Helpless

There's nothing worse, I've discovered, than having your child be in pain and not being able to do anything about it. Charlotte had her 2 month vaccines today. She didn't do too bad while getting the shots (3 total in her upper thighs). She did cry pretty bad when getting the shots but stopped soon after and was fine until about 5 hours later when the tylenol had worn off and we had forgotten to give her more. She must have cried her poor little heart out for about a half hour before finally being so exhausted she fell asleep for about two hours. We're not talking the cute little "I'm hungry" crying, or the "I have a dirty nappy" crying. This was all out "I'm in pain and not feeling good!" crying. I have never ever seen her cry so hard for so long. I was actually in tears because I felt so bad for her and we had done everything we could think of to help her. More tylenol, changed her diaper, put cold compresses on her legs where she had the shots. It was absolutely awful and heart wrenching. It was almost like she was screaming.....it was so bad. She's doing fine now though as long as we keep remembering to give her tylenol. Hopefully she'll sleep ok tonight....otherwise tomorrow is going to be a long day....