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12 month vaccinations
ladybug122
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Someone told me yesterday that 2 of the vaccines that are given at 12 months are live vaccines, and make babies sicker than other vaccines.
Does anyone have more info on this? Also, how did your LOs react to the 12 month shots? Clara has gotten sick and fevers each time she gets vaccines so now I'm super nervous about how she'll react to this next bunch. Was your baby's reaction to the 12 month shots the same or different from previous reactions?
As always, thank you ladies for your helpful input! Hope you all are having a good Friday!
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Re: 12 month vaccinations
We are doing a modified vaccine schedule, but DS got two shots at his 12 month appointment. He got the 4th and final Prevnar and his 2nd Polio. The nurse said that babies who have a rough time with their first prevnar generally have a rough time with their 4th. We have been lucky enough to not have any serious reactions with any vaccines, but I've always said that if we did have a bad experience we would refuse that vaccine in the future.
Maybe you could talk to your doctor about spacing them out even more? Perhaps do one shot at the visit and return in a month or so for the second.
Trust your gut.
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Yeah, they are both live. DS won't be getting either on Monday. We will wait on MMR, but probably won't do varicella(chicken pox) ever. I think well wait til closer to a year and a half, possibly two, to do MMR.
It is interesting that giving MMR at 12 months is a more recent thing. You can go to the CDC's website and see previous vaccine schedules from the 80s to the early 90s
He did not get the pox shot at this appt. I think he will get that one at his 15 month.
Liv don't really get fevers from the vaccines. Well the one time I can remember was low fever, up to 102 which resolved in a few hours.
She did fine with the 12 month vaccine though we were also forewarned about what could happen. Nothing did but now that I think about it, she was throwing up once a day for several days. No fevers. Not sure now if that was due to the vaccines.
Good luck!
Yes, we had chicken pox and MMR at our 12 month visit and both were live vaccines. DD was grumpy for a few days and got a large red lump where the chicken pox vaccine was. But, no fever.
This was different at 2 months she had no reaction besides sleeping a lot. At 4 months she ran a fever and slept more. At 6 months we had no reaction.