How a Chickenpox Lollipop and a Pink Birthmark Got Me All Worked Up About Vaccination

When my son Cole* was 10 months old, my neighbor Melissa* informed me that she was going to be giving her 4-year-old daughter a chickenpox lollipop. Melissa and I were both the sort of overeducated, baby-wearing, downward-dog-posing, Dr. Sears-reading mamas so commonly found in our neck of the Bay Area. Still, I had not heard […]