The doctor examined his ears since he's been rubbing his left ear. She used a long skinny tool with a loop at the end to remove some wax build up. He hated having his head held down. He cried because he was being held down, not so much because wax was being removed.
She then checked out all his body parts and after taking off his diaper, he wet all over her like a big fountain. It soaked the paper on the table and he got her really good. Her hands were dripping wet. So while she cleaned herself up, I cleaned up Evan, who was surprisingly dry since he shot it so far out. The doctor said "Evan 1, Doctor Parra 0."
Then the nurses came in. Evan has to have a thyroid base line at 6 months old, so they had to draw blood. Only since he's bigger, they used a vein in his arm and no longer use his foot. They wrapped a tourniquet around his upper arm. One nurse held his arm very tightly, at which point he really started crying hard. Then the other nurse drew his blood. I couldn't tell that he was crying any harder when she stuck him because he was already crying over being held down. But he started letting up before she was done drawing the blood, so that was good.
He got an oral vaccine, which he spit a lot of it out, and then he got a shot in his thigh, which he cried about again. So he had 3 big cries at the doctor's office.
They made us wait 15 minutes in the lobby after shots to make sure he has no reaction. He was happy enough to be out of that room so we fed him his cereal and bottle in the waiting room.
Overall, he is a healthy little 6 month old!
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