Henry Gets Synagis Shot (Round 1)

It finally happened. We went to Henry's secondary pulmonologist, and he received his first Synagis shot. He'll be receiving this shot once a month through April. This is the shot given to minimize complications from RSV if he were to contract it. Before the shot, he was weighed at 6 kgs with his outfit and diaper on. We thought it was way too high an estimate. Carmen, the person giving him the shot, said that there would be no side effects. We were skeptical. Going in, the shot was significantly more painful to Henry than the flu shot. With the flu shot, he just peeped when the needed went in. This shot had a lot more fluid in it. So it hurt more. It took me about 5 minutes to calm him down. Then he was fine.

We spent the morning and afternoon playing. I gave him another baby massage. We headed over to my parents' place in the afternoon. My mom had been cooking all day, preparing for today's feast. So we figured that we'd come to them. We went for a walk around dusk.

Around 8:30PM, I ran out to Babies R Us to get an Angelcare monitoring system for the crib at my parents' house. I also bought Henry a bouncy seat. When I got back, I set up the system. It looks like it will work well. It has a sound feature, which has a range of 300 ft. Henry got a little cranky in the evening. It may have been the shot, or perhaps he hadn't napped long enough. He finally sacked out on my mom. Then, we moved him to the crib for the real test of the monitoring system. Everything seemed to work well. We then headed home.

Henry had a good night. He slept from 10PM to 1AM. As soon as Henry cried out, I went straight to the kitchen to fix the bottle, and Jeff got Henry out of his crib and changed him. Then, he fed Henry while I pumped. We managed to get Henry feed and back to bed relatively quickly. Then, we repeated the process at 4:30AM. It is so nice being able to get 2.5 hours straight sleep. The feeding/changing Henry every 2-3 hours overnight is such a HUGE improvement over his first months home!






We slept later than usual this morning. We didn't go out for our walk until after 9AM. We took a longer route than usual (the Peregine loop). Henry feel asleep about one-third of the way and stayed asleep until we got home. He has had a good morning eating and playing. He weighed 12 lbs 12 ozs. His weight yesterday was 12 lbs 15.5 ozs on our scale. He tried out the new bouncy seat and loved it. It has a play bar on it; when a dangling animal is hit, the waterfall lights up and music starts playing. He had a lot of fun. Other than that, he's been watching football with his dad, which is where he is now. We'll head over to my parents in a few hours for Thanksgiving dinner.