Has anyone regretted their decision not to vaccinate?

Educated Father Of 1 Beautiful Little - posted on 06/12/2013

LO was born in July of 2012. We opted out of vaccinating after intensive research and self-educating. To this day, (She'll be 1 yr old in 1 month and 7 days) She has never been sick once. Not one fever, not one ear infection, not one detrimental health issue, what so ever. She is fully breastfeed, which by human nature, gives entirely enough structure to build and form a proper immune system, without lab created poisons. We do not plan to vaccinate at all and are more than satisfied with this decision. I hope this helps some of the "on the fence" mothers and fathers and promotes personal education on this matter. Many of my close friends and families children are constantly in and out of hospice and doctor care at such a young age, and being formula feed around other sick children is not the only culprit for this.. Its the big pharmacy vaccines that are intentionally poisoning these children's immune system. I really hope this helps and answers your question. No regret what so ever.

Jacqui - posted on 05/22/2013

I have a 13 year old who was last vaccinated at 4 years old, and a 9 year old who has severe autism who was last vaccinated at 2. Neither of my children have died or become ill with anything other than a cold since stopping. They used to get ear infections and I had to bring them to the pediatrician a lot back when we were vaccinating. I was on the other side of the debate thinking there were terrible non vaccinating parents in the world but then watched my children's health slowly decline and realized it was all due to the vaccines. I got informed and have never regretted my decision not to harm my children. I will also take my chances with "deadly" diseases rather than purposely give my kids chronic diseases that they will have to suffer with forever. I just wish I had been informed sooner, then maybe my child could speak a word or go to the bathroom on the potty or have a bowel movement without a colonic.

Lucy - posted on 04/11/2013

I know many who now regret vaccinating, but I've never heard it the other way around.

Chelsie - posted on 04/03/2013

Any parents wanting to read the true facts about vaccines and their safety should educate themselves by reading the following: "Vaccines: Are they really safe and effective?" by Neil Z. Miller. It's a short and concise book giving you the true facts about each disease and its symptoms, death rates, adverse reactions, vaccine ingredients, clinical trials, studies, and much much more. After reading the statistics and educating myself about the vaccine ingredients I chose not to vaccine my son as I feel it is much riskier for him to receive the vaccine than go unvaccinated. I truthfully believe that vaccinations are pushed as a money making scheme and that most of the diseases being vaccinated against were already in decline before the vaccines were manufactured, not because of mass vaccinations. I wish that more parents and doctors would educate themselves about what is really inside of some of these vaccines: formaldehyde, aluminum hydroxide and even aborted fetal tissue!!! I would never allow someone to inject my son with these horrifying carcinogens as well as the cells of the poor babies who were killed by their own mothers! Why don't people seek the truth!

Bailey - posted on 08/13/2012

Also, this: "Yes, people can still get whooping cough if they have been vaccinated but that is rare." is an absolutely false statement. Up to 90% of the people who contract pertussis ARE fully vaccinated. Further, research shows that the current DTaP vaccine can actually facilitate infection with pertussis, because it only protects against certain strains. Animals injected with the current vaccine and then infected with B. parapertussis showed a 40-fold increase in infection rate, because that strain is vaccine-resistant! That is shocking, and it absolutely baffles me that people continue to blame these outbreaks on un-vaccinated children. Here is the study if you care to take a look:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20200...

Bailey - posted on 08/13/2012

Important to note is that Dr. Wakefield ultimately lost his license because he took blood samples from the children at his son's birthday party for the control group (he had permission from the children's parents, and the children were paid for their help). The findings of his study were never disputed, and he did not falsify data. That claim was made by the media, not by the courts, or by the scientific community. The truth is that many scientists and laboratories around the world have confirmed Dr. Wakefield's findings regarding severe gastrointestinal inflammation (caused by the MMR vaccine) and symptoms in a high percentage of children with autism.

