When did you do first hep b shot for new baby?

[Anonymous]

Just curious. How long did you wait to get first hep b shot for new baby?

[Anonymous]

When the hospital told me to do so.

Peds here.

[Anonymous]

At birth

[Anonymous]

For my first, day 5. For my second, who spent over a month in the NICU, at week 4.

[Anonymous]

I think 24 hours? Whenever the hospital gave it. It's all a blur. No one could ever give a good reason to wait, and it is just easiest to go with the schedule. (And no, "just feeling like he was so little" didn't seem a good reason to wait.).

[Anonymous]

My kid was Hep B exposed, so getting the shot on time on his first day of life was hugely important. The success rate of the shot in preventing maternal-child transmission is pretty much 100%.

[Anonymous]

When the hospital said to. Day 1 or 2 I guess?

[Anonymous]

No risk here so we waited till the first chance at the ped's office. I think that was 1 month. An added bonus was that all of the records are at the same place.

[Anonymous]

I did it at the ped's office, around 4 weeks.

I'm very pro-vax, but that one is given at birth for social reasons, not medical ones (with obvious exceptions like pp's situation). The population most at risk are the ones least likely to get all their immunizations, so it's on the schedule to be given at birth. I personally wasn't comfortable giving permission for it before he was born, so we just waited to do it with the pediatrician.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did it at the ped's office, around 4 weeks.

I'm very pro-vax, but that one is given at birth for social reasons, not medical ones (with obvious exceptions like pp's situation). The population most at risk are the ones least likely to get all their immunizations, so it's on the schedule to be given at birth. I personally wasn't comfortable giving permission for it before he was born, so we just waited to do it with the pediatrician.

+100

I follow the schedule to the letter except for the heps. DC1 didn't get either until her daycare was audited and they noticed she didn't have them. Being stubborn wasn't worth the hassle of catching up, so DC2 has everything on time. Both of them will probably get them again around age 18 or 20, when the real risk has materialized yet the mandated dosages have likely worn off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did it at the ped's office, around 4 weeks.

I'm very pro-vax, but that one is given at birth for social reasons, not medical ones (with obvious exceptions like pp's situation). The population most at risk are the ones least likely to get all their immunizations, so it's on the schedule to be given at birth. I personally wasn't comfortable giving permission for it before he was born, so we just waited to do it with the pediatrician.

How is it "social reasons"? The vaccine is given at birth because there are no risks associated with giving it early, and doing so provides protection for kids who were exposed prenatally, including those whose parents didn't realize they were exposed.

That's a hell of a lot better reason for giving it on that particular day then the fact that we give the Chicken Pox vaccine at 12 months, a decision that was likely made because it's an easier age to remember than say 12 months and a week, or eleven and a half months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did it at the ped's office, around 4 weeks.

I'm very pro-vax, but that one is given at birth for social reasons, not medical ones (with obvious exceptions like pp's situation). The population most at risk are the ones least likely to get all their immunizations, so it's on the schedule to be given at birth. I personally wasn't comfortable giving permission for it before he was born, so we just waited to do it with the pediatrician.

How is it "social reasons"? The vaccine is given at birth because there are no risks associated with giving it early, and doing so provides protection for kids who were exposed prenatally, including those whose parents didn't realize they were exposed.

That's a hell of a lot better reason for giving it on that particular day then the fact that we give the Chicken Pox vaccine at 12 months, a decision that was likely made because it's an easier age to remember than say 12 months and a week, or eleven and a half months.

Not that PP, but hep is not transmitted in the same way as chicken pox or many of the other diseases for which children receive vaccines. It's transmitted to children generally only from the mother, and mothers generally only have hep B because they engage in risky behaviors and those behaviors are associated with low rates of vaccination. Giving the vaccine to everyone can cover those children even though their mothers aren't getting care, so we do that even though the majority of children aren't at risk until they are older and start engaging in the risky behaviors - sex, IV drugs, tattoos, etc. I believe that's what PP means by social reasons, not temporal placement on the schedule relative to other early childhood vaccines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did it at the ped's office, around 4 weeks.

I'm very pro-vax, but that one is given at birth for social reasons, not medical ones (with obvious exceptions like pp's situation). The population most at risk are the ones least likely to get all their immunizations, so it's on the schedule to be given at birth. I personally wasn't comfortable giving permission for it before he was born, so we just waited to do it with the pediatrician.

How is it "social reasons"? The vaccine is given at birth because there are no risks associated with giving it early, and doing so provides protection for kids who were exposed prenatally, including those whose parents didn't realize they were exposed.

That's a hell of a lot better reason for giving it on that particular day then the fact that we give the Chicken Pox vaccine at 12 months, a decision that was likely made because it's an easier age to remember than say 12 months and a week, or eleven and a half months.

Not that PP, but hep is not transmitted in the same way as chicken pox or many of the other diseases for which children receive vaccines. It's transmitted to children generally only from the mother, and mothers generally only have hep B because they engage in risky behaviors and those behaviors are associated with low rates of vaccination. Giving the vaccine to everyone can cover those children even though their mothers aren't getting care, so we do that even though the majority of children aren't at risk until they are older and start engaging in the risky behaviors - sex, IV drugs, tattoos, etc. I believe that's what PP means by social reasons, not temporal placement on the schedule relative to other early childhood vaccines.

Hep B can also be transmitted in families and in medical facilities. Not everyone who contracts it has engaged in "risky behavior" unless you consider loving and caring for people, to be "risky behavior". Vaccinating infants at birth protects them both from neonatal transmission, and also from future transmission. Spreading misinformation that this is a disease that is only found in people who engage in certain behaviors reduces the likelihood that people will get testing, and increases the likelihood of transmission.

[Anonymous]

With my first, around 15 months. Second was around 9 months. Third, a day old, but only because extra doctors visits were a pain with 3 and my first two had been fine.

I am also pro-vax but in most cases do not see a need for this vaccine at birth, but did make sure to get it done before traveling to a 3rd world country.

[Anonymous]

Isn't it when the baby is still in the hospital? So within the first day or so.