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The reason why they want to give the hep vaccine in the nursery is for public health reasons only. There is a captive audience in the nursery, and it is easier for the government to vaccinate everyone at that time.
I have no children, but all the nurses that I know space their kids vaccination schedule out. If you look at the recommendations, under 15 months, there are up to 5-6 vaccines that is given all at once- at age 2,4, 15 months. That is crazy.
If you are a responsible parent, spacing the vaccines out would be smart.
I do not think newborns need a hep vaccine, that can wait until at least age 13. I have my suspicions about the chickenpox vaccine. I have read that its effectiveness expires as a person grows older. Chickenpox in an older person can be deadly. I think that this will be apparent in 30 years, when chicken pox emerges in previously vaccinated children.
It would be nice if the CDC changed the schedule to a more spaced out one, there might be more compliance.