Building Cathedrals had an interesting POST on the swine flu vaccination and the comments were good. We have decided a long time ago that we will never have the kids get the nasal sprays (it is a LIVE virus) and just too many known side effects. And this year we are opting NOT to get any of the H1N1 vaccines anyways for many reasons....many of which I agree with in this interesting read:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/03/What-We-Have-Learned-About-the-Great-Swine-Flu-Pandemic.aspx
So far we have stayed very healthy which is a huge blessing with expecting a newborn any minute. Hope you and yours are feeling well and if sick getting better!!!
Showing posts with label Vaccinations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vaccinations. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Good Reads
This is a post that appeared on one of my favorite sites, Building Cathedrals. Click HERE to check it out, all about pros and cons and advice and opinions about celebrating Halloween, All Hallows Eve, All Saints Day etc. The post is great and all the comments are even better. For us, we enjoy celebrating both. We feel fortunate to live in a pretty good neighborhood and I have such fond memories of dressing up and going door to door with my pumpkin to receive goodies. It is even more fun now to have my girls wearing the costumes I wore when I was their age. The past couple of years we have always had some friends and my youngest sister over for soup and cider and they get ready and go trick or treating. Angel had a blast last year!! We do however realize the dangers out there, some worse for others and our plans might have to change along the years. On the other hand, we love to celebrate All Saints Day as well. How fun to learn more about them and dress up like your favorite etc. I am bummed as right now our church's All Saints Day party is held on Halloween so we have to choose which to go to, wish it was actually on All Saints Day. So we shall see and I am sure traditions will change but for now...keep your eyes peeled for a couple of very cute cats!!
Another GREAT read (in my opinion) is THIS LINK to an article and interview about the truths and myths and facts about the swine flu, vaccines etc. As many of you have read in my past posts about vaccinations (which are all on my sidebar under label vaccines) it is a topic we have heavily researched over the past couple of years and made lots of decisions about and continue to do so. I feel even more confident in our decision not to get the flu shot or H1N1 vaccine right now....and so glad to hear that the New York state supreme court put a hold on the mandate that all health care workers were forced to get the vaccine or get fired....finally some confirmation and support for informed consent and personal health decisions!!! Anyways, check it out, some good information and what you will not hear in most of our biased media that loves government regulation and providing only the extreme cases to us on the nightly news! Bottom line....do the research yourself and make decisions that are best for you and your family and do not penalize others for theirs!
Another GREAT read (in my opinion) is THIS LINK to an article and interview about the truths and myths and facts about the swine flu, vaccines etc. As many of you have read in my past posts about vaccinations (which are all on my sidebar under label vaccines) it is a topic we have heavily researched over the past couple of years and made lots of decisions about and continue to do so. I feel even more confident in our decision not to get the flu shot or H1N1 vaccine right now....and so glad to hear that the New York state supreme court put a hold on the mandate that all health care workers were forced to get the vaccine or get fired....finally some confirmation and support for informed consent and personal health decisions!!! Anyways, check it out, some good information and what you will not hear in most of our biased media that loves government regulation and providing only the extreme cases to us on the nightly news! Bottom line....do the research yourself and make decisions that are best for you and your family and do not penalize others for theirs!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Meeting in the Middle
After writing my notes and thoughts on the research and decisions we have made in regard to vaccinations, I was happy to see the issue being addressed and discussed here as well. Defintely lots of food for thought out there....remember knowledge is power!
Friday, July 18, 2008
Informed Decisions
I loved Dr. Sears book, The Vaccine Book. He has an alternative and selective schedule for vaccinations. (both of which we will be altering and using for the decisions we have made in regards to all the vaccines) I have written up a summary of some of my notes that I have been taking down while doing this research over the past year. If you want details on what I have found, click HERE. But a few big things I have learned:
1) As parents, we have the responsibility and RIGHT to make the best decisions for our children. We cannot do that if we are uneducated and uninformed. I have come to realize and witness that doctors do not know the answers to the questions when it comes to vaccines. They are trained in how to treat the diseases and that starts by giving the shots. They trust the people that did the research on them, but don't know themselves what the ingredients are or how safe the side effects are. No matter what your decision about vaccination is, I HIGHLY recommend that every parent research and read up on the particulars....learn about what the disease is, what the vaccine is made up of, and what warning signs to look for. I gave two links to my favorite books in my summary page above.
