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"We have Emmett&amp;#039;s two-month appointment today\u2014I can&amp;#039;t believe what a big boy he is! I&amp;#039;m excited to see how much weight he&amp;#039;s gained and whether he&amp;#039;s gotten any taller. I&amp;#039;m not excited for shots.  Our (amazing!) pediatrician follows the Centers for Disease Control/Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices vaccination schedule, which means that Emmett will be getting SIX shots tomorrow. (HepB, RV, DTaP, Hib, PCV, and IPV, if that alphabet soup means anything to any of you.)  When Emmett was in the hospital for jaundice, I couldn&amp;#039;t be in the room when they had to take blood from his (five-day-old!) hand. I don&amp;#039;t know how I&amp;#039;m going to deal today.  I&amp;#039;m also kind of freaked out about vaccinations in general. I trust our pediatrician, but I worry about the strain on Emmett&amp;#039;s immune system and the potential neurological effects. I don&amp;#039;t want to nonchalantly let them pump him full of a bunch of bad stuff\u2014but I don&amp;#039;t want to be a crazy &amp;quot;no vaccines EVER&amp;quot; mom and have him get something scary and totally preventable, like mumps.    Stay tough, little guy! Did you get the vaccines your doctor recommended when she recommended them? Did you stretch them out? Eliminate some? Or did you skip vaccines altogether? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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