I had my son get all his vaccinations on schedule. Even though he’d cry and skitter around the room like a cat when they came in the room with a needle.
Next few times he got over it and eventually it didn’t even bother him to get poked anymore.
I know it’s terrible to see as a parent and comforting them sometimes doesn’t work. You can’t walk out of there just giving up. Shots really suck when you are little, but they are much better than dying from the diseases they prevent.
Some of the most successful pediatricians I’ve seen will poke the baby with the closed syringe several times before and after administering the shot. So that the babies get poked with it non-painfully more times than they get poked with it painfully. From what I’ve seen it seems to work.
I had my son get all his vaccinations on schedule. Even though he’d cry and skitter around the room like a cat when they came in the room with a needle.
Next few times he got over it and eventually it didn’t even bother him to get poked anymore.
I know it’s terrible to see as a parent and comforting them sometimes doesn’t work. You can’t walk out of there just giving up. Shots really suck when you are little, but they are much better than dying from the diseases they prevent.
Some of the most successful pediatricians I’ve seen will poke the baby with the closed syringe several times before and after administering the shot. So that the babies get poked with it non-painfully more times than they get poked with it painfully. From what I’ve seen it seems to work.
Its like innoculating them to vaccinefear