I’ve decided I’m going to be blogging about parenting.  Not that I’m a pro, but I’ve enjoyed reading other people’s trials and lessons they have learned.  I might as well contribute some of my own.  I was trying to avoid the parenting blog for some reason – I think I’ve been avoiding that last dive into 100% parenting.  But there’s no avoiding it – I’m a parent!  (It’s apparent I’m a parent.)

We went for Nyima’s first round of vaccines this morning.  I procrastinated and skimmed through Dr. Sears ‘Vaccine Book’ last night at about 10pm.  I’m too steeped in science to forgo any vaccinations – we vaccinate against those diseases for a reason, and I would never forgive myself if she somehow caught one of them because I didn’t vaccinate her for it.  But I didn’t like the idea of her going in and getting 4 shots at a time – she’s only 13 pounds for cryin’ out sakes!  It seemed much more likely that she would have some sort of reaction to the vaccines when she’s pumped full of so many.  So I decided to use Dr. Sears’ alternate vaccine schedule, where I pretty much take her in every month but she only gets a couple shots at a time.  She’s vaccinated for the things that effect infants first, then we’ll vaccinate for the other things later.  So she’ll get all her vaccines, just not all lumped together.  I feel good about the decision, and was happy that the pediatrician was okay with it.  They even had a copy of the vaccination schedule from the book at the office that they put in her chart so the nurses could keep track of where we are with the shots.  Pretty cool.  I was overwhelmed when I thought about looking at the vaccine issue, because it seems to be a hot topic lately.  But in the end, it wasn’t so bad.  The Dr. Sears’ books are awesome, though.  I look in ‘The Baby Book’ all the time, and the vaccine book was very helpful.  I highly recommend it.

I was crazy nervous about her getting the shots!  I was picturing her screaming and crying and carrying on.  But one of the vaccines was oral, and she sucked that down no problem.  So she only had to get one shot, and when they gave it to her she cried for about 2 seconds and then was done.  She was asleep before I could get to the counter to check out!  I was very relieved.  She’s been sleeping ever since, just woke up to eat then went right back to sleep.  It’s sort of nice…

She weighed 13 lbs 5 oz today, and is 23.5 inches tall.  She’s in the 90th percentile for height, weight, and her noggin’ – I guess she’s just a big kid!  We have been calling her ‘chubs’ after all…

I’m supposed to have one of her babysitters come this afternoon to do a trial run, but I’m thinking I’ll see if she can come Friday instead.  I think I’m going to want to keep an eye on Nyima to make sure she’s okay from this morning.  Also, if someone gets an easy day of her sleeping it’s gonna be me!!!!