Functional family tool

Vaccination Schedule Planner

Use your child’s date of birth to build a cleaner vaccine planning view. The planner shows routine age checkpoints, adds prompts for vaccines that currently sit under shared clinical decision-making, and flags situations that usually need a more personalised discussion.

This page is for planning and organisation. It does not replace your child’s doctor, official catch-up guidance, or the current CDC schedule when medical history, missed doses, travel, or higher-risk conditions change the recommendation.

See due windows clearly Routine age checkpoints are calculated directly from the date of birth.

Separate routine from optional discussions Shared-decision items stay visible without being mixed into every child’s default plan.

Flag special situations Travel, RSV risk, hepatitis B exposure, and other factors are surfaced as prompts to review with a clinician.

Parent organizing items for a child’s immunization visit

Build the plan

Enter the basics

Start with the child’s date of birth. Then add the planning options that matter for your family right now.

Child name or label

Date of birth

Plan from date

Show shared clinical decision-making reminders Include COVID, influenza, rotavirus, HepA, HepB, and meningococcal discussion prompts where relevant. RSV higher-risk review Useful for infants who may need RSV monoclonal antibody discussion or a second-season dose review. Hepatitis B exposure concern Use if the birth parent tested positive for hepatitis B or status was unknown around birth. International travel or special destination risk Useful for HepA, MMR travel timing, and meningococcal travel conversations. Higher-risk meningococcal situation Use for specific medical risks, outbreak settings, or other clinician-identified reasons to vaccinate earlier. Dengue discussion Relevant only for children in endemic areas who also have laboratory-confirmed previous dengue infection.

Planner output

What to review next

The planner below sorts vaccine reminders into routine checkpoints, discussion-based items, and higher-risk or travel prompts. Use it to prepare for appointments and make the next steps easier to talk through.

Add the child’s date of birth, then build the planner to see due windows and the next age-based vaccine milestones.

Helpful guidance

How this planner is structured

The current CDC parent schedule separates childhood vaccines into three buckets: recommendations for all children, recommendations for certain high-risk groups or populations, and vaccines based on shared clinical decision-making. This planner follows that structure so the output stays cleaner and more realistic for families.

CDC parent-friendly schedule Current COVID guidance Catch-up guidance

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