Sudden Change…

Previously on My Treasure Basket’s - Keeping Cedric Safe, I talked about Cedric getting these 2 vaccines. Well, he just did. He just got immunized with 2 vaccines: Infanrix Hexa and IPD. Infanrix Hexa is a vaccine used to prevent six diseases: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, poliomyelitis and Haemophilus influenzae type b. The other one is IPD (Invasive Pneumococcal Disease) which will protect Cedric against pneumonia and most of all meningitis. These were injected all in one session. After that, Cedric was already getting higher than his normal temperature varying from 37.1 to 37.4. It is not that high though to call it fever but I was already worried. Second, he will only sleep for 10 to 15 minutes and then wakes up again. I think he also have a problem in digestion because he always regurgitate more than what he usually does. Worst of all, he cries hard almost every 2 or 3 minutes when since birth he only cries when his hungry. For me, I can count this as one of the most difficult times of me being a mother watching my baby cry and not understanding what it is making him uncomfortable and not knowing what to do to ease him after I have tried everything to make him secure. I guess during these times, the only thing I can do is to always be attentive to the changes of his body and his needs and most of all pray and trust in the Lord that these sudden changes are just effects of a normal body reaction to forming a whole new strong immune system.