hmmm. mmr

it looks like evie is a 5 percenter, meaning she's among the five percent of people who get a little sick 7-10 days after an mmr vaccination. so far it's not too bad. just a low fever, but i wonder if it's part of the reason that she only napped for a grand total of 30 minutes yesterday (in the car twice for 15 minutes each time).

hopefully she'll feel better today. we've got a party for zyla's first birthday this afternoon, and her grandparents are here from india for the event. i'd really like to be able to go and celebrate, but we'll see how she's doing when she gets up today.

this makes me glad that i chose to skip the chicken pox vaccine this time around. not forever, just to spread things out a bit. knock wood, but hopefully we don't need to worry too much about her being exposed since she's not in daycare. time will tell.

for the most part we're doing all of her recommended immunizations, but i did skip the hep b and the rotovirus. the former was my idea, i was a little surprised in the hospital when they wanted to give my newborn a vaccine for a disease transmitted primarily via needles and sex - didn't seem she should be in too much danger for that. her doc backed up my reasoning, and also suggested that the rotovirus vaccine was pretty new, so not be worth doing since the rotovirus isn't too serious. knocking wood again. i decided to hold off on chicken pox for now, just so her body wouldn't have to deal with so much at one time. now that she's a little sick, i'm really glad.