vaccines?

Mere · #1 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 12:30 PM

I may have posted this once if so i am sorry. did everyone's babies get hepatitis vaccines in the nicu? the nicu nurse came down and talked to me the other day and mentioned it. i am kinda curious b/c on another board i am on there is a big vaccine debate and i think the hep b vaccine has thermisol which is the reason for the debate. all this info can really get your head spinning. also, did ya'll give the flu vaccine or chicken pox vaccines?

kancina · #2 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 03:32 PM

They gave Cameron his first set of vaccinations in the NICU when he was 60 days old. Im not sure if the hep B was one of them though. They dont do the flu shot until they are 6 months and my son didntget his chickenpox vacc. until he was one year old. Im glad to hear you are still hanging in there! How are you holding up?

Mere · #3 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 03:52 PM

I am doing ok. I am so ready to go home though. But, if I am still pregnant at 32-33 wks. they say i MAY can go home then! It will be so nice to go home. Of course he doesn't think I'll make it that much longer but he didn't think I'd make it this far either. So...

Tancy · #4 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 04:33 PM

Hi Mere! I am glad to see you are still hanging in there! Stay put baby girl! I will tell you that we don't vaccinate at all. I believe we are doing what is best for our family but I am not one who is going to get into fights about it and try to convince or change everyone else. Just educate yourself and make the decision that is best for you and your family.
We quite vaccinating our children when our first DS was 15 months old. I know that one of the main reasons for avoidance of the Hep B vaccine is that Hep B is a sexually transmitted disease, why does my infant need that? You can always ask the girls at the vaccine discussion board.

I pray that you make it too the go home point!

thepeach80 · #5 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 08:43 PM

I just happened to stumble on this thread. I was hoping to get an update on you. I hope things are going well and your baby girl stays put! I bet you are going crazy.

I was only in 2 days for ptl and that was enough for me.

Anij · #6 (**permalink**) 02-09-2006, 01:07 AM

Jasmine was given hep b in the nicu at 8 days

Anij · #7 (**permalink**) 02-09-2006, 01:12 AM

also jasmine isnt due for chicken pox for a while, and she got the flu shot at 6 months adjusted (i think she was, forgot when.)

Marcus&Deana'sMum · #8 (**permalink**) 02-09-2006, 08:09 AM

Denaa got her heb p in the hospital a couple days after she was born. We do chicken pox vaccine here at 12 months and haven't given any flu shots.

naturegal · #9 (**permalink**) 02-10-2006, 05:22 AM

Well I don't vax at all, so I didn't let them give her the heb b while in the NICU, which they wanted to give her right before she left. I told them my baby wasn't going to be having sex or doing drugs anytime soon, so we are set. Of course they tried to give me the scared tactics. Hep b can have "trace" amounts of thimerasol in it still.

shauna26 · #10 (**permalink**) 02-14-2006, 04:43 AM

We chose not to do the hep B. Tianna did receive her first few vaccines. At 6 months of age she contracted bacterial meningitis. She has not been immunized since. Her neutropenia levels are just too low for any immunizations and she is immuno comprimised.

So glad that your little girl is hanging in

I hope you are too. I spent 2 months in hospital before Tianna was born I was a basket case by the time she arrived.

Gitti · #11 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 12:29 PM

A couple of week ago I came across this super informative (and fun to read) vaccine blog. It doesn't seem to be totally anti-vaccine just sort of telling it like it is.

Inside Vaccines — A Forum for Parents from Parents

Their newest entry is about Pertussis (whooping cough). Such a serious infection but the blog is FUNNY!

That guy, or whoever writes it, seems to want to make the CDC fess up something?

MommyandIsaiah · #12 (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 09:13 AM

I know I m a little late On this But My son Isaiah Was in the NICU for 4 Months did Not get vac in tell he came and got them all At His Dr Office. hope Your baby stays were she Is Isaiah Came At 31 weeks I Was put On bed Rest and was in the Hospotial on bed for a month no fun at all.Complacencies But is a normal 2 year old not outhr then his size.

Gitti · #13 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 08:55 PM

Hep B is spread by blood contact or sexual promiscuity so why would a newborn needs it?

But we don't vaccinate at all any more. We used to but the more research we did the more we realized that it is best to leave the body the way it was created. There is no way to improve upon a mast plan.

Here is a site where we get most of our info -

Inside Vaccines — A Forum for Parents from Parents

We also read just about every vaccine book on the market. The one we liked best was Vaccines: A Thoughtful Parent's Choice by Aviva Jill Romm.

Congratulations on your new baby.