Vaccine Poll

krisd87

I have been researching up a storm but am curious on parents opinions. I delayed with my first and considered skipping them, or at least some, but his father did it without my knowledge or consent so my choice was taken from me before I had made a decision. Now DH and I have been discussing what we plan to do with baby #2.[Poll]

winomom22

The risk of death or injury from the illnesses vaccinated against far outweigh any potential risk from the vaccine itself. With more and more people not vaccinating, we are losing the herd immunity and increasing the likelihood of these often fatal illnesses returning and spreading (which they are). Not vaccinating puts newborns and people who cannot get vaccinations at risk. 

Sunflower7777

How common is it to refuse all vaccines? I have heard of delaying, but I am genuinely wondering what the reasons would be to not get your child vaccinated at all. 

Mrs Manners

We delayed chicken pox and MMR until 3. We did split some of the vaccines across multiple appointments as well. 

tarebear9891

naybride04:

The risk of death or injury from the illnesses vaccinated against far outweigh any potential risk from the vaccine itself. With more and more people not vaccinating, we are losing the herd immunity and increasing the likelihood of these often fatal illnesses returning and spreading (which they are). Not vaccinating puts newborns and people who cannot get vaccinations at risk. 

This is very well said. Herd immunity is so important, it protects those with weak immune systems that can't get vaccinated.

DandelionMom

We delayed and split some vaccines.  My pedi had an alternative schedule for us to follow.  We had medical reasons to do this. 

newenglandmomm

What vaccines do people skip? Don't you need most of them to get into schools/day cares?

Rebekah1021

naybride04:

The risk of death or injury from the illnesses vaccinated against far outweigh any potential risk from the vaccine itself. With more and more people not vaccinating, we are losing the herd immunity and increasing the likelihood of these often fatal illnesses returning and spreading (which they are). Not vaccinating puts newborns and people who cannot get vaccinations at risk. 

I feel the same way. I didn't just blindly go with the the guidelines, but had a good conversation with the pedi about it. We also travel a lot and I don't want to expose my DD to anything from others because they don't vaccinate. 

august06mom

naybride04:

The risk of death or injury from the illnesses vaccinated against far outweigh any potential risk from the vaccine itself. With more and more people not vaccinating, we are losing the herd immunity and increasing the likelihood of these often fatal illnesses returning and spreading (which they are). Not vaccinating puts newborns and people who cannot get vaccinations at risk. 

All of this. My nephew has a compromised immune system and cannot receive many vaccinations, so we part of the reason we vax is to keep him safe.

penguingrrl

We vaccinate mostly on schedule. My older daughter had severe reactions to her first two series of shots, so since then we have limited the kids to 1-2 shots per visit then have extra visits as needed to keep them up to date. Since cutting the number of shots her reactions have gotten manageable (prior to that it was over a week of a high fever that did not respond to tylenol, now it's only a day or two of fever), so we'll stick with spacing them. But I would never risk leaving her susceptible to these diseases. As badly as she reacts to just the vaccines I know she would become very ill with the actual viruses.

p1nklemonade

i picked "other." our pedi's office automatically does the 0-12 month vaccines on a delayed scheduled.  for example, we didn't get 4 shots at 8 weeks, we got 2, and got another 2 a month later.  so all the shots needed in the first year are given within that year, just spaced so that you get no more than 2 shots per visit.  this isn't why we chose that office, but i have no problem with it.

virginiamorse

naybride04:

The risk of death or injury from the illnesses vaccinated against far outweigh any potential risk from the vaccine itself.  

I disagree with this.  The research I've done (CDC, WHO) is that roughly the same percentage of children are seriously injured/killed by a given vaccine as are by the disease in any given year.  VAERS exists for a reason.

My son was vaccinated on schedule (except for DTaP, which I wanted delayed).  By the time he was 15 months old it was becoming obvious that there was something wrong with him, at that point I stopped all vaccines.  Not because I thought that vaccines had caused anything, but because if there was something wrong with his brain I didn't want ANYTHING that could potentially further that problem put into his body if I could help it.  (At that time we also went organic, whole food, no chemical soaps, lotions, etc all in an effort to reduce the neurotoxins that he was exposed to).  So anyway, he isn't fully immunized.  And he is Autistic/Apraxic.

