Question for Delayed Vaxers

We did vaccinate but we use a modified Sears schedule to spread them out. She got as few combo vax as we could manage and the only reason she got MMR when she did was for travel. It was a middle ground that worked for us.

We originally thought we would delay, but we decided not to vaccinate. Had we delayed, we weren't going to start until 2 years old...from our pediatricians advice. A good resource, is "The Vaccine Book," by Dr. Sears. He has some delayed schedules outlined, that you could follow.

I'm sure I will get all kinds of private messages now, on how I'm a terrible parent and don't vaccinate. (It's happened before!!) I hope you don't get any hate mail, for possibly delaying your vaccines.

We started around 6 months and did vaccines very slowly... only one per visit and only every few months. At almost four, my girls are pretty much caught up. I think there are a few we've skipped, but they're for diseases that affect adults - like (oh no... can't think of the one... it's dangerous for pregnant women).

We've gotten some/most of his vaccinations, but the ones we're holding out on, we've decided he can get when he's 2. Some of the ones that he now has, we'd delayed about 6 months or so. Things like Hep B. We refused to let him get it at birth, so we were behind in the series & had to catch up. Further, we refused to let him get more than 2 vaccinations at one time, so that caused us to have to catch up on others too.

It's worked out well for us, and I'm very comfortable with our decisions to delay.

One of my friends just took her four year old in for shots on Friday. They gave her FOUR! I about passed out when I heard that.

I pointed out that they can spread them out. (I don't think our service people get that many at once before deployment.) She had no idea that they could space them out.

I delayed with my second daughter. She got one round of MMR and DTP at the age of 2. I continued to educate myself on vaccines and did not get her any more and with my 3rd she has not had any and will not have any.

We delayed vaccines until the kids were 2. Then we started in the same order they would have gotten them as babies (minus rotovirus, since that only applies to infants). The ones I was most worried about were the live virus ones (MMR & Varicella), and those were delayed until after 3. We worked with the pediatrician to spread them out and only did one shot every 2-3 months or so, except for those vaccines that are combined into 1 needle (let those be administered together as one shot instead of special ordering them separately). My son is now 3 years, 9 months, and he is caught up to others his age. He will still need the last round of shots before school, but that's it.

I believe vaccines are extremely toxic and i dont believe their benefits out weigh the risks. Therefore it was a personal decision to not vaccinate my children. I currently have a 4 yr old and a 2 yr old and a 3rd baby on the way. And they are out and about in society and have been very healthy and have only had colds in their life times. My 4 yr old recently had to get stitiches and the hospital gave me a long lecture about at least giving her a tetnus shot, so i agreed to do that - but that only comes in the combo - DTAP, so she is now receiving her DTAP series at age 4 and I decided to allow my 2 yr to receive it as well. So that is the only vaccine they have received to date. If i had my wish i would not vaccinate ever, but I am afraid that I will run into issues when I try to enroll my 4yr old in school next year (both children are in preschool/daycare type settings) but real schools seem to be a lot stricter on being vaccinated. And i do not plan to homeschool - so I haven't quite figured out how I will overcome that hurdle. But if there is no other way - i will slowly vaccinate them on what the school requires.