It was 1999 the last time we had a hospital birth, so my information may be out of date. But the one shot that seemed totally unnecessary to me was HepC. At that time in our area they gave it to newborns before they left the hospital. HepC is spread through dirty needles/sexual contact, etc. Just seemed like an odd thing to require for newborns with parents who don't use drugs or test positive for other diseases, etc. I should add that we only vaxxed our first two kids partially- had to really fight for that at the time- and after that we skipped them all entirely. But this was one of the things that we learned that got us thinking about the accepted vax schedule.

It was 1999 the last time we had a hospital birth, so my information may be out of date. But the one shot that seemed totally unnecessary to me was HepC. At that time in our area they gave it to newborns before they left the hospital. HepC is spread through dirty needles/sexual contact, etc. Just seemed like an odd thing to require for newborns with parents who don't use drugs or test positive for other diseases, etc.