1/3rd of that is Flu shots, which seems a bit inflated but I don't have a kid yet so don't really know what the new age jabberwockies are trying to recommend.
My children were all born in the eighties. Flu shots were not a thing back then, and mine never got them. I also got the pediatrician to space their shots out. When I see that even newborns are getting Hep B shots it boggles my mind.
We’ve had all 3 of our children at home, the last one being during the early days of covid. The only person that would have a legitimate conversation with us about vaccines was our midwife. We had been told by other Dr’s that they wouldn’t be our practitioner just on the basis of benign questions. For instance, why do we need to give the baby a Hep B shot? We aren’t filled with track marks and are monogamous? One pediatrician told us he wouldn’t be our Dr because we mentioned spacing them out. Their outright refusal to entertain any questions threw up too many red flags back then. I didn’t know exactly why we were against it, but there were enough reasons to not trust it.
Not to mention that most babies get an extra hep B shot (5 instead of 4) because of how the vaccines are bundled. This makes absolutely no sense given that it only takes 2 shots in their early teens to gain full immunity, so why not just put it off until then?
1/3rd of that is Flu shots, which seems a bit inflated but I don't have a kid yet so don't really know what the new age jabberwockies are trying to recommend.
My children were all born in the eighties. Flu shots were not a thing back then, and mine never got them. I also got the pediatrician to space their shots out. When I see that even newborns are getting Hep B shots it boggles my mind.
We’ve had all 3 of our children at home, the last one being during the early days of covid. The only person that would have a legitimate conversation with us about vaccines was our midwife. We had been told by other Dr’s that they wouldn’t be our practitioner just on the basis of benign questions. For instance, why do we need to give the baby a Hep B shot? We aren’t filled with track marks and are monogamous? One pediatrician told us he wouldn’t be our Dr because we mentioned spacing them out. Their outright refusal to entertain any questions threw up too many red flags back then. I didn’t know exactly why we were against it, but there were enough reasons to not trust it.
Not to mention that most babies get an extra hep B shot (5 instead of 4) because of how the vaccines are bundled. This makes absolutely no sense given that it only takes 2 shots in their early teens to gain full immunity, so why not just put it off until then?