It is probably more helpful to the baby if you let him or her have all of its blood after it's born. Some hopefully helpful info for you and your wife (and congratulations): http://midwifethinking.com/2011/02/10/cord-blood-collection-confessions-of-a-vampire-midwife/ http://thenonconformistmom.blogspot.com/2011/07/delayed-cord-clamping-whats-that.html

Starting on the day of birth, happy parents in hospitals everywhere give their newborn their first shot. For Hepatitis B. By age of six months, scared parents everywhere (or intelligent depending on how you are brainwashed- and we all are) give their children 6 vaccines. By age 2, they receive 27. The study proves nothing- except maybe 30% of the helpless kids who get shoved into the machine that sounds like a firing squad might get medical exemptions. http://www2a.cdc.gov/nip/kidstuff/newscheduler_le/schedule.asp I received 7 of these things ("shots") in my entire life and I don't know anyone who got any of the diseases I was vaccinated for. My point is not that vaccines might be effective (though I have yet to see a study that was not sponsored by money from people and organisations with huge conflicts of interest)- it's that the amount of vaccines in such intense combinations at such early ages- with adjuvants that are known neurotoxins- must raise questions in your head. Please do not blindly accept paid-for "scientific proof" as actual proof. If you hold off until the immune system is able to utilize these agents effectively they might work and fewer would be "required." Do a titre at the end of getting 1 shot per disease. If sufficient antibodies exist, as theory goes, no more shots would be necessary... Science FTW!