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**JubesInquest** · #6 10-26-2007, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by LadyLane

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?

As you know, vaccinations are to prevent childhood communicable diseases.
It is hailed as prevention of epidemics and so forth...

Now as far as that chicken pox vaccination goes, I have one child that had to get the shot and also get the "booster"; the other child actually had the chicken pox (before the vaccination came out) and that child still had to get booster shots.

State law requires that all immunizations are up-to-date by the time a child starts school or is in daycare.

So, even if a child is NOT in school or at daycare, they can still become susceptible to these childhood diseases just by being exposed to the general public; could be a doctor's office, restaurant, shopping mall, grocery store/supermarket.... wherever! Oh, and don't forget those little play areas that places like McDonalds, Jeepers, Chuck E. Cheese and others have...

So it's a good idea just to keep your child protected as best you can. I've heard of parents actually altering their child's immunization record so that they can get them in school or daycare; then the school or daycare calls the state to verify all the shots on record. Once they find out they're missing immunizations, they kick the child right out of school until they're updated.