@SparkySunshine I don't mind the texture but I avoid it because it gets stuck in my teeth which drives me crazy! Especially right now when flossing makes me gag so bad it's not worth it.
Honest question, is delayed schedule for vaccines really bad? I have a friend spread them out a little because she just hated seeing her son go through so many at one time. I didn't think it was that big of a deal? Not sure now.
The main risk I know is it just leaves them vulnerable for a lot longer than they have to be. I guess while no one likes shots I would rather soothe my little ones tears than risk not having them.
I think I read that another risk is that the effectiveness of the vaccines were tested as treatment packages. So spreading them out and not administering them together may be effective, but is untested. I'm really not sure if I made that up though.
I'm always happy to play the anti-vaxer hate game. No, it's not a decision you are making just for your child. You are making it for mine also.
And another thing, as someone who works with people with autism every single day, you're telling me the potential for DEATH by a previously eradicated disease is preferable to you than the potential for having a child with autism?? Get your head out of your a$$.
The term "nub" makes me cringe. Quit obsessing over your kid's genitals. In the end, it makes no friggin difference.
Okay, I'm only letting this thought vomit out because you brought it up.
Everytime I read the word 'nub' in that thread I thought about this guy my husband deployed with who had lost both of his legs on a previous deployment. He told everyone to call him 'Sergeant Stumpy' and would take his prosthetics off and brandish his stumps at people.
Thank you for letting me get that out of my brain. It was festering there.
My dog just climbed on the counter and stole all of our remaining candy canes while I was napping and threw up peppermint + dog food all over my kitchen. I of course immediately also threw up. And I'd like to change my opinion on disowning our dogs... He's in the laundry room bed in time out and I'm deciding wether I want him to live or not >:(
That's the biggest problem with anti-vaxxers- often the most vulnerable are the elderly, the children allergic to vaccines/or who can't otherwise have them for medical reasons, and infants.
Recently a few friends said they're not doing them because of SIDS. I think a lot of them have stepped back from the autism thing because that's been so thoroughly debunked and now they're just in the big pharma is the worst we don't know what can happen camp. I am pretty skeptical about the medical field and its relationship to the pharmaceutical industry and I have a lot of issues with the way modern medicine happens in the US, but fuck, guys. Vaccines eradicated illnesses that WIPED OUT POPULATIONS. Why would you want to bring that shit back?
Just my two cents (not that anyone cares) on the spread out of vaccines. Why? Why would you put you baby (and mom) through more doctors appointments that are traumatic? If I could have gotten them all for my daughter at the same time I would have just to spare me from the ear splitting screams she had after each visit. It breaks my heart. But the 30 seconds of pain is so worth the coverage it gives them against the worst diseases!
No really big UO's from me this week. I need to think of a good one for next week!
Honest question, is delayed schedule for vaccines really bad? I have a friend spread them out a little because she just hated seeing her son go through so many at one time. I didn't think it was that big of a deal? Not sure now.
Delayed isn't bad as long as they get them all. I don't understand it because you are just bringing your kid in for shots more often than just having them jabbed 5 times at once. It really is easier to just do it all at once and I honestly think less traumatic for the kid. I think shots are honestly harder on the parent sometimes.
Honest question, is delayed schedule for vaccines really bad? I have a friend spread them out a little because she just hated seeing her son go through so many at one time. I didn't think it was that big of a deal? Not sure now.
Delayed isn't bad as long as they get them all. I don't understand it because you are just bringing your kid in for shots more often than just having them jabbed 5 times at once. It really is easier to just do it all at once and I honestly think less traumatic for the kid. I think shots are honestly harder on the parent sometimes.
Totally agree. DD cried for max 30 seconds each time and then was completely back to normal. The only one she had a reaction to was the MMR (which is pretty typical since it's the first live vaccine they get), and even that was just one restless night with a fever, treated with Tylenol and a snuggle day. Way easier to treat than measles, mumps or rubella.
I just don't get the point of delaying or spreading out vaccines, unless there is a valid medical reason for it, but I wouldn't consider ending a friendship over it. If a friend chose to completely forego vaccinating their kids for any reason other than valid medical reasons, our friendship would for sure be at risk - mostly because I wouldn't want my kids around theirs and I don't have a ton of kid-free spare time, but also because I wouldn't be able to keep my mouth shut and mind my business.
