So yesterday I had to take Noah for his 2nd lot of immunisations. As usual he fell asleep in the pram almost straight away. We had a short wait in the clinic and then we were called into the nurses room. He was sound so I took him out of the pram and asked if she wanted me to pull his trousers down. He's still snoring his head off. We had a bit of a wait waiting for a 2nd nurse to come through. As they do 2 injections they like to do them at the same time. Eventually the 2nd nurse comes through and takes one look at Noah and says....aww it seems a shame to wake him up. The first nurse says I don't think we're going to. So they do all the checks on the injections and come over. I have Noah on my lap snoring away and I pin his arms to his sides just in case he does wake up. The nurses bend down and the first one counts...1, 2, 3 and on 3 they inject him. I felt him stiffen up and he gave a yell for all of about 3 seconds and he went back to sleep....if he ever woke up properly. I think its safe to say he wasn't that bothered.
Today Mum wanted to go to the Range to see if they had a vase the same as one we have for her freshly decorated living room. I have brought a lightweight stroller that lays back for when we are out and about in other peoples cars. When we got to the Range Noah was again soundo in his car seat. He wasn't best impressed with being taken out of his car seat and put into the stroller. I've used the stroller quite a few times with him and not had a problem. But from the moment we walked in the shop he was upset. Not screaming but crying and moaning. I couldn't understand why. We ended up having to hold his hand all round the shop....not an easy feat when the stroller is one that faces the front. The only time that Noah calmed down was when he was holding our hands. Normally in shops he is fine and all I could think that it was was because he was facing away from us he couldn't hear us talking and he was getting scared of all the noise. When Mick got home from work I told him what had happened. He said it was because it was a warehouse type of shop. As one of the guys he looks after who is blind has a very similar reaction in similar shops. Sadly I don't think that there is a lot I can do to help him with this and I am hoping that he'll get used to it eventually as so many shops these days are the warehouse type.
Up until then I had been doing well for a good few days. I don't forget that he can't see but when he is his happy, smiley self its so easy to forget that he has problems. I guess because at this age it has very little effect with his day to day life. We've altered somethings to help him but they have become such routine that you don't think that they are any different from what anyone has with their babies. So today was almost a slap in the face and I am guessing a sign of things to come. Luckily he seems to have got over it a lot quicker than I have. We went back to Mums and he was just playing and chatting away. And of course smiling.....his lovely, lovely gummy dribbly smile that melts my heart every time I see it. From now on it isn't worrying about what he wont be able to do....its concentrating on what he can do.
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