Monday, October 17, 2011

Vaccination

Today Liko got his first shot...vaccination against diphteria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio and pneumococcal disease. He is now 10 weeks old. Usually babies get their first shot at 8 weeks, but we needed time to think. There are many stories about the side effects, some of them really serious. But on the other hand: there are so many kids who don't experience any side effects at all. I guess it's because of Kalle and the whole medical circus that it just doesn't feel right to inject something into such a young baby. We kind of lost our trust in medical science.
But Liko was brave. He only cried for a couple of seconds. Let's hope he will be fine the rest of the day.

There was another milestone today: he put a toy in his mouth for the first time.




During the last week he played with his hands a lot and now he apparently realized that his hands are not the only tasty thing...