I let a nurse stick needles in him, that's what. He's had his first two immunisations (see full schedule on the NHS immunisations site) and my goodness it's hard. He was having a nice peaceful sleep when the first jab went in one leg, and he woke up and shouted with outrage. I cuddled him to calm him and then the nurse put in the second jab and he screamed furiously and went scarlet - clearly outraged that we could do such a thing again. I cuddled and fed him while we spent the obligatory 5 minutes under observation by the nurse, and he went to sleep. He was fretty at lunchtime shortly afterward but again a feed sent him off to sleep, where he stayed for several hours.

He woke up around 4 just as I got in the house and cried almost constantly apart from the 5-10 minutes when I was feeding him until either the cuddles or the Calpol sent him to sleep around 5. I've put him in a disposable nappy because the site of one of the jabs is red and sore (not unexpected) and the nappy wrap seemed to be rubbing on it. He very definitely wants to be held all the time, and even just moving him away from my body a little caused the weeping to increase dramatically. At least the sling holds him close against me while freeing up a hand or two.

Before the jabs he had his "6 week" checkup by the GP and passed everything. He's now a whopping 5.74kg and 63cm long, and responsive in all the expected ways. I have some topical antibiotic gel for my ongoing scar infection. If it doesn't clear it up we'll move to an oral version, but this way avoids affecting my milk at least for now. I also had some swabs taken in preparation for having a new Mirena fitted.

Yesterday the health visitor came to check on us both, and gave me a questionnaire to fill out to see if I was at risk of post-natal depression. It came as no surprise that I'm not. She won't visit again unless I call her for help, and congratulated me on having things "so much under control".