2 month doctor appointment

Yesterday he weighed in at 13.2 pounds and 23 in. (4 weeks ago he was 8.5 lbs and 21 in.)He is a confirmed Pudge. The nurse weighed him and left...then came back to double check her numbers were right! We're in the 90th percentile. With raised eyebrows and an impressed smile, he said it's nothing to worry about until he's 2 or so, right now all that extra chub is a good and healthy thing. He says it's good for his brain, and if he happened to get sick he'd be in  good shape with the extra buffer. He asked if Rowan was cooing yet, I said he grunts and growls mostly over sweet baby coos. He said that's fine too, as long as he's expressing himself...which he definitely does in his very unique ways!

I had a lot of anxiety over his first vaccines, I read how badly babies can react; the inconsolable screaming at the office, achy thighs, fever, etc. Lots of moms wrote, they'd never heard their baby cry like that, so that is what I was prepared for. He was Mr. Charm for his whole appointment, not one fuss ( a complete 180 since the previous week when I visited Greenwich Music to "show him off"- a total baby meltdown the whole visit). Then the nurse delivered the shots in about 5 seconds. It was done before he even realized what had happened and he cried for about 30 seconds! I asked about baby Tylenol and she said that it's fine to give if he gets fussy or a fever. We could call until 9pm if we had any issues.

We took our little tough guy home, fed him and put him down for a nap. Too easy. He got the shots around 10:30. He woke up from his nap around 2:30, fussed like normal during a diaper change, started walking to the living room to nurse when it became clear that he was noticing the shots. He shrieked and wailed and turned red with every movement of his legs, then he moved his legs more, shrieked more and tested his legs over and over becoming breathless with the wailing..which they were right, was like nothing I'd heard from him before. Doug called the office to get the proper dosage, we got most of it in his mouth then filled his tub with warm water which calms him down and sits him in a way where he can't move his legs so much. The shrieks lessened slightly, the dry-off was a bear. I held him, dreading how long he might be in this state. He carried on for about 5 minutes in my arms and then crashed to sleep while I was holding him. He slept another hour or so and woke up and was pleasant for the rest of the night with only a couple twinges of a scowl when he kicked a leg.