He was absolved of the other allegations against him - that he failed to disclose financial conflicts of interest, (there were none)that the tests performed on the sick children were medically unnecessary, (the children were sick, and the tests were intended to help them) the children in the study were selected for litigation purposes, not referred by local physicians (parents started contacting Dr. Wakefield long before the litigation started, and independently of it). All of the allegations were false. Did Dr. Wakefield deserve to lose his license and reputation because he used unconventional methods to conduct his study? No! He was made an example of. His research was sound, and the findings were valid. No one (except the media, and I'm pretty sure Dr. Wakefield is now suing them) ever suggested otherwise.

Further, encephalopathy is listed in the MMR package insert as an adverse reaction to the vaccine, and it's well known that encephalopathy causes autism. Really, it's common sense that there is a connection.

Amanda - posted on 08/12/2012

LaRae - I have educated myself and I encourage you to do the same about the other side of the debate. The information you are providing is false...there is a slew of doctors and researchers that are coming out and saying that much of the old science being vaccines is not accurate. And not to mention that most of our vaccines are being outsourced to CHINA - I wouldn't put anything in my or my kids' bodies made in that country.

Pink - posted on 08/12/2012

Larae "The only person who ever suggested that it did lost his license " not true as in he is not the only one.
Donald Trump now supports the correlation too. Don't tell me HE makes no sense too now.

LaRae - posted on 08/09/2012

Amanda. Yes, disease is a scare tactic to get people's kids vaccinated. You're right.

"Most of the diseased vaccinated against are normally non-fatal. " Yes, the non-deadly flu, polio, yellow fever, whooping cough, etc. Those 2.6 million people who die from measles - well, they were unnecessary - right?

Landon, in the story above, died because he could not have yet been vaccinated. However, had he been one week older (the age where he could have been vaccinated) but his parents were just running late, he would have still died. Your kids can die. Yes, people can still get whooping cough if they have been vaccinated but that is rare. Usually it is improperly protected adults who give infants whooping cough and sometimes kill them. Babies are not the only people who need to be properly vaccinated.

"We have two people in our family that have been affected - one with austistic symptoms and the other with Asperger's."

Vaccines do not cause autism. Period. If you are on a website that says it does, you are on a non-sense website. The only person who ever suggested that it did lost his license for faking those results, and the paper that started that scare was retracted.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...

"educate yourself"

I encourage you to do the same. There is a free, online, class about vaccines, taught by a child immunologist from Princeton University. It is very good at explaining vaccines and has a whole section about common questions and concerns.

https://www.coursera.org/course/vaccines

Amanda - posted on 08/08/2012

LaRae - Obviously, you have never even been through the site. It has information directly from the CDC, vaccine injury websites, and a TON of other information to educate yourself. We have two people in our family that have been affected - one with austistic symptoms and the other with Asperger's. Most of the diseased vaccinated against are normally non-fatal. Chicken pox vaccine? Gimme a break.

Amanda - posted on 08/08/2012

LaRae - this is nothing but a scare tactic used to get people to vaccinate their kids. It is sad that Landon died, however, at 5 weeks old he wouldn't have been old enough to get the vaccine anyway. DTap isn't in the schedule until babies are 8 weeks old. The story would have ended the same way regardless.

Bailey - posted on 08/08/2012

My twins had the RSV vax, and they still got RSV. My unvaccinated daughter was under a year old at the time, and she got it too. Her case was milder and she was over it more quickly than her older brothers. There is a lot of misinformation out there from both sides. I think it's important to know the TRUTH about the diseases and how to treat them. Having that knowledge is really empowering. Your risks of having a bad reaction from a vaccine are much greater than your risks of having a bad reaction from these mild (they truly are mild in most healthy people) diseases.

Steph - posted on 08/08/2012

LaRae- The child you talk about was NOT old enough to get the vaccine in the first place. So vaccines are not even an issue- many people can be carriers without being sick, even if they have been vaxed!!!

LaRae - posted on 08/08/2012

Amanda. Thinktwice is a website for non-sense, not facts.

LaRae - posted on 08/08/2012

Steph. Those diseases are rare because most people are vaccinated. Before the vaccine 2.6 million people a year died of measles internationally and about 9,000 people in the US died of whooping cough.

LaRae - posted on 08/08/2012

SPOILER: Gabrielle "Brie" Romaguera dies of whooping cough at the end of this story. This baby died, DIED because she was not vaccinated. This can be your child.

