There is no health reason to spread out shots, the immune system handles them just fine and combo shots mean fewer sticks. It's really better to just get them on the schedule, better for daycare, better for your schedule, safer for the baby to get them as soon as they are offered. A lot of pediatricians around here I have found require patients to comply with the CDC vaccine schedules and that's a good thing.

I get the psychological hesitation, but trust doctors and the science. It's safe and it is far better for your baby to get them on schedule.

Also: Make sure to get your third trimester TDAP. Most babies who die of whooping cough are under 2 months and it's the best thing you can do to protect your baby until they are old enough to get their own vaccjne.

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Anonymous wrote:You need to ask your pediatrician, not DCUM. Probably he or she will happily accommodate you.

OP here ..Of course I will discuss it with a doctor. I am just curious how often American parents even bring these issues to their doctors

How old is your kid? I hated having to do shots as i felt bad (although baby is over it after a few min) and would have hated doing 4 separate trips to the doctor. Do you work? It’s also a PITA. And that is the recommended vaccination schedule

OP here...I am in my third trimester. I work, what is PITA?

Ahh ok, you don’t even have the baby yet. It feels torturous to take a little baby to the doctor and get shots - you know what’s coming, baby doesn’t, baby is happy, you have to hold the baby down and then baby is so mad and it’s really sad! Baby is over it as soon as you feed it, but still. And you take time off / docs run late / FTM analyzes baby super carefully to make sure all is fine. It just feels like a lot of extra effort and torture for little benefit aside from you not being from the states. It sounds like a lot but generally these are combo shots. Rotavirus is oral. I don’t ever recall more than 2 shots in a visit which must have been combo shots.

Why would you want more shots?

This is stupid.

The first shot is Hep B in the hospital. I held off on that one.

Anonymous wrote:Hep A unfortunately does exist here—there was a big outbreak in Michigan a few years ago. There was an outbreak at the local jail. When people got out of jail, they went back to their jobs in restaurants, thereby spreading hep A to hundreds of people outside the normal risk groups: https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2019/09/20/hepatitis-a-outbreak-michigan/2276156001/

There was also an outbreak in San Diego in 2017/. I remember as I was living in a developing country and there was such a shortage of Hep A vaccine the pediatrician recommended getting it when we went home or on holiday. We tried for 6 months to get it in country before getting in a third country while on holiday. We were very lucky we managed to snag the second dose six months later without having to do that again.

https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs/community_epidemiology/dc/Hepatitis_A.html

Just be careful that your alternative schedule complies with all CDC guidelines. Daycares are audited to make sure children are vaccinated according to the schedule, and if you fall outside the guidelines, you have to get the vaccine redone to be eligible for daycare. This means that a six month shot given a few days before the six month birthday doesn’t count. I had one vaccine given on the 6 month birthday and just had to deal with the audit.

Personally, I would stick with the standard schedule. I wouldn’t want my baby getting extra shots, or spending more days dealing with the vaccine immune response.

Hep A unfortunately does exist here—there was a big outbreak in Michigan a few years ago. There was an outbreak at the local jail. When people got out of jail, they went back to their jobs in restaurants, thereby spreading hep A to hundreds of people outside the normal risk groups: https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2019/09/20/hepatitis-a-outbreak-michigan/2276156001/

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Anonymous wrote:You need to ask your pediatrician, not DCUM. Probably he or she will happily accommodate you.

OP here ..Of course I will discuss it with a doctor. I am just curious how often American parents even bring these issues to their doctors

How old is your kid? I hated having to do shots as i felt bad (although baby is over it after a few min) and would have hated doing 4 separate trips to the doctor. Do you work? It’s also a PITA. And that is the recommended vaccination schedule

OP here...I am in my third trimester. I work, what is PITA?

PITA = pain in the a**

My fellow European...you're not in Europe...the topic of vaccines is toxic and polarizing, in US, like climate change...so you do not bring it in public you are lucky you were just told to go and "ask your doctor", take a hint and move on

Your European neighbor is here I had the same concerns and luckily I found the pediatrician who was trained in Europe. You can have your Swedish schedule if you do not use a daycare - noone will police you on this

Anonymous wrote:There are definitely pediatricians around who are open to alternative schedules (mine is one of them). He actually recommends no more than 2 shots at a time but is also fine if parents prefer to do four at once or one at a time.

OP here ...that is nice to hear, really, I have not had much exposure to pediatricians here

We talked to our ped and limited it to two shots per visit and just went in more often. Not a big deal. But, ours had a reaction to shots.

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Anonymous wrote:You need to ask your pediatrician, not DCUM. Probably he or she will happily accommodate you.

OP here ..Of course I will discuss it with a doctor. I am just curious how often American parents even bring these issues to their doctors

How old is your kid? I hated having to do shots as i felt bad (although baby is over it after a few min) and would have hated doing 4 separate trips to the doctor. Do you work? It’s also a PITA. And that is the recommended vaccination schedule

OP here...I am in my third trimester. I work, what is PITA?

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Anonymous wrote:I talked with my ped and we do 4 shots at a time. Aometimes that means an extra visit. Some of those are multi shot so i could them as one. We are on schedule though.

OP here, I have some concerns about there cocktails of 4 at a time. I would rather come 4 times

What are your actual concerns? And many of these are not manufactured separately (not for US anyway).

OP here, I understand TDAP comes in one shot...but at 2 months there are others e.g. PCV13 and IPV which can be spaced...also in Sweden such vaccines are given at 3 month. I guess in US maternity leave is short and 2 months is when the babies are taken to the daycare. Moreover there are 3 months in between doses in Sweden, in US it is 2 months