The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that babies get their first combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine at 12 months and a second dose at age 4 to 6, before starting pre-school or kindergarten. Not only is your child vulnerable to measles if you delay this, but older kids might be more likely to have frightening complications from the vaccine. “People are delaying immunization for their children because they are concerned about this very small, precious 12-month-old,” Halsey said. But about 5 percent of children develop what’s known as febrile seizures when they get a fever for any reason. These seizures are almost always harmless, but they are scary. And about one in 6 kids gets a fever after getting the first dose of MMR vaccine. This risk actually goes up in children older than 1, Halsey said. “So it is not safer to delay. It is safer to give the vaccine on schedule,” he said.

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