] Re: hard time with blood drawn

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We didn't try the EMLA. It does get better. Always harder when they're little.

We stick with cost effective labs these days.

It's the fear of going that's worse for him now.

We talked about it & he squeezed my hand.  He still sits in my lap at

11.  He cried some but did  fine for the 1st time & said it wasn't that bad.

I think we got a talented lab person to boot.

Kathy

From: Pamela H <phaselow@...>

Subject: [ ] Re: hard time with blood drawn

 

I agree it just gets better.

EMLA made no difference for my child. He was just scared. He agreed it didn't

hurt.

He still doesn't like it, and will nearly hyperventilate (but sit still), but he

doesn't fight. I try to draw blood as little as possible because I realized I

wasn't really monitoring anything critical...just maybe getting some pleasure

out of seeing labs and thinking I was getting somewhere.

I do know there are kids who need real monitoring, don't get me wrong. I just

think most of our kids don't.

Pam