All my life when I thought about having a child of my own, I only thought of the great experiences that would be had. Getting to witness milestones like holding them for the first time, seeing their first steps, hearing them say "Daddy" for the first time, getting to take him to his first basketball game and so on. I mention all this because no one tells you that you will have to go through moments with your child that you wish didn't have to experience. In this particular case I am talking about Hudson having to get his Immunization Shots. I ABSOLUTELY HATE THEM! 

     Now I know that these shots are suppose to protect my child from all these crazy diseases that are floating around. But aren't there safer ways to protect our children rather than shooting them up with these vaccines? These are the things that I'm concerned with but we will not get into that here, that is a conversation for me and my wife. Being a parent now, I give everything the side eye. I don't trust anything anymore. Who the hell knows what they are trying to do to us now. Hell we are eating genetically modified foods that are causing cancer in millions of people around the world. That is why my wife and I pray against anything in  these shots that may be harmful to our baby boy! Anywho,  let me not get into that on this post and lets get back to why I hate these shots so much. 

     Seeing your kids reaction to these shots is the main reason that I hate them, then its how it makes him react afterwards. To hear your kid cry like you've never heard broke my heart the first time we had to take Hudson. Today we had to go back for his 6 month shots and I think this one was the worst. I was holding him while the nurse was giving him the shots and he was screaming and gave me this look as if to say "Dad why are you letting them do this to me? HELP ME!" I almost cried with him. (DAMMIT! I just got sad thinking about it again.) Those are moments that I wish I didn't have to experience. Those are the moments that you don't think about when you think about having a child of your own. We all know that getting shots sucks but to see your child have to get them is the worst. Then Hudson isn't himself after getting the shots. He usually sleeps for hours afterwards. Normally this would be a great thing but this isn't. Then when he wakes up he usually looks bummed out. My wife and I are so bummed out after these shots. Its like we have done our baby wrong. It takes awhile to shake the bummed out feeling. The only cure is to see Hudson get back to his wild self again.

Needless to say I welcome the day when Hudson is done getting shots. Until then I will stress and hate these days. 

Oh and he is teething! (Thats a whole other post)