2) One of the main things I learned is this: THERE ARE SOMETIMES SEVERAL VACCINE BRANDS TO CHOOSE FROM. This can make a HUGE difference when giving your child vaccines, especially if you do more than one or two at a time. Some brands do not contain the controversial and harmful things such as high Aluminum levels and animal-human contamination. MOST of the time your doctor will be giving what they have the best supply of or what they are using as a trial or what was the cheapest. Do the research and request the kind you WANT....it is safer all around! (don't use combo shots...in my opinion)
3) If you don't mind an extra trip to the doctor's office between well child checks...space your child's vaccinations out so they are only receiving ONE aluminum containing shot at a time and limiting the number of shots and amount of chemicals being put into the immune system at one time.
Learn as much as you can, be confident in your decisions and remember that any doctor that isn't willing to hear your concerns, discuss them and work out alternative options that satisfy you and protect your children...well you need a new doctor. Dr. Sears website, www.thevaccinebook.com has a neat link that shows vaccine friendly docs for each state that he knows about. www.cogforlife.org also lists updated vaccine info on its site to keep people aware of changes taking place. This has been a long and big decision process for us....but we have learned so much and feel so much more in control about the healthy decisions being made, scares me when I think of how I was at first with Angelica and just took the docs orders and recommendations and trusted that they knew best! I am still looking and hoping that Parenting Instruction Book falls into my lap and gives me all the answers!
1) As parents, we have the responsibility and RIGHT to make the best decisions for our children. We cannot do that if we are uneducated and uninformed. I have come to realize and witness that doctors do not know the answers to the questions when it comes to vaccines. They are trained in how to treat the diseases and that starts by giving the shots. They trust the people that did the research on them, but don't know themselves what the ingredients are or how safe the side effects are. No matter what your decision about vaccination is, I HIGHLY recommend that every parent research and read up on the particulars....learn about what the disease is, what the vaccine is made up of, and what warning signs to look for. I gave two links to my favorite books in my summary page above.
2) One of the main things I learned is this: THERE ARE SOMETIMES SEVERAL VACCINE BRANDS TO CHOOSE FROM. This can make a HUGE difference when giving your child vaccines, especially if you do more than one or two at a time. Some brands do not contain the controversial and harmful things such as high Aluminum levels and animal-human contamination. MOST of the time your doctor will be giving what they have the best supply of or what they are using as a trial or what was the cheapest. Do the research and request the kind you WANT....it is safer all around! (don't use combo shots...in my opinion)
3) If you don't mind an extra trip to the doctor's office between well child checks...space your child's vaccinations out so they are only receiving ONE aluminum containing shot at a time and limiting the number of shots and amount of chemicals being put into the immune system at one time.
Learn as much as you can, be confident in your decisions and remember that any doctor that isn't willing to hear your concerns, discuss them and work out alternative options that satisfy you and protect your children...well you need a new doctor. Dr. Sears website, www.thevaccinebook.com has a neat link that shows vaccine friendly docs for each state that he knows about. www.cogforlife.org also lists updated vaccine info on its site to keep people aware of changes taking place. This has been a long and big decision process for us....but we have learned so much and feel so much more in control about the healthy decisions being made, scares me when I think of how I was at first with Angelica and just took the docs orders and recommendations and trusted that they knew best! I am still looking and hoping that Parenting Instruction Book falls into my lap and gives me all the answers!
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Tidbits
Ok Ok....I will try to respond to those that have emailed with questions, but here is at least a list of books I have been reading about vaccinations and the diseases. The one that I LOVE that truly gives the information without EVER choosing a pro or con side, is Vaccinations: A thoughtful Parent's Guide, by Aviva Jill Romm. Also How to Raise a Healthy Child...in Spite of your doctor, by Robert S. Mendelsohn, MD. Vaccines, Are they really safe & effective? by Neil Miller. A Shot in the Dark, by Coulter and Fisher. Two GREAT websites with a lot of information and research are: National Vaccine Information Center (on the left side they list every disease with information on it and the vaccines etc) and Children of God for Life (an awesome site with Catholic direction, especially like the section if you click on the left on Moral and Historical Perspectives and then click on Moral Obligations...good information and food for thought!)
