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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t vaccinate my girls for most of the required vaccinations (not including flu or covid, which we don’t vaccinate for either) only a few that we think were/are more necessary.

They’re 5 & 8, perfectly healthy kids. [/quote]

Until they get measles[/quote]

We vaccinate selectively and do include MMR and DTaP.[/quote]

Where’d you get your medical degree?[/quote]

My husband and I are highly educated professionals.. Let parents make their own choices[/quote]

I would make the decision never to have your children anywhere near mine, and I’d tell all the other parents why as well.[/quote]

I’m okay with that.
Like I said before, we believe in parental freedom (including yours) and do all natural parenting.[/quote]

And we are free to shun you and shout to the world why.[/quote]

What disease is everyone worried about?

We do vaccinate against measles.[/quote]

What diseases do you not vaccinate against?  I can’t speak for anyone else, but those are the ones I worry about.

If highly educated MEDICAL professionals have decided that a vaccine is critical enough to the protection of both the public health and that of the individual to mandate it, I am more likely to trust their judgement than yours.  The recommendations are based on complications that we’ve largely forgotten about BECAUSE of the vaccines.

I understand caution.  I tend to be extremely (overly) cautious, myself.  My kids are old enough that thimerasol hadn’t yet been ruled out as a possible cause for autism.  When the schools offered thimerasol-free flu vaccines but the pediatrician’s included the preservative, I had them get the vaccine at school - BUT it wasn’t a required vaccine and they still got the vaccine.  Similarly, my DD had just reached the recommended age (since they want kids to have it before they become sexually active) for the HPV vaccine when it came out.  Knowing my particular daughter was nowhere near being sexually active, and with the vaccine being optional (at least at that time, I don’t know about now), I decided to wait a year in case there were problems that came to light when it was widely administered, but then she got it (and her younger sister got it on the recommended schedule).   I had questions about the Varicella (Chicken Pox) vaccine and had a discussion with the pediatrician before my kids had that vaccine, but the doctor was able to address my concerns and they had their vaccine.

Nothing is completely safe.  Vaccines can have negative health effects, but those side effects are both far less severe and far less common than the possible consequences of having the actual diseases.  If you have questions and concerns, discuss them with your children’s doctor, get a second opinion or even a third, but trust that they know more than you do because they are highly educated and experienced in MEDICINE, and they certainly know more than anyone you’re getting input from on social media (especially me).[/quote]

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