Olivia has her first round of immunisations. As I am such a total girl F_ took a half day off work to hold her while they did the injections. Seeing as how he has to hold my hand when I have injections I didn't think i was qualified to hold the baby!! So, I turned away while F_ held her for one injection in each of her lovely chubby thighs. She cried momentarily when each needle went in but soon settled down and went for a nap in the buggy.
What I did think was a bit strange was that the nurse made me look at the bottles with her to verify what was being injected and the expiry dates of the vaccines. Was this somehow supposed to admonish them of any responsibility if they happened to acceidentally inject her with out of date cat flu vaccine? There was of course the added dimension that most people wouldn't have a clue what they were talking about anyway. I had read up on the NHS website and knew that what she was having was:
What I did think was a bit strange was that the nurse made me look at the bottles with her to verify what was being injected and the expiry dates of the vaccines. Was this somehow supposed to admonish them of any responsibility if they happened to acceidentally inject her with out of date cat flu vaccine? There was of course the added dimension that most people wouldn't have a clue what they were talking about anyway. I had read up on the NHS website and knew that what she was having was:
Diptheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and Hib (DTaP/IPV/Hib)
Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)
She has to have the former again plus Meningitis C at 3 months.
Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)
She has to have the former again plus Meningitis C at 3 months.
That's actually kind of nice of them to do that. Here in the States, they do that only (if you have a hospital birth) while you're in the hospital--plus they double-check everyone's ID bracelets at the same time. You may not know exactly what you're reading, but you force them to re-read it as they explain it to you, which is more than they probably used to do before a mistake or two forced this new policy. At any rate, I'm glad to hear that everyone survived the needles.
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