Hi Mommies -

My sister's twin girls will be a year old next month. We have been having long discussions about whether or not she should give them the MMR shot. The nurse at her peds office said they didn't need it yet as long as they weren't in day care. They can actually wait until they begin kindergarten.

I waited until my daughter was almost three, because I had read extensively about autism and MMR - and my own conclusion was that there wasn't enough evidence to prove that the shot didn't cause autism at one year of age.

Now the schools are talking about making children with a chicken pox shot get an extra booster (because some kids are getting it anyway after having the first shot).

I'm not sure I'm happy about this "can't attend school unless you had blah blah blah shots" - shouldn't we be able to decide which vaccines our children can get and have them still be allowed in school? Assuming none of the illnesses are life-threatening, of course.

What do you all think about this?