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3rd Trimester
vaccinations?
what are your plans for them? Im just starting to research it all. Are you all getting them all at birth or as baby gets older as needed rather than all at once when they are so tiny? Also if you know of any good resources with info about it all please post links! thanks 
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Re: vaccinations?
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What? That's...not a thing.
I am definately having a little anxiety over it...
I will have it spaced alittle more than the regular schedule..I dont believe my hospital does any vaccinations and if they do I will have them hold off.
We plan on vaccinating and will do so according to the schedule our doctor suggests/provides.
We both will also be getting the pertussis vaccine--as the baby can't get that until he is 2 months old. He will mostly be around us for those 8 weeks--but I may have our immediately family get it as well with the increase of cases.
I am glad you said this b/c the OP had me confused. OP, you do realize that they don't get all their shots at once, right. I so don't want to sound like I am picking on you b/c I am not. Vacc are spread out over a certain amount of time. There is a trad schedule and some parents prefer alternative schedules (check out Dr. Sears), but they don't do them all at once. Some even opt to not do them at all (don't even get me started on that one...).
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I know I shouldn't but for some reason this made me LOL.
Agreed. Wait, where's Cloudy? I'm sure she has something to say about this.
We followed the traditional schedule and got all recommended shots.
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Might I add--that every medical association etc has concluded that vaccines do not cause autism and that not vaccinating your baby/child in the future puts them at risk and also other kids/people...diseases that we have had eradicated are now popping up all over because of how many kids are not vaccinated that go to daycare and school etc.
I totally read this as "pooping up".
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The bolded part is why it makes me so, so angry when people don't vacc. My favorite was when a friend of mine on FB asked about vacc and the alternative scheduling. It, of course, got heated and one woman proudly exclaimed how her 2 year had no vacc and never got sick, so she didn't see the point. That comment pretty much shut down that thread. I don't think anyone knew what to say.
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I'm probably going to refuse the Hep B vaccine at birth. We can do it later. I don't believe in any hype, I just don't believe it's necessary for all newborns. If there are risk factors for exposure soon after birth that I'm not aware of, we will reconsider.
Other than that, I have no problem with the traditional schedule, and I'll be glad to know my child is protected the best we know how.
Definately agree with this on the Hep B - unless you've got it yourself it's not necessary at birth.
However, my biggest suggestion is to read Dr. Sear's Vaccine Book. He's very unbiased about giving reasons both for and against vaccines as well as providing an alternative schedule if you're interested. Knowledge is power and all that so even if you do go for the regular schedule it's a good idea to know what you can going into it!
Dr. Sears has no training in vaccines and says so in a disclaimer in his books. He's simply giving his opinion. I'd trust the AAP and CDC and thousands of credible research studies over this one doctor any day. There is no proof that "alternate schedules" are safe at all. It's just delaying protecting your child.
It just baffles me that people get all worked up over their child having a fever for a day, when they are protecting them against deadly diseases that used to wipe out populations. Maybe we should have a nice epidemic like our grandparents witnessed. Then maybe people will open their eyes.
Not necessarily true. Most cases in kids have parents who do not have hep B [because the ones who have parents with hep B are getting the vaccine and the immunoglobin at birth]. My peds suggested that we get it because DS would be in daycare at a young age [10 weeks] so he could be exposed there.
Having a fever for a day would be considered a pretty darn mild vaccine reaction in our house. We've had 1 visit to the ER and most vaccines are at least 2 days of high fever and several night terrors. And that's still pretty mild compared to what some people experience.
I'm not opposed to vaccines and we get all of them (we're not even that far off the CDC schedule) but at the very least I want to be able to identify which vaccines cause which reactions.
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We followed the regular schedule, with one exception.
We split the chicken pox vaccine and MMR vaccine. Since both are known to have delayed reactions I want to only worry about one at at time. We did chicken pox at 15 months (no reaction) and MMR at 18 months (102 fever for 3 nights and rash on trunk -a week after shot). Minor reactions, but glad we split them so I knew exactly what I should be expecting.
Besides like OPs have said, minor reactions for a couple days are way better than what would happen with the actual diseases.
I have no problem with a parent using a delayed schedule, just remember that that means extra visits and you need to keep on top of making sure you are still getting all the shots. Some parents say they are doing delayed and then don't stay on top of it and end up with their kids basically unvaccinated.
Yea, but unfortunately, there is a way around this...ticks me off.
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We followed the traditional vaccination schedule for DD1 and will do the same for DD2. The only shot we delayed was the Hep B shot--DD got it at her 1-month checkup instead of at birth.
We will be vaccinating according to the traditional schedule as well. It was also important to me that we find a pedi who did not take any unvaccinated patients (unless there is a real medical reason).
Hell yeah it ticks me off. Their "right" can potentially harm my child. By a parent saying no, I am automatically losing my right to keep my child safe in terms of diseases that vacc protect against.
We aren't talking about circ or whether or not to get the Vit K in the baby's eyes. We are talking about something someone else choosing to do that could potentially put my child in danger. I am seriously surprised that someone would put someone else's rights over the well-being of their own child. Think about what you are saying...
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the reason I said all at once is bc a nurse that was a client of mine recently said that she doesn't recomend we get them all at once, its too much for them when they are so tiny. I think what she meant, and I meant to say is that there are some they CAN wait to have til later but a lot of docs want to do them while you are there. This is why I posted, I'm just starting to learn all the stuff about vaccines, no need to make fun of the blind who are trying to see ladies
this type of plan is what I'm interested in find out more of, thanks for posting.
Vaccines are on my "to research" list. (We're currently TTC.)
One thing I do know is that I will space them out and not get a lot at 1 doctor visit. Heck, my dogs' vet won't even give the dogs more than 2 vaccines at a visit, if they need more than that, we come back 2-3 weeks later. He does this not only to not overload the dog's system, but also because if there is an adverse reaction it's much easier to narrow down the cause.
I'm not anti-vaccine, I just think it seems like the medical world (a) wants to cater to convenience of the parents by loading up on multiple vaccines in 1 visit, and (b) wants to get kids vaccinated for everything under the sun in their first few years because they think parents will slack off as the child gets older. There probably will be some vaccines I will refuse for my child until they are older, hep A, hep B, and varicella come to mind as ones I will likely postpone.
I am confused. How does a non vaccinated child put your vaccinated child at risk? or the public for that matter? If my child gets measels and your child is vaccinated, then whats the problem?
We have done vaccinations for all of the deadly diseases that have fatal reaction rates (you can read the rates yourself in the vaccination insert if you wish) less then the chances of our child contracting and dying of the disease. In other words, we only did meningitis.