We had a homebirth, so there was no nurse to automatically come in, scoop up your infant and give them an 8-in-1 jab full of mercury. We went in later to the clinic and got the truly life-threatening ones taken care of (meningitus, for example), over the course of a few weeks. At that time, the only statistical chance to get polio was from the shot itself, so we skipped it. If she travels to India, I'll recfommend it, but that's up to her now.
We didn't get the chicken pox jab, so she got the chicken pox a few years ago. No biggy. We all had it. But, you would have thought that we had the black plague at our house by the reaction of the school district and health department.
Time will tell whether the shot or the natural strains of chicken pox lead to more incidences of adult shingles.
I'm not that old, but as a child I had many fewer vaccinations than today's kids. If you include flu shots (absolutely ridiculous), a kid could easily be having 30 vaccinations by the time they are done with HS.