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Hi, I'm , and I just wanted to introduce myself and hopefully get a

little support. I have a 3-year-old son who we adopted from Guatemala, and

we're in the process of adopting domestically now. I mostly joined this group

to find out more about the facts on vaccinations as well as to see if anyone has

experience with refusing vaccinations for an adopted child.

For the record, my son received all his vaccinations in Guatemala and came to

the U.S. at the age of 10 months. He has not gotten any vax since. I hadn't

really researched the infant stuff because it never applied to us. I thought we

would selectively vax, but as I read about each one I ended up not seeing any

that were necessary at this point.

Now we're revisiting the topic for a potential newborn adoption. Our agency

(and/or our state of Indiana) requires vax. In fact, our contract says that the

adoption will not be finalized until the child receives the 2-month vax. At the

time, we thought we were okay with that because our first son rec'd even more

and didn't seem to have any problems from it. Now I'm looking more closely at

how much they really get at that 2-month visit, and it's a little scary. I

don't know that much about this, so I'm mostly looking for support. Has anyone

else gone through this?

I'm scared to bring it up to the agency for fear of jeopardizing our chances to

have another child. I keep thinking that the vast majority of kids get

vaccinated without major problems so maybe I should just go with the flow (like

my husband says). But then why do I get this uneasy feeling? Sorry this is so

long. Thanks for reading!