The Nicest Paediatrician

It's hard watching your baby cry when she's getting vaccinated. For the most part, the doctors seem sad to do it too but our general attitude is that it must be done and baby will cry.

Unless your paediatrician is like this guy:

E doesn't like it when I use the nasal aspirator on her. So I took a tip from this doctor and turned it into a game (minus the flinging tissues a tree died so that a baby could laugh. Fair trade).

Yeah, turn stuff into games. Babies like that. Now to show this to our paediatrician.

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