First Shots

Today Eli had his first shots which perhaps was more traumatizing for me than him, as I'm sure it is for most parents. I had obsessed about these immunizations, reading tons about vaccines, the pros and cons, and then making the decision to vaccinate or not was made all the more confusing by our impending trip to return to Ghana where things like Polio still exist. After consulting doctors, doing my research and talking it over with folks, I came to the decision to just to it. There are far too many other things to worry about than the vaccines at this point...like Malaria for example. But, of course, there is still a little twinge of worry...did we make the right decision, what if he has a bad reaction, what if something happens down the road to him and we find out maybe the vaccines were to blame but most of the worries are irrational I know and as I'm learning we cannot control everything that happens.

In the end, I think we handled this milestone pretty well. Grandma Angie was by our side snapping photos and video to document screams, semi-tears, and red faced Eli! Now he's knocked out on me and I assume today will be eating and sleeping, eating and sleeping. At least I know all this eating and sleeping is paying off. The boy weights 15 lbs and is in the 95 percentile of weight and 77 percentile of height!