Maddy's 4 month appointment

Maddy's 4 month dr appointment went SO much better than the last one. After the last round of shots she screamed for 3-4 hours. She was inconsolable and not even nursing her would calm her down. When Danny got home, we were both crying. I called the nurse line because the excessive crying was not normal and was basically told that this was a good indication of my child's pain tolerance! Oh yeah, I was like say what? This is my third child and none have reacted this way. I also told her she needed to read her literature because excessive non-stop crying was a sign of a severe reaction! grrr.. Anyway, I had already made up my mind we would now delay shots and not take 3+ at a time! So, this time she got Roto and DTaP/HIB combo which resulted in only 1 shot. She has not cried at all! I told Dino (her ped) what happened last time and with the phone call. He laughed about the nurse not having much tact. He said the calls after 5 go to some nurses answering service in Chapel Hill. Dino thought she could have reacted to DTaP or even Prevnar. He also thought it could have been the way the injection was given and it was possible they hit bone. ugh....poor baby. Dino is great though. There are some things I do differently from mainstream and he is pro natural living and I love it. He is very knowledgeable on natural products and such. I told him we'd be in Tuesday for a well child with my eczema child. He didn't recommend starting cereal (which is GREAT), but I wasn't going to start it anyway. I plan to do child led solids especially since it all went downhill with Ian once we started rice cereal! Maddy is growing nicely. :-) She weighed 15 pounds 2 ounces and was 24 3/4 inches long (50-75 percentile for both). We go back in a month for Prevnar.