That's the biggest problem with anti-vaxxers- often the most vulnerable are the elderly, the children allergic to vaccines/or who can't otherwise have them for medical reasons, and infants.
Recently a few friends said they're not doing them because of SIDS. I think a lot of them have stepped back from the autism thing because that's been so thoroughly debunked and now they're just in the big pharma is the worst we don't know what can happen camp. I am pretty skeptical about the medical field and its relationship to the pharmaceutical industry and I have a lot of issues with the way modern medicine happens in the US, but fuck, guys. Vaccines eradicated illnesses that WIPED OUT POPULATIONS. Why would you want to bring that shit back?
Wait, now they're using SIDS as their scapegoat? Vaccines don't cause SIDS either. Oh, I can't even with these people.
I was also wondering who was on the shit list, when the talk of a bitch out a bumpie thread came up, and started thinking back over my posts wondering if I'd said something offensive at some point. I am in the camp of being cool with being called out if I say something flameworthy. I have a pretty thick skin and can take constructive criticism when needed.
I never saw that original post about the stepson - that's really sad and I hope it was just a bad day. Whoever wrote that, if you're reading this thread, I really hope this is eye opening for you to realize how awful of a thing that was to say about an innocent child. Especially a child who may already feel like he's being abandoned by his mother, and now is living in a home with his father's new family. I really, really hope you just had an off moment, and said something in the safe anonymity of an online forum that you would never say in real life. I hope that really you love that boy and make him feel like a valued member of his family. If not, my heart breaks for that little boy. Kids are really good at picking up on adult's emotional shit and not very good at understanding that it's not their fault.
My UO is that this app always says "you have to be logged in to do that" when I am logged in and have to log out and back in again and find what I wanted to like or comment on. Also, that I went to pick up my Rx and they wouldn't give it to me because the pharmacist was at lunch and they had to be there for some stupid reason...well let me tell you, sir, you're lucky I don't vomit on you right now so go f yourself for not having another pharmacist on duty.
I'd never thought about a call out thread but the other day I was thinking it'd be nice for us to have a love a bumpie thread for all our favorite people. There are some posters I definitely enjoy so they are on my "faves list."
I'd never thought about a call out thread but the other day I was thinking it'd be nice for us to have a love a bumpie thread for all our favorite people. There are some posters I definitely enjoy so they are on my "faves list."
We could do both? I love the positive shout out idea board as well
Not sure that this is an u/o but hubs and I do not intend to take our newborn out in public for the first two months at least (mostly because of anti-vaxxers.) when we shared this information at a Christmas gathering with aunts, uncles, parents and grandparents, it became a huge shitfest where everyone was shocked and laughed at us. Normally a great family, but I really felt ganged up on when it came to this conversation.
Not sure that this is an u/o but hubs and I do not intend to take our newborn out in public for the first two months at least (mostly because of anti-vaxxers.) when we shared this information at a Christmas gathering with aunts, uncles, parents and grandparents, it became a huge shitfest where everyone was shocked and laughed at us. Normally a great family, but I really felt ganged up on when it came to this conversation.
You do you. Personally I would go nuts. I have to get out and about and plus it is summer!
On the delayed schedule thing, I think some folks want to delay also because if the kid has some kind of reaction they'd be better able to identify. The taking the kid in more often argument won't work with them bc they'll say their kid's health is more important than the extra time it takes.
I'm not at all against a delayed schedule (I'm not talking a year here). I also don't necessarily think vaccines cause autism, but that doesn't mean I 100% trust what's in them. And I work in healthcare. UO.
@ButterMyBiscuit I'm guilty of saying nub. I just can't think of another thing to call it. Blob? Apendage? Sticky thing? I don't know and I'm too lazy and sick to think of anything else.
Re vaccines: no one is seeing my child until they have had a whooping cough vaccine. As someone who has had whooping cough, I wouldn't wish that on anyone especially someone so little. I don't care what flack I get, my child my rules. I think mil is going to have an issue with it and I think dh will try to convince me to let her see lo anyway but I don't care who you are to this child you aren't seeing it. I dare her to try to take me on about it. I have lots of pent up frustration against her so I'm ready to roll.
