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May 2014 Moms
Empireceo
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This is what happens when you don't vaccinate your kids.
Empireceo
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I just HAD to post this on my Facebook wall for the one annoying friend who's always yammering about her anti-vax, organic food lifestyle. Thought I'd post it here to because I know a lot of you would appreciate it.
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Re: This is what happens when you don't vaccinate your kids.
Thanks for this article! Hopefully people don't confuse eating and living healthier with turning their back on modern medicine! I need to share this with some FB friends as well *eye roll*!
I have a friend that is refusing to vac. her kid, it makes me crazzzyyyyyy when I listen to her go on and on about how healthy he is compared to other kids and how he is never cranky and it's all because she chose not to vac.
Mind you he also is never around other kids because she refuses to go back to work and put him in childcare (there's a lot more to the story but I won't even go there...).
Medicine being imperfect isn't a reason not to vaccinate! And I'm just not following your argument. Not getting vaccinated = good because it builds up your immune system by getting sick? The kinds of things vaccinated for are the things that KILL kids, not build up their immune system by, say, letting them eat that cheerio off the floor. And...how do you think vaccines work, if a vaccine isn't building up the immune system?
Your logic fails here. Vaccinations don't keep you from getting colds but they do keep you from getting illnesses that can kill you.
LCT - 5.15.14 ~ 9lbs, 22.5 inches
This is basically what I was going to say too, we're not vaccinating against colds and still getting sick with colds. Vaccinating against life threatening and seriously debilitating diseases is totally different. There's a reason theres the common cold and not "common polio"
It's not like we're simply talking about a flu shot, we're talking about life-threatening diseases (I realize the flu can be life-threatning also).
So true 8-}
she posted something one time about. To vaccinating for hepatitis .... Hepatitis!
I also refuse the flu vaccine. There are only 4 or so strands in it, while there are hundreds of actual flu strains. To me it's not worth it. But measles? Mumps? Hepatitis? Whooping cough? Yeah, we got those.
Ugh I hate hearing the "no one even gets *insert terrifying disease* anymore", and exactly...cause everyone's vaccinated!
I have a super vocal anti-vax fb friend that posts all the time about how breast feeding = vaccinated. Made me feel really great when I had to switch to formula at 6 weeks cause my boobs were the Sahara and DS wasn't gaining any weight
I think there's a place for integrating natural medicine with conventional medicine, but not at the penalty of your child's health. You need to do what works to keep your child healthy.
DH and I are still going back and forth about the chicken pox one. Neither of us ever had the vaccine (not sure it existed back then) and we both had chicken pox as kids. I'm not sure its necessary. But My MIL never had chicken pox as a kid and caught it from DH. It sucked for her and that sways DH towards giving our baby the vaccine.
@empireceo I also had never had the flu vax... Until i got pregnant. I decided to get it this year since I'm pregnant in the heart of sick season. DH still refuses though and I don't blame him.
We vaccinate. I do split them up and kinda do an altered alternative schedule like Dr. Sears. But we just split them by a week. The 2 month shots DD passed out after, woke up screaming inconsolably, passed back out with tylenol and slept for about 10 hours. She fell asleep on the couch and I didn't want to move her should she wake up screaming again so I dozed curled up in a ball or on the floor with my hand on her til 4am when DH woke up and was like "wtf is going on?". So, I just do an extra trip, no copay, and get half the shots the next week.
I would never be able to forgive myself if she got whooping cough or meningitis or anything else we could've prevented.
::rolls eyes :: ya okay.....
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I also refuse the flu vaccine. There are only 4 or so strands in it, while there are hundreds of actual flu strains. To me it's not worth it. But measles? Mumps? Hepatitis? Whooping cough? Yeah, we got those.
I can't help but be grateful that I actually got the flu shot this year (normally I don't). There is now a rather large H1N1 outbreak where I live and have already dealt with customers who have been in direct contact with those suffering in the hospital. This year's flu vaccine covered H1N1.
And whomever said medicine is not perfect, is correct. If it was perfect, they would have found a way to bypass my resistance to the rubella vaccine so that I and my unborn child would be protected. No such luck yet, but I am hugely pro-vaccine and will totally side-eye the parents of the other children in my children's classes the next time there is a rubella outbreak.
BFP #1 - 3/23/13 // EDD - 11/27/13 // M/MC - 5/3/13 // D&C - 5/4/13
BFP #2 - 8/26/13 // EDD - 5/10/14 // Born 5/18/14
Also, DD2 was on a delayed vax schedule due to seizures.
These are my confessions...
I am the oldest of three in my family and was the only child that did not receive the pox vaccination. While I had a very mild case of the pox when I was very young, I contracted full blown shingles at the age of 14. This was one of the most miserable experiences I've ever had to endure.
Get the damn vaccinations.
This exactly. There are some who can't have the vaccines so it's more important for those who can to get them, because there are a few people who remain unprotected, but not by choice.
Also, people often overlook kids like Asher. Asher has PID and would not be able to attend public school if we didn't have mandated vaccines in this state. Seriously, I can give Asher the pox vaccine, but his immune system is so compromised that he can still get it if he is exposed to other children who aren't vaccinated. And the pox for Asher is not going to be a "rite of childhood" it is going to be a inpatient hospital ordeal.
It is selfish not to vax, selfish.