proof is in the pudding

The third, or possibly fourth, reason I have chosen not to vaccinate is a really important one (they all are!).

It involves the stories of Mothers and Fathers who saw almost instant changes in their child after vaccinating. I’ve spoken to these parents. I’ve seen their children.

Some of those involved ‘minor’ side-effects such as rashes, screaming, loss of appetite, unsettled for weeks, vomiting and the usual redness and soreness.

Then there are ones that are more serious – developing diabetic-type symptoms, the baby going totally floppy within hours of receiving their vaccination, the ‘autism-like’ trance, seizures and even one baby dying within days of receiving their 2 month shots. The more I get involved with the anti-vaccination movement the more stories I hear. This is qualitative data that’s never collected.

These situations can’t just be explained away as coincidental. And more often than not, they are brushed aside by their GPs and told that there couldn’t possibly be link (by Drs who possibly don’t want to fill in the paper work either). It’s these stories that are not recorded on the national database. Sure, there are lots of people who haven’t experienced any side-effects (or don’t know what they look like). But there are lots that have. Doctors brush them aside and their voices never get heard.

Please let me know if you have felt your baby  wasn’t the same after being vaccinated or if you experienced a severe side-effect.

over the teeth and past the tongue, look out stomach here it comes!

Another instinctual reason I decided against vaccinating had to do with the body’s natural defense system. Our ‘outer’ defence systems include the mouth (digestive system), the nose and lungs, the eye, skin and ears. Injecting something directly into the body bypasses all these.

What chance to you give your baby’s tiny body fight off the virus naturally if you inject it directly into the body?

I also wondered what the vaccination ingredients were doing to the blood and body once they were in there. I don’t think you I felt there was something deeper happening – something at a cellular level to negatively change the natural course of disease.

It does get me thinking about the oral polio vaccination and whether there was more sense in that…

old vs new

It is a really interesting to consider the number of vaccinations given now compared to around 25 years ago, about the time I was a baby. According to the CDC in 1983 babies were given 10 vaccinations. In 2007 they have 36. 36! Geez, we must be spreading viruses like there is no tomorrow! That’s a 360% increase! When I tell other parent’s I haven’t vaccinated their first response is usually “I was vaccinated and I’m fine!” (which usually isn’t entirely true, but that’s another story). I point out to them that the number they received is quite low compared to today’s bub. Plus things have changed – ingredients have changed along with the age at which we start receiving them (i.e. newborns).

This information is for the US but I bet the Australian schedule isn’t that far off this.

comparison Click here to see the chart for yourself

I’d like to get an idea of who is reading this and what they have chosen for their child so please drop a dot on my poll!

too chicken for chicken pox?

I was just reading an article/blog titled ‘Should you have your child vaccinated for chicken pox?’.
According to the article “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have gotten behind the varicella vaccine.”

Why are we vaccinating against things that aren’t even that harmful!? As a child, I was sent to chicken pox parties where a mum would have all the kids over if her child had contracted chicken pox! I never actually got it but loved hanging out and eating party food with the spot-ridden host! This definitely doesn’t make sense to me.

It’s interesting to note that in a CBS report I watched on Youtube, the American Academy of Pediatrics is collecting ‘donations’ from Pharmaceutical companies.

Pharmaceutical companies donated over a US$1million for conferences, grants, medical education and even helped build the new AAP headquarters. Merck (the maker of the chicken pox vaccine) kindly donated $433,000 (the same year the academy promoted the new HPV vaccine) to the Academy! That’s so generous of them, hey!
Its also mentions that Wyeth donated $342, 000 (makes the new mercoccal vaccine) and Sanofi Aventis donated an undisclosed amount (they make 17 different vaccines plus a five-in-one shot just added to the US schedule).

Now, I can’t say that I’ve researched these donations myself but this is an example of how a few pennies can sway an opinion or get something pushed through faster. Just food for thought….

my story so far…

Let’s get straight to the point….I didn’t vaccinate my child. It’s such a hotly debated issue so no doubt some of you are cheering and others are already moaning about how irresponsible I am. Well, this blog will allow me to share my story. I’ll include why I decided not too, how I came to my conclusion, stories from other parents and any news or information I come across day-to-day.

For those of you who are pro-vaccination I invite you to read this blog with consideration and thought. The mind is like an umbrella – it doesn’t work unless it’s open…

I’ll attempt to show a different side to this argument, expose why vaccination is so widely accepted and most importantly, the politics and economics of research and news. I’m new to this writing thing so please forgive me if I don’t display amazing literary genius. I’m going to try not to tout figures and statistics – you really can’t trust any of them anyway. Who knows where they came from!

I’ve always believed in looking at the motivations of people, companies and the world in general. Why do things develop the way they do? What makes people act certain ways when presented with different choices?

Money is a powerful force in this world. All through history humans have acted cruelly and without thought due to the power of the dollar. ‘Money talks’ as the saying goes. Even in normal corporate jobs I see people turn their backs on things because of their bonus at the end of the year.

The picture here is of my son in hospital at one day old. Such a precious little human being, huh? I never though I’d feel so protective of anything until I gave birth. But months before I had him I knew that I wasn’t going to vaccinate him. It just didn’t feel right. I know many of you will say ‘You can’t base your decision on a feeling!‘. Well, in my mind I could. Mother’s intuition is the strongest intuition you can have. It’s about the survival of humanity. Without it we’d possibly not even exist. Mother’s intuition is what steps in when your bub is about to open a pool gate, reach out to touch a hot stove or when you can hear your baby cry even though they are totally out of earshot. It’s what kept you and me alive! So that’s my first not-so-scientific reason of why I didn’t jab my baby 10 minutes after he arrived in this world!

He is now 9 months old. He has mixed with plenty of other children (both vaccinated and unvaccinated), we have travelled overseas and he has even been exposed to a child with a ‘deadly childhood disease’. And he is fine. Better than fine, in fact. He has never had an infection, never been sick, eats like a trooper, no allergies or skin disorders, is crawling, climbing, talks (baby language of course) and I’m teaching him sign language too. Lots of vaccinated children are the same. The point I’m making is just because you decide not to vaccinate doesn’t mean your baby will be the sickly one that carries germs and is always in hospital. In my experience, it’s usually the opposite.