Brie was born on January 13, 2003, weighing only 5 pounds and 12 ounces. Brie was perfectly healthy until early one Saturday morning, February 8, when she began to have a severe cough. Her parents' suspected respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and their pediatrician told them to take Brie to the ER. There, the doctors did some tests and decided that Brie simply had a cold, and gave her parents a prescription.

By Tuesday Brie was still coughing so her parents took her to the pediatrician's office for a breathing treatment. She still did not get any better, and by Wednesday evening her father and mother were taking turns sitting up with her so that they could help her when she coughed. By morning, exactly one month after Brie was born, she was coughing so hard she turned blue around her mouth. The pediatrician sent Brie and her parents straight to the local hospital but, after watching Brie pass out after another violent coughing fit, he made the decision to Helivac Brie to a larger hospital.

When Brie arrived at the hospital, tests revealed she had severe acid reflux, and the doctors thought that she was choking on her milk. They decided a surgery would correct the problem, but when Brie came out of surgery the coughing had still not stopped. The doctors tested her for pertussis (also known as whooping cough) and decided to treat her for the disease while they waited for the test results to return. The test results came back positive, but the treatment wasn’t given early enough.

The first machine they put Brie on was a ventilator. When that did not help, they decided to put Brie on the ECMO machine. This helped her breathe and helped her heart so that her body could try to heal. She then started to leak fluid into her tissues, and this caused her to blow up to about ten times her normal size. She was put on dialysis and also had a tube put in her stomach to help release some of the fluid. She finally began to show signs of recovery as well as some activity in her brain, until it began to bleed. Because she was on ECMO she also had to receive heparin, which is a blood thinner. The thinning of her blood caused the bleeding in her brain. It clotted later that day, but then the opposite side of her brain began bleeding.

The doctors had to take Brie off the ECMO machine. On March 6, they called Brie's parents to explain their daughter's situation and give the family enough time to come and say their goodbyes to her. Brie's mother held her one last time and rocked her while Brie's father read her a story. She lived for about 30 minutes after they turned off the machine. She was only 52 days old and just 7 days short of receiving her 1st DTaP shot.

Steph - posted on 08/07/2012

Dana i wouldn't know about highly educated my ex aunt in law is the dumbest thing going she would believe you if you told her the sky is green. i do know my next door neighbour regretted not vaccinating after her oldest son died of measles she then sort to get her daughter vaccinated but unfortunately she ended up getting whopping cough and passing away before she could be vaccinated

Wow Sara- it seems that this family must have some sort of compromised immune system in order to have 2 children catch and DIE of 2 different rare diseases. Very rare!

Personally, the people I know who don't vaccinate are very smart, generally have college degrees or higher and a few are actually doctors. Each of them has chosen not to vaccinate for specific reasons.

Proud - posted on 07/31/2012

Nope, I think I've became even prouder of my choice :)

Paula - posted on 07/30/2012

I have never regretted it :)

LaRae - posted on 07/29/2012

Yes, there are people who regretted it.

"Landon Carter Dube

On January 15, 2010, five-week old Landon Carter Dube went in to his doctor's office for a check-up. Carter's parents expressed concerns that he had been mildly spitting up his formula and seemed to be fussy when he went to sleep at night. The doctor suggested switching Carter's formula and monitoring his crying, but warned that the change may cause him to spit up more. After his parents switched his formula, Carter's parents noticed a change in their son. On Tuesday, January 19, his mother took his temperature and found him to be running a fever of 100.1. They immediately brought him back to visit the pediatrician.

Carter's breathing rate alarmed the nurses who treated him, prompting them to transfer Carter to Levine's Children's Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina. Carter was admitted to the Progressive Care Unit while the doctors speculated RSV, pneumonia, upper respiratory infection and pertussis (whooping cough) as possible diagnoses. Carter's first pertussis test didn't yield an accurate reading, so it had to be redone. After receiving a positive diagnosis for pertussis, Carter was admitted nasal oxygen and taken for chest x-rays while doctors suctioned his nose and lungs.

