What Vaccines Do Babies Get At Two Months?
With the current AAP immunization schedule, the vaccines babies get at two months protect them against eight life-threatening diseases.
Vaccines that are important, as these diseases have not been eradicated and are coming back as more parents skip or delay vaccinating their kids.
What Vaccines Do Babies Get At Two Months?
And that’s why most parents still choose to vaccinate and protect their babies and when they are two months, get:
DTaP - protects against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis or whooping cough
IPV - protects against polio
HepB - protects against the hepatitis B virus
PCV (the pneumococcal vaccine, either Prevnar 20 or VAXNEUVANCE, a 15-valent vaccine) - protects against invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae, such as bacteremia and meningitis
Hib - protects against invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b, such as epiglottitis and meningitis
Rotavirus - protects against rotavirus
But understand that getting protected against these eight vaccine-preventable diseases doesn’t mean getting eight shots!
It doesn’t even mean getting six shots…
After all, most parents opt for a combination vaccine that combines many of the vaccines into a single shot.
Plus, the rotavirus vaccine is oral!
That’s how most infants are just getting two or three shots when they are two months old and are still fully vaccinated and protected.
Skipping or Delaying Your Baby’s Vaccines
But what if you want to skip or delay one or more of your baby’s vaccines?
Well, in addition to the risk that your baby could get one of these diseases while they are unprotected when following a non-standard, parent-selected, delayed protection alternative vaccine schedule, it would mean extra injections. That’s because you wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the combination vaccines.
And if anti-vaccine influencers have you concerned about vaccine ingredients, like aluminum, know that your baby will actually get less aluminum with a combination vaccine like Vaxelis vs. getting the shots separately.
Hopefully you are now ready to get your two-month-old vaccinated and protected!