Would you allow them to vaccinate your newborn on day one?

[Anonymous]

Yes of course. We all get our shots as soon as our immune systems are able to use them. Why would I voluntarily make myself or my babies more vulnerable to preventable diseases?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My older kids have all the shots. My 8 month old has zero. Public health and AAP lost all credibility.

Idiot.

[Anonymous]

I’m smarter than blanket recommendations for the lowest common denominator.

I spoke with my pediatricians and OBs about this all before giving birth. I have 3 kids - who I gave birth to in 3 different states and 3 different hospitals. For all of them, they all got the antibiotic eye ointment in the hospital.

For all of them, all of these various doctors always agreed I did not have to do Hep B in the hospital since I was staying home with the baby and no one in our household who would interact with the baby had Hep B. I think I delayed it until each was 1 month old. It would probably be fine to do it in the hospital too. But that’s really a lowest common denominator recommendation so you don’t lose people who never return to the doctor or if you don’t know the Hep B status of who the baby will be around.

My kids are fully vaccinated on everything - and I didn’t do anything else on a different schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s the rush?

This forum is the wrong place to look for answers. Many of the people here will drop everything they're doing to yell at anyone who shares your concerns.

I'd suggest you take some time to read info at the National Vaccine Information Center nvic.org or you can call them with questions.

[Anonymous]

Of course!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the rush?

This forum is the wrong place to look for answers. Many of the people here will drop everything they're doing to yell at anyone who shares your concerns.

I'd suggest you take some time to read info at the National Vaccine Information Center nvic.org or you can call them with questions.

I'm the PP immediately above you. We have a lot of doctor friends and I talked to all of our doctor friends and asked what they do with their own kids (spoiler alert - they all fully vaccinate them).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the rush?

This forum is the wrong place to look for answers. Many of the people here will drop everything they're doing to yell at anyone who shares your concerns.

I'd suggest you take some time to read info at the National Vaccine Information Center nvic.org or you can call them with questions.

I'm the PP immediately above you. We have a lot of doctor friends and I talked to all of our doctor friends and asked what they do with their own kids (spoiler alert - they all fully vaccinate them).

What do your doctor friends think about the state of medical care in US? Link to recent thread that consensus that the medical system is in shambles. Vaccines and schedules are core part of this system.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1136929.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the rush?

This forum is the wrong place to look for answers. Many of the people here will drop everything they're doing to yell at anyone who shares your concerns.

I'd suggest you take some time to read info at the National Vaccine Information Center nvic.org or you can call them with questions.

I'm the PP immediately above you. We have a lot of doctor friends and I talked to all of our doctor friends and asked what they do with their own kids (spoiler alert - they all fully vaccinate them).

What do your doctor friends think about the state of medical care in US? Link to recent thread that consensus that the medical system is in shambles. Vaccines and schedules are core part of this system.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1136929.page

But not what anyone thinks is wrong with the system.

I come from a family full of doctors, they agree there are massive systemic issues at play right now but they are more like

1) For profit medicine makes it impossible for doctors to spend a lot of time with patients
2) Litigious patients have made it so doctors have to spend an incredible amount of time documenting appointments and have created a situation where doctors want to take no risks and do everything exactly by the book to protect themselves
3) Patients, exhausted by the pandemic and empowered by the internet, think of themselves as mini doctors and want their doctors to just do what they tell them and aren't seeking actual expertise

The vaccine schedule is not what is broken with modern medicine. That is a modern miracle that has saved a generation's worth of children.

[Anonymous]

I thought they gave them all a vitamin K shot at birth. And eye drops.

[Anonymous]

I hate that Hep B is so early. I don't think it makes sense. But we did it for both kids before leaving the hospital.

[Anonymous]

Of course. Children dying of preventable illnesses is so 1900s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate that Hep B is so early. I don't think it makes sense. But we did it for both kids before leaving the hospital.

But what do you hate about it? What is the downside?

Now, go read about Hep B and what it does to children. Who contracts it? The unvaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My older kids have all the shots. My 8 month old has zero. Public health and AAP lost all credibility.

So you don’t take your kids to a pediatrician anymore? Or you think they’re only wrong about vaccines, but right about other things?

[Anonymous]

Vitamin K at birth is given to prevent infants developing severe bleeding issues (infants are born with low doses of Vitamin K)
Hepatitis B is often given during the time in the hospital, if not at that time it can be given at the pediatricians. As far as transmission, Hep B is passed via body fluids, not fecal-oral like Hepatitis A.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate that Hep B is so early. I don't think it makes sense. But we did it for both kids before leaving the hospital.

But what do you hate about it? What is the downside?

Now, go read about Hep B and what it does to children. Who contracts it? The unvaccinated.

I agree with the PP above that if you will be home with your child, and they are not getting very close exposure to large numbers of unknown people, they are not going to come into contact with it. I would be happy for them to get the vax before daycare - I think that makes sense.

Yes the unvaccinated can get it but you still need exposure. I know I don't have Hep B and neither does DH.

The downside is that they are more fragile on Day 1 than even a week later.