you want to do what is best for your children you know about the importance of car seats maybe gates and other ways to keep them safe recent cases of vaccine preventable infections remind us that one of the best ways to protect your children is to make sure that they have all of their vaccinations vaccination is very safe and effective serious side effects following vaccination are very rare the disease prevention benefits of getting vaccinated are much greater than any possible side effects for almost all children vaccination protects others you care about - some babies are too young to be vaccinated others may be unable to receive certain vaccinations due to allergies or weakened immune systems from conditions like leukemia or other reasons to help keep them safe it's important that those who can be vaccinated are fully immunized the vaccines for Children Program is a federally funded program that provides vaccines at no cost to children from low-income families and to all tribal beneficiaries as well as to others to find out more visit the CDC vaccines for children website or ask your child's health care professional if we continue vaccinating now and vaccinating completely parents in the future may be able to trust that some of the diseases of today will no longer be around to harm their children Oh