@LilLambie maybe let everyone know this requirement in advance? If MiL were to get the vaccine now, it wouldn't affect her ability to see her grandchild in any way so no one could be mad.
On the delayed schedule thing, I think some folks want to delay also because if the kid has some kind of reaction they'd be better able to identify. The taking the kid in more often argument won't work with them bc they'll say their kid's health is more important than the extra time it takes.
I'm not at all against a delayed schedule (I'm not talking a year here). I also don't necessarily think vaccines cause autism, but that doesn't mean I 100% trust what's in them. And I work in healthcare. UO.
I get where you're coming from. I definitely feel uncomfortable with a lot of medications and try to choose supplements/homeopathy at every possible opportunity. But I'm not cool with the idea of my kid or another person contracting a possible deadly disease because I didn't vaccinate.
I have a lot of friends who have vaccinated on a delayed schedule, and I can't say I know enough about the argument for that approach to really understand it. I'm just thankful they vaccinate at all.
@ButterMyBiscuit I'm guilty of saying nub. I just can't think of another thing to call it. Blob? Apendage? Sticky thing? I don't know and I'm too lazy and sick to think of anything else.
Re vaccines: no one is seeing my child until they have had a whooping cough vaccine. As someone who has had whooping cough, I wouldn't wish that on anyone especially someone so little. I don't care what flack I get, my child my rules. I think mil is going to have an issue with it and I think dh will try to convince me to let her see lo anyway but I don't care who you are to this child you aren't seeing it. I dare her to try to take me on about it. I have lots of pent up frustration against her so I'm ready to roll.
F me I'm stuck in a quote box... But SO MUCH THIS. I'm doing this with flu vaccines too. Cousins in law that lives with us thinks bc he drinks raw cold pressed juice he's immune to the flu and refuses to get one. Cool, have fun moving out immediately. SIL also doesn't get them. I'm telling everyone come August/Sept when they're available that it's a non negotiable.
@pandaferh I'm telling everyone when I officially announce. 'Hey guys I'm expecting. Better go get your booster shots or you won't be near bubs for a while'.
@PinkLady2015 Dh's aunt is like that. She believes red cabbage juice and garlic will cure anything. Funny thing is she's always sick. Her and her son will not be entering my house until I have a Dr's note.
I also don't want anyone kissing my baby on the mouth, as weird as that sounds to type, I'm not feeling it. And it is because the human mouth is disgusting.
I also don't want anyone kissing my baby on the mouth, as weird as that sounds to type, I'm not feeling it. And it is because the human mouth is disgusting.
I would be weirded out if someone other than myself of DH kissed the baby on the mouth.
I'm not sure I like non-sexual mouth kissing at all. I wasn't raised in a mouth kissing family and it always kind of weirds me out. I know it's not weird, and I don't know how I'll feel about it with my kid, but I really don't think I'll be cool with other people kissing my kid on the mouth.
A mini rant in response to what @LilLambie brought up: I had that same rule when my DD was born and my own mother swore her, my dad and my younger siblings that live at home had all just gotten them. I trusted her, moved on, nbd. When my DD was a few months old my mother casually started bitching that she had to schedule an appointment for my dad and it was on inconvenience blah blah. I asked what for, she said she got a notice saying he was due for Whooping cough vaccine! I bitched at my mom up one side and down the other. She told me they all had gotten it right before my DD was born! Point is, if your MIL tells you she got it, will you believe her?
Honest question, is delayed schedule for vaccines really bad? I have a friend spread them out a little because she just hated seeing her son go through so many at one time. I didn't think it was that big of a deal? Not sure now.
I think that modified schedule is probably what you're talking about? Modify just means that they spread them out and as long as you're OK taking the baby and more often, it's just as effective. You just can't forget to bring them back in for the rest of their shots.
We can never do a "bitch out a bumpie" thread... The Admins would get ban happy and the thing would be shut down in a hot second. TOU states you must "maintain a welcoming environment."
