Those Rotten Shots!

At Sophia's 2 month check-up appointment last week I found out that she weighs 11 pounds 4 ounces and is 21.75 inches long. This puts her in the 60th percentile for weight and the 25th for length. I have to say that I think her length measurement is off; I think she's longer than that. The nurses say that it's hard to get the correct measurement because it's difficult to get infants to stretch out to their full length. I was pleased with Sophia's weight gain. This means I can let her sleep as long as she wants at night and not have to feel like I should be waking her up to feed her. She continues to be a great sleeper, sleeping 6-7 hours at night. I was always jealous of those moms who had babies that slept that long, and now I am one! Yeah! As usual the bad part of the appointment was the shots. She had to get four, two in each thigh. Boy, did she scream! I hate those shots because the babies have no idea it's coming or why you're hurting them. Sophia even bled through the band aid and all over my shirt. I don't remember Olivia bleeding at all. Sophia was a trooper and only cried for a few minutes. Not until after her nap did she get fussy, and then she really let me know what she thought about the whole thing. I guess her legs got stiff while she was sleeping because she woke up screaming and did stop for about an hour. I tried massaging her legs and giving her a bath as the doctor suggested, but that only made it worse. I only had Motrin, which I don't think you're supposed to give to infants. I wasn't to thrilled about attempting to take a screaming baby and a toddler to the drug store, so I waited almost 2 hours for Yale to get home from work to give her some Tylenol. As you can imagine it was pretty hard to give Olivia much attention during this time. Overall, she was very patient. While I was getting a bath ready for Sophia, both girls were on the bed in Sophia's room. Sophia was really wailing, and Olivia was eating a snack. When I came into the room to get Sophia, Olivia was saying, "Nice." I wasn't sure why and was so distracted I didn't think much about it. That was until Olivia kept repeating it and I spotted a chunk of her cereal bar in Sophia's mouth. Olivia thought sharing her snack might help her sister feel better! It was a sweet gesture, I'm just glad Sophia didn't choke! Fortunately after the Tylenol kicked in, Sophia was able to take a nap and seemed like she felt much better. Yale took Olivia to the park and gave he lots of attention to reward her for being so patient during this whole ordeal.