I'm here to empower you, and you're here to make the best choices for your family.

I give my daughters their vaccines on time, without hesitation, and with excitement for each one. I have absolutely zero hesitation or worry and leave each visit truly relieved. I hope you can feel that way too.

Oh, and one more thing: we have new studies showing that giving all of the vaccines at once is actually less stressful for the child because it's fewer visits to the doctor's office and more separate instances of giving shots.

3. All the components are safe.

4. There is no risk of overwhelming your baby's immune system.

5. There is nothing better about getting terrible and preventable diseases "naturally."

1. Vaccines are the safest, most important public health intervention since clean drinking water + sanitation.

2. They are given at times when it makes most sense for the little bodies: before they see the disease and when their body can mount a good response, with boosters to keep them protected.

Vaccines are the rare example of when we, as doctors, do have a great, straightforward, 100% evidence-based answer where one option is actually the safe choice.

Please read my book chapters, my website + IG, and get all the vaccine reassurance you need and deserve.

But still, here we are. And I'll keep giving vaccine advocacy the attention it (and you!) deserve. The reason vaccine anxiety persists is that there continues to be a criminal amount of compelling but completely false propaganda out there that is only growing in volume.

Let me be clear: I do NOT blame parents for being anxious. It's just such a tragedy that there's any stress over deciding to vaccinate, especially when so many other sources of parenting anxiety are competing for our attention.