Shots

Today Christophe had his first shot, we had been delaying all his vaccines until now.
I felt guilty so I bought him a book:

Immunization - Christophe

A while back we posted about vaccination and that we were trying to figure out what to do. A few months have past and I think we have it figured out. We read tones of websites and documentations on the various vaccinations; below is our reading list:

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cig-gci/index-eng.php
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cig-gci/p01-tab01-eng.php
http://www.vran.org/
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tmp-pmv/reports/cireports07_e.html
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/257518

The Vaccine Book by Robert W. Sears

I am sure many of you are wondering what we have decided to do. The basics that we decided to follow is:

• no vaccinations until 6 months or older
• only one injection per visit
• a minimum of 3 months between each injection
• delay the MMR until at least 2 years of age
• only give the chickenpox vaccine at the age of 7 years assuming he has not been exposed to this virus
• no influenza (flue shot) vaccine since this one still contains mercury

In order to help me keep track of Christophe's immunizations, I have made a revised vaccination schedule that I will be proposing to our doctor on our next visit. If you would like to see how this compares to Ontario's Proposed schedule you can check out the Health Canada Web Site.

I want to give a shout out to Kim as if it was not for her I would not have had such a great list of websites as references. Thanks.

Once we show our proposed schedule to our doctor I will let you guys know what he though about it.

1st doctor visit

Today we are going to see Dr. Sood for his first real visit. We have been there once before but that was just for a referral to be able to get a CF test done. Hopefully we will have the results today.

Since our little man is 2 months now I am sure the doc will want to give him his first vaccinations. However both Geoff and I believe in a delayed vaccination schedule with a few modifications. This means I am most likely going to have an interesting conversation with the doc today.

We are still ironing out exactly how we are approaching vaccination and once we have it all figured out we will share our decisions and why with you; but for now due to recent links between early vaccination and allergies we believe 2 months is too early.

Article was originaly published on medscape but you need tp be a member to read it there.