Remember, you have to get your vaccines at least one month before hand to build up that immunity before you do your traveling. Not a requirement. But good idea.
Age | Vaccines | Notes |
---|---|---|
Birth | HepB | Didn't do the research so just got it cuz they offered. |
2 months | DTaP (Deptacel) | |
3 months | Caught a nasty chest cold. Worried mommy endlessly. | |
4 months | DTaP (Deptacel) | |
6 months | Caught a really bad head cold. Mommy worries about ear infection. And skips the vaccination. | |
7 months | Pc (Prevnar) | Skips the final shot of DTaP since starting summer travel and opt for Pc instead since will encounter lots of people. |
8 months | Yosemite trip. | |
9 months | Pc (Prevnar) | Decided with Pc instead since liklihood of whooping cough lower than Pc as we're not going to daycare. This way, we're up to 90% on both vaccines before we take that cruise. |
10 months | Cruise | |
11 months | Starting shared nanny. Since the other kid doing regular vaccination, it'll allow me to continue with my alternate schedule. | |
12 months | DTaP (Deptacel) | Mobile stage requires that I finish her T shots. Skipping chicken pox and MMR while I catch up on other shots. |
14 or 15 months | Pc (Prevnar) | Since 3rd dose is > 12 months, we only need 3 instead of 4! If we go back to Taiwan, I'll move this up to 13 or 14 months since antibiotic resistant strains come out of Asia. |
16 month | Polio #1 | |
17 month | Polio #2 | |
20.5 month | HIB (ActHIB) | Only need one shot. More reasoning here |
2.5 years | Everyone catches a month-long cold with nasty cough. My research said DTaP efficacy rate after 3 doses is about same as 4. But I worried nevertheless and got her tested just to make sure it wasn't pertussis. Even though gut feeling said it wasn't, it was still good to make sure. | |
3 years | MMR | Happy with my decision to delay till 3. We had a very small circle of vaccinated children as friends, are not going to preschool, and don't go out to places w/ lots of other kids much. But at 3 years, our social life is expanding so it's perfect timing. |
4+ years | DTaP #4, Polio #3, MMR #2 | The Swiss trials says 3 doses of DTaP vs 4 have about the same efficacy rate. So I'll wait till 4+ to get the 4th shot instead of getting 5 shots total. |
Still need:
- Chickenbox - torn about this one
- HepB - need to finish the series
- HepA
- Meningoccocal