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My grandson was born 10/16/01 he has had 5 vaccines already. FOUR, I repeat FOUR at one time. THey made him quite ill. It took his mom nearly all day to reduce his 102 temp with cool baths and baby tylenol. He was still sick over Christmas from the after effects. There is NO reason to give FOUR shots at once to a baby under three months old. Poor little guy got one in each arm and one in each leg. I'm beginning to dislike baby docs and the politicians that mandate this crap.

The fever was caused by the newest of the vaccines. That's Prevnar. The vaccine was in short supply in our area and the fact is that the vaccine is the single most expensive vaccine on the market.

I have had no problems with the children in our practice who have received these vaccines without Prevnar. When the Prevnar was introduced, it created the fever side effect.

On the other hand, if no fever occurred, then it would show that your child was not responding to the vaccines. That is not good. The fact the fever exists shows that you will have lasting immunity to the germ.

My first child has autism and I did have my 2nd child vaccinated but MUCH later than their crazy schedule. At least 4 shots at 2 months old, again at 4 months old, and again at 6 months old??? Into newborn immune systems??? I think it is insane! I deliberately brought my 2nd child later for each vaccine. You can also ask them to split up the doses of those killer triple disease vaccines. They don't like it, the baby doesn't like it (more shots), but less chance of overdoing it and making the baby sick.

I personally believe that the reason they shoot 'em all in at once and so early is because they feel that at the newborn stage the parents are less likely to "miss" the appointments (well baby checkups that are usually covered by insurance completely). They feel they've "got" the attention of the parents then, so shoot 'em all in while they can.

I also feel that if you keep your baby near home most of the time, and don't overexpose your baby to germs (no daycare), you can safely bring your baby late to his vaccinations. Breastfeeding does help the new immune system somewhat, too.