
Kayli - posted on 01/28/2012 ( 142 moms have responded )
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Well ever since my son was born I have been thinking about vaccinations. I know it was a normal thing that wasn't much thought about back in the day like when I was little i received all routine vaccines as I'm sure most of us did. But after all the new thoughts and issues raised on vaccines and thoughts on them being linked to Autism. Also hearing and reading personal stories. I am not sure what to think. The topic was even brought up in one of my college courses. I've done some of my own research and I found that when I was young I think there were about 8 recommended vaccinations, and today there are at least 14! Also with this of course there has been a rise in the diagnoses of Autism. I do not know if they are linked, but it just seems kind of interesting,
So my son is 6 months old and due for his check up and next round of shots. So far for his 2 and 4 months he has received routine vaccinations. But each time this issue has been a worry on my mind and it always is. I understand some of the vaccines, but are all really necessary? What if there is some link? I don't want to have these vaccines given to my son then someday it affects him and it is irreversible, I am pretty scared of that.I have read about alternative schedules. I don't really think of not having any at all, but just are they all necessary? I am still researching but I am also wondering others thoughts and views??
~Kayli
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Nikki - posted on 01/29/2012
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Even if vaccines "did" cause Autism (which they 100% certainly do not) I would still prefer an Autistic child over a child who died of a preventable disease. I couldn't live with myself if I made the choice not to vaccinate and something happened to my child. Vaccines are safe for the majority of the population.
Jodi - posted on 02/06/2012
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What would happen if we stopped vaccinations? Read this article from the CDC.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/what...
Basically, since these diseases are not eradicated world wide, if everyone stopped getting vaccinated, or even the majority stopped, these diseases would return. It's easy to forget history and how aweful polio was, or smallpox (which has been eradicated globally) or any disease. I for one, will keep getting my boosters and keep getting my children vaccinated (on a modified schedule) until they are eradicated.
I could not find any *reliable* site that reported actual figures of vaccine related deaths per year or anything. granted, I didn't look *that* hard, but if anyone finds one I would love to read it! :) Best of luck with your decision.
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First of all there is NO proven link to autism with vaccines, the MMR was suggested to cause autism in some children but it was proven the dr suggesting this made it up, it was not true!
As for vaccines, I feel it is socially irresponsible not to vaccinate your child, unless there is good reason such as allergy. Look at the diseases we vaccinate against, they are far worse than the vaccinations, I know this for fact, I had mumps as an adult due to a mistake meaning I and many others my age missed a booster vaccination, I'd rather have had that and any slight side effects than mumps.
Saying that I know there are vaccines that are given elsewhere in the world that we (in the uk) do not have, these I think are not as necessary, because if they were wouldn't we have them too? They are the chicken pox vaccine, the rotovirus vaccine and the flu vaccine (the NHS routinely gives it to at risk people, such as the elderly, pregnant women and people with respiratory issues but normal healthy people do not have it, this includes healthy children).
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VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM...there has been NO proven link, in fact doctors do not know the exact causes of autism, so to say they do is a lie, but they have demonstrated several times that vaccines do not cause it.
Autism is rarely obvious before around 18 months and up to around 18 months children with autism develop as would be expected, maybe a little slower than other children, however as the children age it becomes apparent they are different to other children. It is difficult to determine a child under three is autistic as they could just be developmentally delayed although there are things that make it fairly obvious in some children before then. With or without vaccines children who have autistism will present obvious symptoms from around 18 months onwards, in reality they have usually been showing signs, often very mild signs for months beforehand, but they are easy to dismiss...things such as tiptoe walking and looking out of the corners of their eyes.
Oh and no-one suggested having a child with autism was an easy life, but given the choice between autism and death I know which I would choose!
Jodi - posted on 02/14/2012
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"Some vaccines are produced using aborted baby lung tissue, which are man and government profiting from the murder of our innocent children."
Oh, the propoganda. Do you even understand what you are spouting? There is not fetal tissue in any vaccines. Only the product of growth on fetal "cell lines". Do you understand what that means? Evidently not.
And on that note, all but the rubella vaccine can be obtained without this anyway. You've obviously REALLY done your research well.....not.
If you are going to choose not to vaccinate your children and potentially expose others who for whatever reason can't be vaccinated, at least do some research that doesn't involve quacks (read Dr Mercola and Dr Tenpenny) and outdated religious arguments.