re: Providing the Hepatitis B Vaccine at Birth When the Mother Doesn't Have Hepatitis B

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My son basically followed the vaccine schedule from my childhood. (80s)

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Are you sure about that? I try to do some research but every side says they are right. Here is info I got from grok.

1986 Schedule (for someone born that year)

In the mid-1980s, routine childhood vaccines protected against 7 diseases: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough; given as the whole-cell DTP combination), measles, mumps, rubella (given as the MMR combination), and polio (given orally as OPV). ?
• By around age 2, a typical child received about 5 shots (injections) plus several oral polio doses, for a total of roughly 10–11 doses overall in the early years (counting each component in combinations separately where relevant, but focusing on administrations). ?
• No more than one injection per visit in most cases.
• Hepatitis B and Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b) were not yet routinely recommended for all infants (Hib licensing began around 1985–1989; HepB universal recommendation came later). ?
The schedule was simpler, with fewer visits involving multiple shots.

Current Schedule (as of recent years, pre-2026 changes)
Before major revisions announced in early 2026, the CDC-recommended schedule protected against more diseases and involved many more doses, especially when counting annual or multi-dose series:
• By age 2, children often received 20–30+ individual vaccine doses (injections or oral), protecting against 10–14+ diseases depending on exact timing and combinations. This included:
• DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis; 4–5 doses by school age).
• Hib (3–4 doses).
• Pneumococcal conjugate (PCV; 4 doses).
• Polio (IPV, inactivated; 3–4 doses by age 2–6).
• Rotavirus (2–3 oral doses).
• MMR (1–2 doses).
• Varicella (chickenpox; 1–2 doses).
• Hepatitis B (3 doses, often starting at birth).
• Hepatitis A (2 doses).
• Annual influenza (1–2 doses per year starting at 6 months).
• And others like COVID-19 (variable) or RSV monoclonal antibody in some cases. ?
• Total through age 18 was often cited as 50–70+ doses (including boosters and annual flu shots), compared to roughly two dozen or fewer in the 1980s.

My granddaughter didn’t get it at birth. They are following a delayed schedule and. I more than 1 or 2 vacc at a time l. She’s almost 2 and doing just fine. Hasn't caught hep!

Given I looked up the schedule and told her only to give what's on that list, yes.

No opposition at all.

She asked why, I said I was more comfortable trusting things that had been used for 50+ years without issue.

Guess what? He's happy and healthy.

Then again, his diet has been very well structured, and he's essentially been doing TGOMAW for three years. There's effectively a baby gorilla living in my home.

If you don’t think your child will be sharing drug needles, they never need hepatitis B vaccine

Doesn’t it cause autism?

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Might want to check the stats on that bud. Life altering side effects up to and including death

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Still safer than actually contracting Heb B as an infant

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comes from international travelers. Period.

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If only we had a way to ensure they were unable to contract the disease from the beginning.

Open border different discussion but applicable in nature since yes, many unvaccinated people enter our country and pollute us.

As if babies are using iv drugs and sleeping with crack-whores. Makes no $en$e.

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you don’t think your child will be sharing drug needles, they never need hepatitis B vaccine

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I bet there are a lot of parents of addicts that never thought their child would be sharing drug needles. You never plan on your child becoming a drug addict, and if/when they do, I bet that recommending the Hep B vaccine to their addict children is the last thing on their mind.

Hep B is the most transmissible form of hepatitis.
The thymus is most active in the first year of life, so the vaccine produces more effective antibodies that retain better lifetime effectiveness when given young. It’s not to protect 2 year olds from Hepatitis, it’s to protect that person for the rest of their life.