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I'm always happy to play the anti-vaxer hate game. No, it's not a decision you are making just for your child. You are making it for mine also.
And another thing, as someone who works with people with autism every single day, you're telling me the potential for DEATH by a previously eradicated disease is preferable to you than the potential for having a child with autism?? Get your head out of your a$$.
Everytime I read the word 'nub' in that thread I thought about this guy my husband deployed with who had lost both of his legs on a previous deployment. He told everyone to call him 'Sergeant Stumpy' and would take his prosthetics off and brandish his stumps at people.
Thank you for letting me get that out of my brain. It was festering there.
Married: May 16th 2015
And Chicago mix popcorn is the tits.
Recently a few friends said they're not doing them because of SIDS. I think a lot of them have stepped back from the autism thing because that's been so thoroughly debunked and now they're just in the big pharma is the worst we don't know what can happen camp. I am pretty skeptical about the medical field and its relationship to the pharmaceutical industry and I have a lot of issues with the way modern medicine happens in the US, but fuck, guys. Vaccines eradicated illnesses that WIPED OUT POPULATIONS. Why would you want to bring that shit back?
Married: May 16th 2015
No really big UO's from me this week. I need to think of a good one for next week!
I just don't get the point of delaying or spreading out vaccines, unless there is a valid medical reason for it, but I wouldn't consider ending a friendship over it. If a friend chose to completely forego vaccinating their kids for any reason other than valid medical reasons, our friendship would for sure be at risk - mostly because I wouldn't want my kids around theirs and I don't have a ton of kid-free spare time, but also because I wouldn't be able to keep my mouth shut and mind my business.
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I never saw that original post about the stepson - that's really sad and I hope it was just a bad day. Whoever wrote that, if you're reading this thread, I really hope this is eye opening for you to realize how awful of a thing that was to say about an innocent child. Especially a child who may already feel like he's being abandoned by his mother, and now is living in a home with his father's new family. I really, really hope you just had an off moment, and said something in the safe anonymity of an online forum that you would never say in real life. I hope that really you love that boy and make him feel like a valued member of his family. If not, my heart breaks for that little boy. Kids are really good at picking up on adult's emotional shit and not very good at understanding that it's not their fault.
Also, that I went to pick up my Rx and they wouldn't give it to me because the pharmacist was at lunch and they had to be there for some stupid reason...well let me tell you, sir, you're lucky I don't vomit on you right now so go f yourself for not having another pharmacist on duty.
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I'm not at all against a delayed schedule (I'm not talking a year here). I also don't necessarily think vaccines cause autism, but that doesn't mean I 100% trust what's in them. And I work in healthcare. UO.
Re vaccines: no one is seeing my child until they have had a whooping cough vaccine. As someone who has had whooping cough, I wouldn't wish that on anyone especially someone so little. I don't care what flack I get, my child my rules. I think mil is going to have an issue with it and I think dh will try to convince me to let her see lo anyway but I don't care who you are to this child you aren't seeing it. I dare her to try to take me on about it. I have lots of pent up frustration against her so I'm ready to roll.
Little boy due July 31st 2016
I have a lot of friends who have vaccinated on a delayed schedule, and I can't say I know enough about the argument for that approach to really understand it. I'm just thankful they vaccinate at all.
Married: May 16th 2015
@PinkLady2015 Dh's aunt is like that. She believes red cabbage juice and garlic will cure anything. Funny thing is she's always sick. Her and her son will not be entering my house until I have a Dr's note.
Little boy due July 31st 2016
Married: May 16th 2015
I had that same rule when my DD was born and my own mother swore her, my dad and my younger siblings that live at home had all just gotten them. I trusted her, moved on, nbd. When my DD was a few months old my mother casually started bitching that she had to schedule an appointment for my dad and it was on inconvenience blah blah. I asked what for, she said she got a notice saying he was due for Whooping cough vaccine! I bitched at my mom up one side and down the other. She told me they all had gotten it right before my DD was born!
Point is, if your MIL tells you she got it, will you believe her?
We can never do a "bitch out a bumpie" thread... The Admins would get ban happy and the thing would be shut down in a hot second. TOU states you must "maintain a welcoming environment."
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