Vaccines

[mommabearto3]

Sorry to be repetitive, but for the sake of expedience, I will repost this response in this thread as well...

I definitely understand why most people feel the way they do about vaccinations and I believe doctors mean well in their recommendations to vaccinate, but for many reasons, I (and many others), have come to think that they have missed the boat on this one.
We used to vaccinate our 3 kids on schedule until about 1 year ago when I started really doing a lot of research and found that I just did not feel comfortable vaccinating anymore. My husband agrees so we have chosen to stop permanently. Many things have led to that decision. One of them was understanding that vaccines aren't really as effective as they are touted to be by the medical community. We tend to think (and are told) that if it were not for vaccines, we would still have huge epidemics of all the childhood diseases they now vaccinate against. Seems like that would make sense at first glance, but when you research it, you find that almost all those diseases were in massive decline PRIOR to the vaccines becoming mainstream. The reason for this decline is mainly due to better sanitation & nutrition which has a huge impact on our immune systems. Here are some graphs showing this trend:

You can read more about this info at:

http://freelearner.typepad.com/free_...rst-place.html

Also, one of the most informative things I did was to watch the video I linked to below with my husband. It is made by a very well respected doctor who was pro-vax for a long time (she was the head of an ER at a hospital) but then started researching it for herself and found much to be concerned about. She says most doctors are very well meaning but the education they receive is very one sided and they simply don't have time to do the research for themselves and/or don't even know/want to really question the vaccine policies. Here's the link:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...40451107552&q=

It's a video by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny called "Vaccines: The risks, the benefits, the choices." It was a couple of hours, but walked through each vaccine and gave a ton of helpful info.

For us, after all the research, we just couldn't see taking the risk of injecting some potentially very dangerous chemicals for very little payout in the end (since vaccines are not nearly as effective as they seem to be at keeping our children from getting the diseases they are supposed to immunize against in the first place!)

Again, I sympathise with how hard of a decision this is. It kinda feels like "damned if you do, damned if you don't" (pardon the language sometimes, but just do the research and make the best decision you can for your family.

[H.Starr]

Vaccinations were never a question, not even for one single millisecond.
My son has had every possible one so far, and will continue to until there are none left.
Anything I can do to prevent sickness and diseases, I'm doing.
He's almost ten months old and has never been sick a single day in his life. Not even a cold.
I think vaccines causing autism is a load of crap. I've never ever heard of someone "growing autistic." They're born with it.

Aaand, he will get the chicken pox vaccination, and I will try my best to not let him be near anyone who has it! YUCK!

[Jill_at_StorkRadio]

I also plan to vaccinate but the question for me is how many at a time -- I am not sure I want to give my baby 5 shots in a day, I would rather space it out and not overwhelm her body. Does anyone have a good delayed schedule that they use?

[H.Starr]

Typically when they have more than one to get at a time, they combine some. My son's first set of shots (2 months old) was 3 shots. The next two sets (4 and 6 months) were 2 shots. And this most recent (9 months) was only one.

[SiMaMa]

My son has had all his vaccinations up to date. I don't think that autism is a disease you can just get either. I know of a couple of people with autistic children, and they said the signs were there from the beginning. And any case, I would rather chance it than have my son die of something like whopping cough when it could have easily prevented.

[lismom2]

Jill- many parents are happy with Dr. Sears alternative schedule
http://www.askdrsears.com/thevaccine...20diseases.asp

This sit also has a lot of info an a schedule at the bottom.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller15.html

[H.Starr]

From Parenting themselves, in their "Stinky Diaper Awards"


The Whatever it Takes to Get Ratings Award
Eli Stone

As Teletubbies can attest, TV is far from factual. Even so, we were outraged by the season premiere of this ABC show, in which a mom nabs a $5.2 million verdict after alleging that a vaccine caused her son's autism. The controversy over inoculations and autism is frighteningly real, despite the fact that stacks of studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and the American Academy of Pediatrics have failed to expose a link. "Many people trust the health information presented on fictional television shows," then AAP president Ren¿e R. Jenkins, M.D., said in a plea to the network not to air the episode. The show went on, and we'd hate to think that it dissuaded even one parent from vaccinating her child.


Thank you Parenting! Vaccines causing autism = FICTION.

[kementzer]

As a father of 3 my opinion is, get them vaccinated. There is no proven link between any vacs an Autism or anything else other then mild side effects. Also I'm sorry but the risk of my child getting sick and dieing from an illness is definitely greater then raising a child with autism. Myself, my wife, 98% of people I know as well as all 3 of my children were vaccinated and no one as any illness from them. Ultimately do what you think is right. Just think what is best for your child and which risk is greater

[Jill_at_StorkRadio]

It is also a good thing to talk to your pediatrician about in your prenatal interviews. They can point you in the direction of other medical research too and see if you are into their philosophy.

[miriamele]

I have an 8mo old daughter that has had one vax, and that one they gave her in the hospital without my permission. I decided that I wasn't going to vaccinate my daughter untill she was at least 1 year old, and then, she won't be getting all of them.

A friend of mine has a 3 year old daughter who was talking at one year, whole (if short) sentences. by the time she was 18mo, she didn't talk at all, refused to make eye contact with anyone, couldn't sit still, even to eat...all kinds of things. There were no major frvers, nothing to explain what was wrong. She was recently diagnosed with sever autisom. The only explaination that anyone can come up with is the vax she received.

I have lived with an autistic stepbrother, and it is not something I'm willing to risk, but it seems that if you wait to vaccinate, the risks decrease, and I do want my child protected from whatever I can protect her from.