Specialty Care of Children From Birth through Adolescence  

Susan Betts-Barbus MD • Gerald Herring MD

Elizabeth Rzepka-Alto MD • Mary Blackmer FNP

  
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Ages for Well Child Examinations and Childhood Immunizations

as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. 

1-2   weeks:   Hepatitis B  (if not done in the hospital.)

2 months:       DTaP, Hepatitis B, HiB, Prevnar, Polio, Rotavirus

  

4 months:       DTaP, HiB, Prevnar, Polio, Rotavirus

  

6 months:       DTaP, Hepatitis B, HiB, Prevnar, Polio, Rotavirus

9 months:       Well child exam, catch up on any missed immunizations.

12 months:     MMR, Varicella

15  months:    HiB, DTaP, Prevnar

18 months:    Well child exam

2 years:        Well child exam

3 years:          Well child exam

4 years:         MMR, Polio, DTaP, Varicella

After age 4 then yearly physical exams.

Girls ages 11 years and older:  Gardisil ( Human papilloma virus)

11 - 12 years:   Tdap and Menactra

College age:  Menactra (if not done previously)

 For more information on what's new with childhood Immunizations and what's on the horizon click here.