eir investigation, feel most comfortable with no vaccines at all.
The laws which govern parents in Colorado allow you to determine your own personal course of action with vaccines. However the laws which govern physicians require us to recommend the full vaccine schedule as designed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) under the auspices of the CDC.
We deeply respect each individual parent's right to choose how to proceed with vaccinating their children. If you decide to do anything less than the recommended schedule, we will require that you sign an informed consent waiver which clarifies that your decision and its risks are solely your responsibility and that we are not accountable for any adversity should your child suffer from a disease for which there is a vaccination. If you do elect to do a delayed start to the vaccines or a partial vaccination program, we then consider it an ethical contract on your part, as the parents, to insure that the vaccines are administered on the schedule. We will help to create a schedule with you which may involve office visits that are not on the regular "Well Child Care" schedule. We allow parents to alter the starting time of the vaccine but mandate that you stay on the correct administration schedule once you have begun.
Finally, we would like to suggest one last thought. Vaccines, despite all of the controversy, have saved thousands of lives and many more thousands of permanent adversities. Once you decide to vaccinate your child, embrace the vaccination as a gift of nature and science. Help us place it into your child's body with the same loving energy you would give to your child while feeding them. In our opinion both you and your child will respond more favorably to the vaccine with this kind of loving energy.
We know that this is a big decision and we hope that this discussion will help by at least giving you a perspective and a framework within which to make this decision. We hope you arrive at a comfortable decision and wish you good luck in the process.
Partners In Pediatrics