Don't know if this is useful as you are a first time mom but:
a couple years ago, my vet told me that it's believed that the 1st distemper vaccine and the booster last a life time. I had already heard that about rabies vaccine and asked about that and was told, yes, it's good for a life time but there are these state laws...(so if one of my cats were to show up at the vets with a major wound, they would have to go through 6 month quarenteen..) Well, none of my cats go out, I can't offord the office visit for all my cats (and QueenScoopalot can't do my distemper vaccines because they hide from everyone..) and so I only go to the vet when someone isn't feeling well, etc. NOT for vaccines and certainly not for fecals! If i were still an active foster home, of course things would be different, but I haven't fostered in nearly a year. I'm not going to traumatize my semi-ferals unnecessarily! And whoever heard of giving a stool sample directly from the cat's body? What's in the litter box is good enough!