Some of the things we have used in our decision:
-you cannot know the effectiveness of each vaccine on each child for immunity unless you get a blood test drawn
-some of these diseases like chickenpox are better to contract naturally as a child to build lifelong immunity to it (vaccinations do not give you this) (would probably give them this shot when they are older if they do not contract it naturally because as an adult it it more serious....although with the vaccinations not a lot of kids are getting it anymore...which is leading to serious issues of adults getting cases of shingles...that is another topic!)
-too many shots at one time increase the risks of reactions and then also make it hard to tell which reaction is being caused by which vaccine
-babies immune systems need time to develop and breastfeeding passes along immunities already
-the chickenpox and MMR vaccines contain aborted fetal cell lines
-why would my babies need HEP B, especially at birth?? I am sure that for awhile they will not be having sex, exchanging needles etc. not necessary!
-so many of instances of these diseases that occur happen to just as many VACCINATED children as unvaccinated
-the research of links of the DPT vaccine and SIDS is REALLY interesting
-so many of these diseases if contracted are VERY treatable and then give you lifelong immunity to them.
Dr. Sears, while a proponent of vaccines, as issued a booklet that also now gives an alternative schedule for vaccinations so children do not get them as early or as many at one time....very interesting and makes sense to me!!
If you are wanting to do more research...what I did and found very helpful for my husband and I to discuss and make decisions (still deciding on some) is take each vaccine/disease and have a sheet of paper (or for me almost a notebook) for each one. List all the pros, cons, info, questions etc....makes it a lot easier to decide when each one is looked at and treated individually. Unfortunately with a lot of medical physicians unwilling to discuss these concerns with you and truthfully not educated on the specifics, it comes down to the parents needing to do the research and equip ourselves with the information to make the best decisions for our children. Good luck!!
Some of the things we have used in our decision:
-you cannot know the effectiveness of each vaccine on each child for immunity unless you get a blood test drawn
-some of these diseases like chickenpox are better to contract naturally as a child to build lifelong immunity to it (vaccinations do not give you this) (would probably give them this shot when they are older if they do not contract it naturally because as an adult it it more serious....although with the vaccinations not a lot of kids are getting it anymore...which is leading to serious issues of adults getting cases of shingles...that is another topic!)
-too many shots at one time increase the risks of reactions and then also make it hard to tell which reaction is being caused by which vaccine
-babies immune systems need time to develop and breastfeeding passes along immunities already
-the chickenpox and MMR vaccines contain aborted fetal cell lines
-why would my babies need HEP B, especially at birth?? I am sure that for awhile they will not be having sex, exchanging needles etc. not necessary!
-so many of instances of these diseases that occur happen to just as many VACCINATED children as unvaccinated
-the research of links of the DPT vaccine and SIDS is REALLY interesting
-so many of these diseases if contracted are VERY treatable and then give you lifelong immunity to them.
Dr. Sears, while a proponent of vaccines, as issued a booklet that also now gives an alternative schedule for vaccinations so children do not get them as early or as many at one time....very interesting and makes sense to me!!
If you are wanting to do more research...what I did and found very helpful for my husband and I to discuss and make decisions (still deciding on some) is take each vaccine/disease and have a sheet of paper (or for me almost a notebook) for each one. List all the pros, cons, info, questions etc....makes it a lot easier to decide when each one is looked at and treated individually. Unfortunately with a lot of medical physicians unwilling to discuss these concerns with you and truthfully not educated on the specifics, it comes down to the parents needing to do the research and equip ourselves with the information to make the best decisions for our children. Good luck!!
Hot Topic
I have been debating whether or not to post anything on this hot topic lately, but I think it is one that should be discussed and decided on for each family. We have been doing LOTS of research and reading on this issue, vaccinations. I will post a list of books I have read later, but came across this chart and flyer and thought it was amazing to see truly how many shots our little ones have been given at certain times...we did all the regular immunizations with Angelica and had a couple adverse reactions. With Emma, we started at birth and her two month appointment but then due to some reaction and truly starting to research in depth what we had been debating for awhile, we stopped all with her. We have decided not to ever vaccinate before 6 months of age (as long as I am breastfeeding) and possibly up to one year. Then at that point we will still be very selective in which ones we do and when we do them. We have run into some very negative responses (to be expected) but feel very confident in the research and information we are gathering. There are LOTS of reasons why we have made this decision but I won't bore you with all of them here...but will recommend reading up on the issues and each individual disease and vaccine and making the best decision for you and your little ones that you can all feel comfortable with. This decision along with all the others is what makes parenting so much fun, right??
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