We have a Health Department printout that has a record of what is done. It doesn’t show anything prior to our involvement. It’s this record that has to be shown to the school, in order for you to enroll your own child. We submitted it with the enrollment and no one had any questions about it. So I assume everyone was okay. They certainly would have told us if it wasn’t.
In regards to the mom getting a flu/DTap shot — I can only comment that I believe I heard that the mom has never gotten a flu shot.
For that matter ... I have never gotten a flu shot either, and I’m just past 65 ... :-) ...
I’m just curious how she did all this unless she squeezed the kid out in a car somewhere and you subsequently adopted it prior to the child having any doctor visits of any kind whatsoever.
Since you’ve adopted the child I’m going to assume there wasn’t a father in the picture of any relevance. And I’m going to assume the mother was on assistance of some sort. Thus I’m amazed the child (and mom) weren’t vaccinated at any point along the way. Medicaid insists on the prenatal vaccines in this state. In fact, a friend of mine, who is on medicaid (and subsequently WIC) was threatened with having the child removed at birth if she didn’t get the DTaP shot prior to birth. She hates needles and had just gotten the flu shot and wasn’t in the mood for any more ‘hurty’ right then. The OB nurse didn’t play around with it either. ‘Get the shot or I call child services and start the removal process subsequent to your giving birth’...
Friend was only one of those who tell me that IF you get ANY services for that child at all you HAVE to follow the state’s mandated vax schedule. She wanted to skip the chickenpox vax and let them get it on their own. Nope. No can do. Again was threatened with child services, removal of the children and loss of assistance.
Just sayin’.
The ONLY people I know who have totally unvaxed kids are MD’s who didn’t need any state services and were able to get around the birth HepB dose because they were MD’s. And knew a ‘colleague’ willing to take the child and not throw them out of the practice for not vaccinating. Pediatric practices have to maintain a 95% totally vaxed rate (totally following the schedule, missing one vax constitutes ‘unvaxed’) or insurance companies give them crap.