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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
To Vaccinate Or Not
We took baby for her 4 month check up today. Everything is going great! We go to one of the few "holistic" pediatricians in our area, but she was still pushing some of the vaccines. I've read articles and seen videos about the issue, but it's still very confusing. My gut feeling is not to give any vaccines, but to boost her immunity in other ways, maybe with homeopathic nosodes. Many of my friends are not giving any vaccines, including my midwife who I spoke with today. She has three kids; the first one had the regular schedule of vaccines and did fine, the next one had bad allergic reactions to three doses and then had no more and the third wasn't given any vaccines and was fine (he's now a teenager). During a recent pertussis outbreak, two children in her family who were fully vaccinated contracted it and apparently all of the other children in that outbreak were also vaccinated. I need to do more research and I'll report what I decide.
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