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what's more important to you?
protecting your child against deadly, life altering diseases and preventing the spread of such diseases or being paranoid about autism and allergic reactions?
i get so irked when i read about parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated. it's none of my business what other people do, but it becomes my business when it affects the health and well-being of my child. i seriously hope anyone who does not vaccinate their children home school them and keep them secluded in their home.
i'm so angry right now. and i don't even know why. i guess i'm hormonal. it's cool if you delay and what not, but i really hope the parents of my child's classmates are responsible enough to keep their children and the child around their children safe.
ugh, ok i'm done venting.
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Re: what's more important to you?
vaccinations aren't 100%... i thought this was common knowledge?
the argument on why to vaccinate and why not to is so much more involved than the Jenny McCarthy version you just posted.
Educate yourself, then maybe you can understand both sides instead of seeing it the way you currently do.
If vaccines are so safe then what risk do unvaccinated children pose to your child that is vaccinated? Your argument in itself is flawed
Children can't get certain vaccinations until they are 6 months or even a year. Older children can pass sicknesses like mumps onto the infants. I think there was Law and Order SVU about. I'm a dork
I'm all about protecting my child against diseases and preventing the spread. Everything I could find said studies indicated that vaccinations do not CAUSE autism. I grew up with four adults in my life who were affected by polio as a child, one of them my grandpa, the other three teachers-one walked with a limp (as did my grandpa since it slowed the growth in one leg) one had a completely artificial leg, the other was in a wheel chair.
When we talked to our pediatrician about it, he told us some of these things are coming back because of people not vaccinating, and he's known to be pretty "crunchy" or whatever you'd call it, so I was actually a little surprised to hear that he was a STRONG proponant of vaccinating. Many people that I knew of went to him because they were people who didn't want to vaccinate, and thought he'd be the doctor that would stand behind them.
It does when kids are in daycare or soemthing of that sort and a toddler gets something that a baby can't be vaccinated against yet. Some vaccinations aren't given till a year old, so if you (general you, not you specifically) don't vaccinate your child, they get contract something that my child can't be vaccinated against because he's not a year old and not yet eligible for that vaccination, that is putting my child's life in danger.
the american academy of pediatrics and the cdc both report that there is no direct link between vaccinations and autism. the mmr theory is entirely coincidence based.
we live in a paranoid, sheltered, highly-sensitive society. that's the problem. people in our generation were fully vaccinated and there was no sudden "autism epidemic" so why now? i got the mmr 25 years ago. as did my friends, family, peers, etc. and i don't know any autistic people. i think children now have behavioral issues and it's easy for the parents to blame it on autism.
I did call it paranoia.... but just wanted someone to understand. When you know an autistic child, it breaks your heart to think it could have been something you did. Yes, studies have shown that isn't true... but as a parent, you worry.
A friend of mine blogged about not vaccinating not too long ago, and she got a couple of responses from people who DO have autistic children, and they said they still vaccinate, and their responses were great. I will see if I can find them.
absolutely! i worry like mad now. but i'd rather have an autistic child than a dead child.
I plan on vaccinating.. I just understand it has to be hard for people with autistic children or children with other issues and not know what causes it, you know? Seems like a constant worry.
Sorry, I wasn't implying you weren't going to vaccinate. I just thought it was very interesting a friend posted about why not to vaccinate, didn't have great research posted to go with it, but then two people with autistic children (one of them has two autistic children) responded with research adn reasons why they still do vaccinate, and posted studies that show that it doesn't cause autism. Didn't intend to imply anything about you. I can't find them right now anyway. Not sure if the person deleted them or not.
no reputable daycare
1. allows children to attend that are not vaccinated appropriately for their age
2 allows toddlers to play with infants
Oh, I know!
If you find the post let me know... Night!
In 48 states, there are medical, religious, and, in some cases, parental preference exemptions for vaccinations.
I don't think that vaccines necessarily CAUSE a lot of the things that people are talking about, but I do feel that vaccines and/or the schedule can trigger certain conditions. Our immune systems are amazingly intricate and doctors and scientists admit that there is a great deal that they don't know about it. Yet with every vaccine, they are altering it... maybe there's no correlation between vaccines and autism, Type 1 diabetes, alzheimer's and all the other auto-immune diseases, which have seen rises in the last few decades, but do we really know? No, we don't.
I completely agree that I would rather risk the adverse affects of a vaccine than take the chance that my child contract polio or some other equally debilitating/deadly disease, but I also believe that some vaccines are much too new to be mandated and vaccinate against conditions that are RARELY serious... chicken pox? YES, it can be bad, but in the vast majority of cases, it's a week-long illness that's uncomfortable and inconvenient. Now, if my child does not get it naturally before she reaches 11 or 12, then she will get the vaccine, since it gets much more serious the older you get. But we still don't know how long it lasts and how effective it is at certain stages. B/c of the risks of birth defects and passing it along to a child in the 3rd trimester, I would much rather she develop natural immunity than to have to wonder when she gets pg whether her vaccine is still going to protect her or not.
Bottom line, it's a parent's choice to weigh the risks for their child. We won't get the season flu vaccines, varicella, rotavirus, and will delay everything because that's what makes me feel most comfortable. I SAH, breastfeed until 2 years, we live in a city with a low immigrant/foreign visitor population... I don't feel that we're risking too much by going that route. But I also know that our thoughts, beliefs and methods don't apply to everyone, and I won't judge them for doing what they feel is best for their families.
Many daycare centers require vaccinations, just like schools. I'm all for vaccinating against diseases that are very serious-but stuff like chicken pox, I don't really "get".
I agree. How is your child going to build up their own defences when we just keep pumping them with stuff changing the way their bodies react to it normally? Your children are going to get sick no matter what you do, protect them against what you can but let them be human.
Ever seen someone die of post-varicella encephalitis? Measles encephalitis (1/1000 cases of measles gets this - there is no treatment). An infant die from whooping cough? Many people today do not have experience with the illnesses AND THEIR COMPLICATIONS that current vaccines prevent. H. Flu used to be a common cause of death from meningitis and Strep pneumo meningitis is all but gone (both due to vaccines). Autism is NOT caused by vaccination (or thimerasol). And one of the reasons it is "more common" now is because the diagnostic criteria have changed. Twenty years ago, a child may have been labeled "developmental delay" and now they are "autistic". The child is the same, but the "diagnosis" name has changed. Watch a child die from a preventable illness and then tell me why you don't "get" it.