Carter seemed to be stable by Thursday, January 21 and his doctor decided if his progress continued, he would be able to go home as early as Saturday morning. But that Friday, Carter started coughing, lost his breath and turned blue, prompting doctors to send Carter to the PICU for observation. Early Sunday, the doctor's decided to put Carter on a respiratory breathing device. This would be the last time Carter's family would see him awake.

Later on Sunday, Carter was put on an Oscillator because his fragile body wasn't strong enough to handle the respiratory machine. On Tuesday evening, surgeons implanted an ECMO machine in Carter to provide cardiac and respiratory support. Carter emerged from the surgery with tubing down the side of his neck and ECMO technicians monitoring the status of his oxygen flow. His inability to release urine and the stress from his illness forced his tiny body to swell to nearly twice its size.

On January 28, the doctor's offered the last available medicines they hoped would treat Carter's debilitating illness. The medicine was administered around 3:30 P.M. on Thursday, January 28. After a half an hour, Carter's family was forced to say their goodbyes. Carter's IV in his foot was now completely blown and doctors were no longer receiving a reading of his blood pressure. His kidneys had completely stopped working, leaving his fragile body unable to handle the rigors of dialysis. At 5:06 that evening, Carter passed away from pertussis, leaving his family devastated and confused as to how this could happen so quickly.

Despite this tragedy, Carter's family is adamant about sharing their story with others, in an effort to prevent other children from suffering from vaccine-preventable diseases. "
http://www.vaccinateyourbaby.org/why/vic...

Not vaccinating your children is dangerous for your children and everyone around you. Anti-vaxx hysteria isn't based on anything but an unsubstantiated fear.

Catherine - posted on 10/19/2011

My guess would be there aren't many who regret it because if you change your mind it is very easy to get vaccinated. Getting unvaccinated on the other hand is impossible and thus easier to regret.

Amanda - posted on 06/02/2011

An excellent site with factual information about vaccines - http://thinktwice.com/

Jill - posted on 05/14/2011

I've never regretted it. My son seems to be sick less often than the kids I know that have been vaccinated. Also, if he is sick, it only lasts a few days.

Happy - posted on 03/24/2011

I have never regretted my decision to not vaccinate. I am college educated and hopefully people do not see me as ignorant.

Sarah - posted on 03/01/2011

Dana i wouldn't know about highly educated my ex aunt in law is the dumbest thing going she would believe you if you told her the sky is green. i do know my next door neighbour regretted not vaccinating after her oldest son died of measles she then sort to get her daughter vaccinated but unfortunately she ended up getting whopping cough and passing away before she could be vaccinated

Elfrieda - posted on 02/03/2011

We're delaying vaccinating our son. (until an unspecified "before school" date) If he caught measles or something and got one of those really rare, really serious complications that resulted in him going blind or dying, yes, I would be really upset that we didn't vaccinate him against it.
But more in the "if only I hadn't driven on that road at that day" kind of regret that we have when we get into a car accident. I think I would make the same decision again, because there are risks in getting the vaccine and risks in not getting it. You have to decide which risks to take.

Bailey - posted on 02/03/2011

BTW, if you are on the fence regarding whether or not to vaccinate, here are a couple of helpful links:

Interview with a retired vaccine researcher:

http://www.alternative-doctor.com/vaccin...

Report signed by over 80 doctors who state on record that "vaccines pose a significant risk of harm to the health of children." This one is really good. You can download the report for free, and there are many useful links available.

http://www.naturalnews.com/031173_vaccin...

Bailey - posted on 02/03/2011

Never regretted not vaccinating. Never will. We vaccinate homeopathically. Since modern vaccinations are based on homeopathy, it seems perfectly logical and reasonable that homeopathic vaccines would work just as well if not better. We got a children's homeopathic vaccine kit that contains all of the vaccines in the "recommended schedule." I feel very secure in knowing that my children are protected from these diseases.