My daughters, I've been very cautious with them, also do my best to reduce the neurotoxins that they are exposed to.  They are typically developing, but I (with the blessing of their pedi) have decided to give them HIB and Prevnar only at this point.  The plan is as they age to re-evaluate, for example, if they haven't had chicken pox naturally by age 10 (and we'll check titers too) they will get the vaccine (this goes for my son too).

If my son wasn't Autistic, I'm sure I would have done the recommended schedule (maybe some delayed but they would have gotten them all).  I believe in herd immunity and I don't want my children to get sick/die, but for US neurological impairment is the greater risk at this point.  And their pedi and developmental pedi agree with me.

Dr. Sears Vaccine Book is a good resource if you haven't read it.  Also check out the CDC and WHO sites, read the vaccine inserts.  Educate yourself and make the decision that is best for YOUR family.  You are the one that has to live with the decision.

MirandaHobbes

To the PP who asked about who doesn't vaccinate at all-- I know a family who hasn't. They home school, eat organically, and are pretty health conscious people.

My own son has ASD. We vaccinated on schedule and will do so if we have another child.

winomom22

virginiamorse:

naybride04:

The risk of death or injury from the illnesses vaccinated against far outweigh any potential risk from the vaccine itself.  

I disagree with this.  The research I've done (CDC, WHO) is that roughly the same percentage of children are seriously injured/killed by a given vaccine as are by the disease in any given year.  VAERS exists for a reason.

My son was vaccinated on schedule (except for DTaP, which I wanted delayed).  By the time he was 15 months old it was becoming obvious that there was something wrong with him, at that point I stopped all vaccines.  Not because I thought that vaccines had caused anything, but because if there was something wrong with his brain I didn't want ANYTHING that could potentially further that problem put into his body if I could help it.  (At that time we also went organic, whole food, no chemical soaps, lotions, etc all in an effort to reduce the neurotoxins that he was exposed to).  So anyway, he isn't fully immunized.  And he is Autistic/Apraxic.

My daughters, I've been very cautious with them, also do my best to reduce the neurotoxins that they are exposed to.  They are typically developing, but I (with the blessing of their pedi) have decided to give them HIB and Prevnar only at this point.  The plan is as they age to re-evaluate, for example, if they haven't had chicken pox naturally by age 10 (and we'll check titers too) they will get the vaccine (this goes for my son too).

If my son wasn't Autistic, I'm sure I would have done the recommended schedule (maybe some delayed but they would have gotten them all).  I believe in herd immunity and I don't want my children to get sick/die, but for US neurological impairment is the greater risk at this point.  And their pedi and developmental pedi agree with me.

Dr. Sears Vaccine Book is a good resource if you haven't read it.  Also check out the CDC and WHO sites, read the vaccine inserts.  Educate yourself and make the decision that is best for YOUR family.  You are the one that has to live with the decision.

If you contract one of those illnesses you are at a much greater risk of injury or death than you would be getting vaccinated. I don't really think you can fairly compare the two percentages since your chance of getting one of those illnesses isn't very high due to the herd immunity and vaccines-that is why the percentages are about equal. Now if more people choose not to vaccinate the rates of people getting these illnesses will go up and so will the injury and death rates from these illnesses. 

monkeyqueen

We followed our province's regular schedule.  I could find no compelling reason not to, but a lot of reasons to follow it.

shibby00

We vaccinate on schedule, period.

jehprb

We delayed but not on a specific schedule - we just didn't want him to have more than one vax per visit.  I remember his first visit at 1 month old they wanted to give him FOUR injections and I so wasn't ok with that.  I'd much rather make extra trips to the ped.

DS is 6 and in K right now and he's had everything he's "supposed" to have except for varicella - we're still holding off on that one for now but unless he actually gets chicken pox in the next couple of years he'll be getting the vax eventually.

 Oh, and we never do the flu shot if that counts.

Angela814

naybride04:

The risk of death or injury from the illnesses vaccinated against far outweigh any potential risk from the vaccine itself. With more and more people not vaccinating, we are losing the herd immunity and increasing the likelihood of these often fatal illnesses returning and spreading (which they are). Not vaccinating puts newborns and people who cannot get vaccinations at risk. 

 

stellasam

Mrs Manners:

We delayed chicken pox and MMR until 3. We did split some of the vaccines across multiple appointments as well. 

Same here, except we still haven't done chicken pox- prob will at 4 years...