Vaccinations?

tanyaspid

Anyone choosing not to vaccinate their baby? And if not what did you base your decision on?

mben1119

I am ensuring my son gets every vaccine he needs. Refusing vaccines is irresponsible, and the reason for the several whooping cough outbreaks around the country. If people keep this up, we can look forward to preventable diseases like measles and polio having new outbreaks as well!

PurpleDrewbie5

mabenner1:

I am ensuring my son gets every vaccine he needs. Refusing vaccines is irresponsible, and the reason for the several whooping cough outbreaks around the country. If people keep this up, we can look forward to preventable diseases like measles and polio having new outbreaks as well!

This times a million. I will never understand why anyone would choose to put their child at risk for life threatening diseases when a simple shot can prevent it. I could never imagine the grief a parent would feel after losing their child to a preventable illness.

Jennikd3

mabenner1:

I am ensuring my son gets every vaccine he needs. Refusing vaccines is irresponsible, and the reason for the several whooping cough outbreaks around the country. If people keep this up, we can look forward to preventable diseases like measles and polio having new outbreaks as well!

This.

I am not immune to Rubella, despite having had the vaccine several times. I rely on herd immunity, and if people decide to stop vaccinating their kids epidemics could start that will make a lot of people very sick.

tanyaspid

I'm not saying I don't agree with vaccinating, I just wonder how long the vaccines are actually effective for? I was vaccinated 30 years ago, does that mean if there is a rubella or polio outbreak that I will still be protected? Just makes me wonder.....

How long can they actually remain effective for? 

 

PurpleDrewbie5

tanyaspid:

I'm not saying I don't agree with vaccinating, I just wonder how long the vaccines are actually effective for? I was vaccinated 30 years ago, does that mean if there is a rubella or polio outbreak that I will still be protected? Just makes me wonder.....

How long can they actually remain effective for? 

 

Some vaccinations require boosters. Check with your doctor to make sure you are up to date on all your vaccines and boosters if you're worried. 

PurpleDrewbie5

HilarityEnsued:

Estwd2:

Anyone who chooses not to vaccinate is basing their decision on pure idiocy. Period.

Fact.  DS will get every required vaccination on schedule.  Not vaccinating is completely irresponsible and stupid.

Yes. Yes. Yes. 

I'm all about choice when it comes to parenting. Choose breast milk or formula, choose to circumcise or not circumcise, sleep with your baby or don't but for heaven's sake don't put your innocent child and other innocent children at risk because you are unsure about vaccinating. Talk to any doctor in America and get the facts. Vaccinations save lives. 

meganjoey0728

Completely agree with all previous posts. LO is up to date and will get all the vaccinations. My SIL doesn't vaccinate and it scares me!

Margaret Lemon

A 7 month old recently died in my state of whooping cough. Horrifically sad and preventable! There are now lawsuits against the author of the (totally unproven in any medical circle) "study" linking vaccines to autism. It is criminal what that has done!

People are now foregoing vaccines and this is what happens. We are on the regular vaccine schedule with our LO. I think even the spread out schedule is a bad idea.

I remember how hard (on me) all those shots were at her 2 month appt. I am SO thankful for every vaccine she has. Those poor parents of that 7 month old did not have their LO vaccinated. Who knows why.....

CobaltBlue2

The unanimity on this thread is why I like this board. 

 Yes, yes, yes.  All of you.

 

 

laurakaz13

Yep.  People who do not vaccinate are complete and utter morons.  There are no studies or research that support not vaccinating.  NONE. 

smilelari

crap.  I wrote a really long response and it got eaten.

We follow a delayed schedule.  We don't do any more than 2 vaccines at a time, with the exception of the MMR which has 3 vaccines and can't currently be separated.  We do this so that if there is a reaction we can easily determine which vaccine caused the reaction.  And, there was 1 instance with DS where that information was useful as he ended up in the ER with a high fever we couldn't get down after one of the rounds of Prevnar.

Really, we aren't even very far behind the CDC schedule.  We just go to the doctor's office a ton.

lynnblack

We are on a slightly delayed (spread out) Schedule due to LO allergies. We are and plan to vaccinate but she gets very sick if she has more than one at a time. So we wait 2-4 weeks between shots. This means more trips to the Pedi but it is worth it to keep her well.