As a retired pediatric nurse most of my years were in an office) I have always promoted vaccines. I am old enough to remember polio and iron lungs,have seen tetanus (the child died a terrible death),meningitis,etc. The discomfort from the vaccines is minimal. Most of the adverse press is based on inaccurate information gleamed from poor studies and have been proven inaccurate--but this part doesn't usually make the news!