I really am against the current trend of over vaccinating our children. It scares the bejesus out of me each time I go to get Little S vaccinated. Seb is on the opposite side of the political fence about this though and I respect his feelings so we agree to disagree and we get all the necessary vaccines. Yesterday Little S had to get a second in the series for ROR and he was cranky all day afterwards. Last night he woke up screaming and I couldn't calm him. He raged and lashed out at me. I realized he was partially asleep and took him down into the bed with me to try and calm him. He eventually fell asleep in my arms after a good half hour of what seemed like to me were muscle spasms or something weird. I remembered he'd done the same thing a few months back and I'd attributed it to fussy toddler syndrome, but now I remember that it was the vaccine that time too. It was the same vaccine in fact, the first in the series.
Ugh I hate these vaccines. I know they have prevented diseases and epidemics and are protecting our children from a frightful mortality rate, but still I feel like some serious research needs to be conducted into how to make them safer and into which vaccines can now be stopped due to the fact that they are no longer necessary.
Here are some links you might want to read about the danger of some vaccines.
I'll leave you with a little laugh. The best way to entertain your children is to invent characters and play with them. My mother always did this with me and I do it now too, kind of automatically, so it must be in the genes! little S loves it, almost too much. He drives me crazy constantly trying to get me to do them. He acts them out too trying to pretend he's The Hat Lady or Mr. Dines the Truck Salesmen. Yes I know I'm weird but he's happy and laughing a lot. I love hearing him laugh.
Here for your viewing pleasure is a peek at the toe snack lady!
8 comments:
LOL at Toe Snack, he loves that!
I hate vaccines too, especially the Hep B ones, I will not let them do that to my baby, its super dangerous. I had them as an adult and I was paralysed for a week. I thought that I had contracted MS (same sypmtoms) turns out that you can get MS from Hep B shots. Scary stuff folks.
yeah vaccines scare me too and I'm thinking about it more and more as kids come into the picture (Eventually). I think Europe does less than the US and Canada.
You scared me with the Toe Snack Lady, I thought you were sending me off to watch some lady biting her toenails or something weird like that. But no, just you and your cute son having some loving fun.
We did most of the vaccines, except for the hepatitis one. The ROR was the worst supported one of the bunch. I wish I could have skipped the BCG, but as my girls were in daycare, it was obligatory.
I agree that vaccines are necessary, to a point. It seems like they have a vaccine for everything nowadays. And it's true that most patients aren't fully informed about the vaccines, what they prevent, and possible side effects.
Re: Toe Snack Lady - The laugher and smiles on your little boy's face is priceless! =o)
Lol Merideth.
I'm glad to see some others here are against them. I feel like everytime I mention how much it bothers me I get the "but you'll be harming your child !" rebuttle. No one here seems to know very much about the dangers of them.
im not super excited about vaccines, of course for each individual person (or kid) it is wayyy safter not to get a vaccine, but then if everyone did that it would be much more dangerous than the vaccines that we get.
i agree that some seem uncessesary (like chicken pox for example), but it bugs me to no end when parents decide just to not give their kids vaccines for super dangerous diseases and they are still basically safe because everyone elses kids gets them. it just seems unfair.
Sara I've pondered that issue too and it does seem unfair. That's my husband's whole argument for vaccines, the unfairness issue. On the flip side is my argument. Statistical data for vaccines is often presented with a disclaimer saying something along the lines of "only one kid in say 10,000 will have adverse side effects from vaccine X" However if that one kid in 10,000 is YOUR child then the risk seems quite frightning doesn't it. To me it's a giant roulette wheel and it's not adults but very young children in the middle of it. I really wish they'd make them safer and eliminate the useless ones.
yeah, i understand that the risk is of course quite scary! i sometimes (morbidly) am consoled by remembering the scary sounding odds of things we do all the time, for example even just each year the odds of dying in a motor vehicle accident are something like 1 in 6,500. life really is a giant roulette wheel!
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