6 Month Doctor Visit (controversial)

First of all, the blog is not cooperating.  It won’t let me post pictures in my usual way. So frustrating. And since it’s all about the cute pictures of Brendan, I’m at a loss.  It’s amazing to see how  un-technical I have become.  Or maybe I’m just a little sleepy… we’ve had a few sleepless nights recently, 2.5 to be exact, but The Captain is pretty much back to his normal sleep patterns now. Either way, tomorrow I’m going to bribe one of my technical geniuses at work to help me figure out the blog problems.

Friday Brendan had his 6 month doctors visit.  We were particularly looking forward to it because after the tough week he had, we wanted to get him a once over.  The doctor checked his ears and all his parts – and said that aside from a few dry spots on his legs,  he is totally 100%  healthy.  She had no particular insight as to why he kept us up other than hypothesizing that he might be having a growth spurt or working on some major milestone.  She even busted our hopes that all the lack of sleep was due to tooth creation by telling us she saw no signs.

We did, however, find out that we can start giving him more exciting foods! (no nuts, honey, etc…) but pretty much anything we are eating as long as it’s mashed up.  We are going to have fun!  We also learned that Brendan is now starting to live up to what was expected of him in the womb – he was at 17 pounds, 10 ounces – and 27 3/4 inches long.  This puts him at the 50th percentile for weight, and the 80th percentile for height!  Meredith will be so pleased.  He still can’t reach things on the tall shelves for me, but it should be any day now.

The last part of the visit included 1 oral vaccine, and 3 shots.  And this is where the controversy begins.  I took a movie.  Then I shared it with my family.  My Mom knew that we were eating out for dinner, but suddenly she was calling Rob’s phone, so we were concerned that there might be an emergency.  We answered, and Grandma proceeded to beg me not to put that horrible movie on the blog. She said that she was in tears, and that if she had been in that doctors office, she would have turned around and given me a shot right on my behind for even taking that movie.

This is Brendan’s third or fourth round of shots.  They always make me cringe.  As I’ve said many times, I would give anything to take away all of Brendan’s pain – past, present and future – and it’s particularly heart wrenching when you can’t explain to him why he has to hurt.  So why did I decide to film it this time? I guess the answer is that in some way, I find this beautiful.  Not his pain – but that he is experiencing something for almost the first time.  Pain instead of pleasure or intrigue this time around – but pain for good. He is experiencing something that almost every child endures – an insurance policy against disease.  As a child, I know you don’t get that concept.  I remember every time I went to the doctor I lived in fear of the dreaded shot.  But the other thing I see in this video is Daddy right next to him, comforting him, loving him – and telling him that he is doing a good job and that it’s going to be alright.  And what you don’t see when this movie abruptly ends, is Rob scooping him up to hand this screaming baby over to his Mother.  You can’t see the way I held him close and pressed his little face against mine so that I could feel his real tears and whisper in his ear that he would feel better soon.  That it hurt now but it was for a reason.  To remind him the same thing I did when he didn’t sleep for three nights – that we are in this together.  That his family is his team and that we will experience not only all the good times, but also the hard times together – that he will never be alone. 

I feel all that when I watch this movie.  And as much as I hate to see him cry – even this moment is precious to me.  As was the moment an hour later when he woke up from his nap smiling and laughing and talking to me as we walked along together as a team.
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So I’m posting it!  Because this isn’t my first controversial post.  My Father-in-law is still begging me to take down the photos of his Grandson’s frontal nudity.  I know, I’m pretty hard core.  So Grandma – move on to the next post and soak up your happy adorable Grandson.  And everyone else, watch at your own risk.  It’s not for the faint of heart.

BTW – I asked my Mom what her biggest issue with this video was – and she said that I was filming rather than comforting my son.  I seemed to remember a certain picture from a certain doctors visit when I was a little girl, and got my Dad to help produce the evidence.  Funny… it seems like my Mom is taking the picture, yet who is comforting poor little Lori?  Clearly Brendan outranks me.  And that’s just how I would want it. Sorry Mom. Next time I won’t film.