3 Month and 4 Year Checkups

The girls had their checkups on the 6th. They both checked out healthy. Peanut had 5 vaccinations and Sweet Pea had 4. They both did fairly well (better than expected) with the shots. Here they are after.

Nothing a little nursing and a sucker couldn't fix. Their poor little legs looked like pin cushions.

Here are their stats:

Sweet Pea - Height 38 3/4 inches (75th percentile)

Weight - 30.5 pounds (50th percentile) and we worked hard for that

Peanut - Height 23 1/4 inches (50th percentile)

Weight 12.15 pounds (75th percentile)

Head 16 inches (75th percentile)

Late that night, Peanut was having a horrible time, despite the Tylenol we were giving her. She wouldn't sleep or eat, was running fever and screaming almost non-stop. I finally called the on-call pediatrician to see if there was anything more we could do. That's when I found out the nurse had told us the wrong dosing and she could be getting twice what we had been giving her. Once we got her the right dose she nursed and passed out. She slept pretty well that night.

The next day she was fine, but I noticed a spot on Sweet Pea's leg. It was around her thigh from the injection site. One of her shot sites had swollen up and was very red and fevered (about 3 or 4 inches around). The spot to the side looked like a blister. I called the doctor and they said it was a chicken pock from the chicken pock vaccine. Very strange. In about three days it popped and that was the end of it. Sweet Pea loved showing everyone her "one little chicken pock".