Lily at the doctor's

[garotadoslabiosdemel]

I have a curiosity. It was this same doctor applied the shots? When Lily began to cry, she tried to calm her daughter? Tks!

[mattfinnish]

@garotadoslabiosdemel This is her mother practicing with her. The doctor was not as gentle or loving.

[MelanieRaye89]

she is precious!

[kool2104]

Aww! Thats such of nicee mommy!

[moodymoose]

That was a great idea to practice the shots. You have good parenting skills.

[fishinawafflemaker]

aww she is so cute... she looks tough... how did the real shots go? I know she's 8 now, but I'd like to know, to see if this is good for if I ever have kids. do you have a vid of the real ones? You have a very good method, though. She looks fearless. please reply, thanks!

[mattfinnish]

@fishinawafflemaker: it turned out to be a good method for getting her through the anticipation, but the real ones still made her cry and we felt like we'd betrayed her. She looked at us through the tears with a "how could you do this to me? I trusted you" kind of look. It was always hard. Thanks for the nice comments.

[mattfinnish]

@fishinawafflemaker: I just remembered one other thing. Just a couple of years ago, we discoverd this cream called Emla that takes care of this. You rub it on the skin where the shot is going to go about an hour before and by the time of the shot, it's painless. It was suggested to us by the pharmacist at Seattle Children's Hospital and we've used it for every shot since.

[carmelade66]

How the way she says "outchies" every time she gets a shot.

[hitchhiker38]

Lol I was gonna say, "Wow shes hard as nails, not letting that needle phase her!" Then I realised it wasn't a real needle. lol

[sneakers55]

Kids get a lot more shots than they did a half-century ago, but the needles are better now. I just relax, close me eyes, and there's just a tingle. Occasionally, I'll get a sore spot.

[333pinkitty]

Awwww

[sneakers55]

@Star13570 I don't look and I've had my share of needles. (Statistically, seven per year per person. I run up four just donating blood and that's a big one.)

[MegaUnfunny]

haha good idea :) this is great when i have kids i'll definitely be doing this

[Loveblessing1]

I could click like on the video but i hate needles....Ow

[aaronxandxbobxshow]

damb that luked painful

[elitegamebeast2]

That is exactly wats gonna happen if u dont count crying

[villezlovrgrl666]

awwwwwwwwww hahaha she is soooo adorable

[juliefisher4000]

This isn't relevant but are you really Finnish, mattfinnish?

[mattfinnish]

@juliefisher4000: nope. just a photography pun

[YARET054]

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[sistergirl4649000]

did she cry

[mattfinnish]

@sistergirl4649000 : yes

[mattfinnish]

@sistergirl4649000: yes

[afrundzhyan75]

This is very,very,very,smart that you practice with you child so he or she won't be sooooooo much scared of the doctor or shots,my late mom always gave me my shots on my butt as a baby & a teenager,then after that my body got used to shots,you have to get ypur shots step by step,no I'm 34 my body is used to shots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[capierce]

Smart of you to practice that with her

[TheRascalFlattsfan6]

fake shots are better! none likes it, but sometimes they just have to get shots!

[stillrightorwrong]

How beautiful is your little girl!! The practice shot is such a good idea! It's so sweet when she says Oucheeeeee!

[fanpai]

this give me idea for my hospital visit.. doing rounds at pediatrics wards and giving shots is not easy... i could try this method... hope this could help me when giving shots...

[SuperJusfighta2]

im almost 34 and i still hate getting shots

[jazzybeck123]

OUCHII333333333333333 LOL

[rachaelmarie123]

are those real shots

[J06101190]

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[iluvNickJonashesHOTT]

she looks kind of like my science teahcers daughter Zoey

[carebearnmbr46]

Aw she's a cutie! She reminds me of myself when I was little, the way she has her pink teddy bear with her. I have a pink teddy bear that I've had since I was two and I would never go anywhere without her when I was little.

[monkeygrl314]

was she scared after that?

[mattfinnish]

She wasn't scared, but the real shots did hurt. She was very upset, but OK after a little while.

[Star13570]

I hated my first booster shot, I didn'yt even know what the heck happened when they did it. It was funny that the pain didn't make me upsaet, jus tthe sight of the needle in my arm XD.

[xxSureRainbowxx]

that was cute

[ilohotpassiongirls]

he he, so sweet ~

[lovablegrl03]

I like your style of parenting.. Thats very smart run through it before the real thing

[bunnyz324]

is this a toy needle

[mattfinnish]

It is. Her Mom was just practicing with her so it wouldn't be so bad. It was still pretty bad. :-(

[az09mcr]

iof only that worked 4 me sigh

[xxbox619]

was there pain next day?

[mattfinnish]

None the next day, but plenty when she got the real shots about 10 minutes after this practice session.

[Doogleburg08]

now if every child was like that when they get a shot lol!

[mattfinnish]

Thanks for the comments. We can't believe that this clip has been viewed over 27,000 times! It's always bothered me that the picture and sound didn't stay in sync when I uploaded it, but I didn't want to repost it and kill the running count.

[starkeko]

is there a vid of her actually getting the shot? do u no how well this technique actually works? my lil bro always cries when he gets his shots, and hes about 4 too...

[mattfinnish]

There isn't. I had to use both hands to hold her to get her to stop crying. :( The thing about this was that she knew, more than any other time before, what was coming. That and they just kept coming... three in one visit. We kind of felt like we'd betrayed her, too. She got some princess stickers and was OK by the time we got in the car.

[starkeko]

aw i feel so bad for her!

[FattyNatty89]

this is cute. =)

[richman726]

My mother use to do that with my sister when she was 5 and it worked great...good job!

[kendra11146]

she probably wont notice the diffrence beetween the fake and the real syringe

[HSM5295]

she is cute.

[chefd907]

thtas a good techqunique so that the child wont be so scared.

[KevinDanielAllen]

Congratulation for emotionally training your daughter to handle this experience that can be traumatic to a child (and all throughout their life) if adults are insensitive. This way the child knows what's coming and knows it is O.K. to express her feelings by saying "ouchie". All in all, this demystifies the injection and turns it into a game. Way to go.

[rachelrulz]

I have the same doctors kit with the same shot!!

[babygirl98626]

my mom neeeds to take my lil brothers docters kit and take the pretend shot out and do that tequnique

[lollypopgirl121]

My mom needs to do this with my 6 year old brother