Post-Immunization Effects

After the long doctor's visit, Hannah crashed as soon as I put her in the car. I wanted to run about some more and get stuff done (like grocery shopping), but I felt that her napping was more important. She had already been up for 2.5 hours from the time I woke her up to take her to the check-up, so we headed home.

She barely stirred as I transferred her from the car seat to her bed. Then she proceeded to sleep for a total of 4 hours from when she first crashed! There were bits of waking with cries in-between, but she would fall back into sleep quickly. That's a pretty long nap for her. Afterwards she was as happy as can be. She played and hung out with mommy & daddy.

I thought I could get away without Tylenol this time because Hannah seemed to be doing well. Alas, I was mistaken. We got her ready for bed and put her down for the night, but she kept on waking up every 20-30 minutes screaming. Finally between 10:30-11pm, when I was trying to get her back to sleep, I realized she was burning up. She hadn't been that hot previously. We immediately gave her Infant's Tylenol. We took her temperature, and it was basically 101 F. We kept her up for a bit and her temp eventually came down, but it was a rather fitful night for all of us. I was dead this morning, and DH wasn't much better off because he had to be up early (for a Saturday) to work with Habitat for Humanity.