My dh is a scientist for a pharmaceutical company. He is definitely pro-vax. However he knows I am not on board with vaxing with the CDCs schedule so we've worked out a compromise. I really think that would be your best bet. I don't see my dh giving much credibility to some of the sources I see posted here. If we started down that road I'm sure he could dig up plenty of pro-vax medical literature for me.
My 21 month old son is totally unvaxed so far. That was mostly because we never found a doctor supportive of delayed vax so he hasn't seen a doctor since he was born. Not that I would recommend that approach. Fortunately my dh isn't the type to make doctors appointments or take a child for vaccines behind my back. He mentions occasionally that he'd like me to pick a vaccine to start with for ds but I haven't done it yet. Now he's pretty much too old to worry about Hib, PC7, and Rotavirus at least although I had planned to do Hib for him as a baby and skip the other 2 (PC7 was not even offered when our first 2 kids were babies so that was an easy sell to dh). Dh is supportive of not doing Hep B and Chicken Pox so that leaves IPV, MMR, and Tdap and I have agreed to do those at some point.
For my husband the point where he became more supportive of selective/delayed vaxing was when our 4 month old (born 11 week premature even) contracted whooping cough even after having 1 DTP shot. He said he didn't see much point in the WC protection if it didn't work for those that they were most trying to protect. I've been told she got it because she hadn't had the full number of doses yet however by then she would have been at least 6 months old and past the point where getting WC is as big a concern. Our 9 year old dd who was fully vaxed also got WC probably because the immunity to WC wears off.
My 21 month old son is totally unvaxed so far. That was mostly because we never found a doctor supportive of delayed vax so he hasn't seen a doctor since he was born. Not that I would recommend that approach. Fortunately my dh isn't the type to make doctors appointments or take a child for vaccines behind my back. He mentions occasionally that he'd like me to pick a vaccine to start with for ds but I haven't done it yet. Now he's pretty much too old to worry about Hib, PC7, and Rotavirus at least although I had planned to do Hib for him as a baby and skip the other 2 (PC7 was not even offered when our first 2 kids were babies so that was an easy sell to dh). Dh is supportive of not doing Hep B and Chicken Pox so that leaves IPV, MMR, and Tdap and I have agreed to do those at some point.
For my husband the point where he became more supportive of selective/delayed vaxing was when our 4 month old (born 11 week premature even) contracted whooping cough even after having 1 DTP shot. He said he didn't see much point in the WC protection if it didn't work for those that they were most trying to protect. I've been told she got it because she hadn't had the full number of doses yet however by then she would have been at least 6 months old and past the point where getting WC is as big a concern. Our 9 year old dd who was fully vaxed also got WC probably because the immunity to WC wears off.
