S/O Shots at 4 yr or 5 yr well visit?

Yodajo

Our pedi gives the option of getting immunizations at either the 4 or 5 y.o. well visit.  If you had a choice, which would you pick?

I have thought all along that we would just do them at 5 yrs, but now I am wondering if it will just be worse when they're a year older. 

 

hmckeown

We didn't have a choice. Reid just had his at his 5 year appt. This morning. He got the normal 4 plus a flu shot.

In my opinion the year in age didnt really make a difference. He would have had the same reaction to 5 shots last year at age 4. He was frightened but now that we are home he seems to be doing ok. He also had a vision and hearing test.

Luckily, we do not need to have another bog amount of shots until middle school, thank goodness.

I also had a sick appt for Grace while we were there and she got 2 shots and an oral steroid for croup.

It hasn't been fun in this house today!

 

Yodajo

hmckeown:

We didn't have a choice. Reid just had his at his 5 year appt. This morning. He got the normal 4 plus a flu shot.

In my opinion the year in age didnt really make a difference. He would have had the same reaction to 5 shots last year at age 4. He was frightened but now that we are home he seems to be doing ok. He also had a vision and hearing test.

Luckily, we do not need to have another bog amount of shots until middle school, thank goodness.

I also had a sick appt for Grace while we were there and she got 2 shots and an oral steroid for croup.

It hasn't been fun in this house today!

 

Ugh.  That doesn't like a good morning at all.  I feel bad for all of you!

peekaboo716

Our pedi recommends waiting until Age 5. That's what we are doing.

xbrooklyngrl

Our pedi did them this year, she said "might as well get it over with"

and so, we did!

CleoKitty

I'm one of those paranoid freaks who doesn't like giving my kids lots of shots all at once so we split them up: did some at the 4 year appointment, six months later we did another and completed them at the 5 year appointment.

Halo79RN

my pedi said we could do them all at 4yr or 5yr or split them up,

we split them up.  

shopgirl78

4 years but we did public PreK.  I am glad it is over with.  After her 4 year appointment, which was hard but nothing compared to a finger prick she had to get at 4.5!  DD threw down when she had to have her iron checked.  

StarryNight39

xbrooklyngrl:

Our pedi did them this year, she said "might as well get it over with"

and so, we did!

This. I figured why not, why wait another year when we could just do it then. It sucked but it is going to suck regardless!

StarryNight39

xbrooklyngrl:

Our pedi did them this year, she said "might as well get it over with"

and so, we did!

This. I figured why not, why wait another year when we could just do it then. It sucked but it is going to suck regardless!

Grantand

I don't really think it would have made much difference, but I picked the 4yo visit because I didn't want anything "negative" associated with going to school. Like, "Oh, yay, you get to go to Kindergarten - here's a bunch of needle pricks to celebrate!" I'm sure I put waayyy too much thought into it, but that combined with the just-get-it-over-with sentiment led me to the decision to do it at 4. And now I'm glad I did, as I'm finding that he is getting more and more dramatic in his old age, haha.

Kapalua

ours does them at 5.  If I had the choice?  I'd probably wait-I like to put off the inevitable.

aside-I totally remember getting shots right before kindergarten and how much they HURT.