Rilla - posted on 10/06/2010

To Laura: here is a link that you may find interesting about vaccines. the website itself isn't that attractive, it is made by a docto herself, but the material you can find there is plenty and reliable: http://www.vaccinetruth.org/

Leslie Anne - posted on 09/26/2010

I read this thread the other day just before taking my 9 month old daughter to her new pediatrician. He had almost convinced me to get the polio vaccine for her, just the amount that they normally give at two months, when the nurse came in with a needle full of 6 vaccines to administer together. It turns out that it is too difficult to measure a small enough dose of any one vaccine for it to be safe for a baby so they mix them all together first. I was furious that he had tried to "pull one over on me" by telling me he would give just polio, and he refused to come back into the room to even discuss it. I thought of this thread and it helped me to make my decision not to get any vaccines for my daughter as a baby. I can always decide to get her some later before she starts school, but I can never take back what I do now. Thanks ladies!

Mandy - posted on 09/05/2010

Laura, I just finished reading a great book by Robert S. Mendelsohn, "How to Raise a Healthy Child... In Spite of Your Doctor." He very simply explains the diseases vaccines are designed to protect us from and surprisingly, Dr. Mendelsohn says most of them do not even require a visit to the doctor because there's nothing the doctor can do that your child's body won't do on it's own. When I started my research, I didn't realize that only in rare cases are most of them life-threatening anyway. And, like you said, even with the vaccine you can still get these diseases and the immunity from vaccines does not last even five years in some cases (rubella in particular), but in some cases if you contract the disease and naturally fight it off your immunity lasts a lifetime. A really fascinating book!

Laura Zoey - posted on 09/03/2010

but ps i dont do flu vax because flu wont kill you if its attended to early and even with the vax its not 100% effective. you could get the flu anyways. So Im talking more about the serious, life threatening diseases we vaccinate from.

Laura Zoey - posted on 09/03/2010

I have given them to my son because I read about outbreaks of those diseases recently in places where many people didnt vaccinate. like when mmr was thought to cause autism there was an outbreak of children getting sick and some dying. So id rather leave the olden days dieases in the history, and keep them out of our society. I never thought that there were parents not vacinating. I think it sounds like an obvious choice cuz people died soooo much from these diseases and finally we have a cure, and now people wont use it.

I do want to know why moms are not doing it and if the proof is sound I will 'join' the non vacinating side. But Id need some proof that kids are more likely to die from the vacines then from the diseases they prevent.



please inform me! I am willing to change my opinion if I can see some facts.

Karen - posted on 08/26/2010

Haven't done any vac's yet for my almost 2 year old. I feel good about that decision. I may revisit it when she's school age, but for now, we're totally happy with our decision.

Racheal - posted on 08/20/2010

wow dana good for you for going with your instincts!!! it obviously saved your child!!!

Dana - posted on 08/20/2010

Rachel, I know exactly what you mean, although I'm afraid not to and afraid to if that makes sense. I read everything I can get my hands on both for and against.
I am however unbeliebably grateful I followed my better judgement and threw a letter out that I received from our government (I live in Western Australia) urging me to vaccinate my child against the flu. A couple months later this same vaccine caused a great number of high fevers and febrile convulsions, and has left one little girl brain damaged here in Western Australia, and I believe one dead in Queensland. Remarkably, that vaccine was then banned for children under 5.

Racheal - posted on 08/18/2010

i have gotten my 5 yr old and my 9 mo all of there shots and i do not regret getting them...i feel i am an "alternative mother" however i did get vac and circs...i dont dis anyone that has i was just to affraid not to

Luschka - posted on 07/22/2010

What a fantastic question and a REALLY good point! I don't know anyone who hasn't who has regretted it either!

Rachel - posted on 07/10/2010

That's a great question! My oldest is only three, so I haven't had a chance to regret our decision yet. I'd also like to know if anyone has regretted their decision.

Abbey - posted on 07/10/2010

Never! Something can always happen, they will always get sick, that's just mother nature. You can't completely protect them and that's how it should be! My feelings are~there's a chance they can catch something whether they are vaccinated or not. But it is obvious vaccines do/have caused damage to our health. By giving my children vaccines I am proactively putting something in them that can cause them harm. I would rather NOT interfere with their immune system and only mess with mother nature on occasion, vs. toxins and the damages they cause.