Delayed Vaccination Schedules Are Just Asking for Trouble

Personally, I went by the normal standard for my daughter. However, currently I am pregnant, and plan on doing a delayed schedule. My husband and his first cousin, and his sister all had reactions to the shots, so I want to be sure of which will cause a reaction if one is to happen.

So, medical degree or not... doctors are still practicing medicine. Are they right every time? No. Do they know all of the things that the FDA regulates or has to tell them? No. I also am a healthcare professional and I have worked in the ER for 10+ years. I do not agree to all the vaccines. YES, some vaccines have really kept from outbreaks of certain things but what was so very wrong with gettting Chickenpox, etc? I think being in Healthcare has made me very leery of trusting EVERYTHING someone has to say.

I think it is irresponsible to approach medicine as one size fits all. I am also a medical professional and I have seen that whenever you try to make everyone fit the same mold the negatives of an intervention start to surpass the positive. Furthermore there is zero liability with regard to these shots...and a lot of money backing them. In my mind that is a recipe for disaster. That fact alone was enough for me to take a step back and question whether this intervention was the best choice for my son despite my formal training. 

Beyond that point the concern I have is with not using a true placebo (saline) during safety trials, screening patients before trials and only accepting the healthiest of the healthy but administering the shots to everyone (premature, recent illness, etc), and passive surveillance after the vaccine is introduced to the public.  They are not looking for adverse reactions nor are the medical professionals trained on the signs and symptoms.  We are literally taught in school and during clinicals/residency that the last culprit when there is a problem is the vaccination.  The system is not set up for the safety of the individual.

I have to wonder if the "crunchy" ones listen to their doctor at all. My doctor describes each disease that the vaccination is being used to prevent and goes over the possible side effects at every single appointment. It doesn't matter if my child has had the vaccination before or I've had multiple children who have had it she goes through the schtick every time. And I know people think doctors are bullying and there's fear-mongering going on, but maybe there should be. They have seen what these diseases do to children and families and they want to prevent that from happening. Why listen to some random person on the internet who doesn't know your child or your medical history over your doctor who has all of that information? There are medical reasons children might need to be on a delayed schedule or avoid vaccinations, but that's not every child. And because of these delayed vaccinations or just not getting them at all we are seeing the recurrence of diseases we haven't seen in years. Doesn't that concern anyone? Why exactly do they think that's happening? Is the government doing it in someway? Maybe we should listen more to the trained professionals and less to the Google university graduates!

I think everyone should do what they are comfortable with because it is a big decision. I don't vaccinate at all but I couldn't go to a doctor that wasn't willing to look at my particular child's risk/benefit. One size fits all medicine just doesn't make sense. I also wouldn't be too swayed by the degree on the wall. Modern doctors only treat a slice of the "healthy human" pie - the treatment of disease through pharmaceuticals. When that is what you need then they are invaluable but I don't go to my MD for nutritional, emotional, or spiritual advice (nor parenting advice).

My doctor has a degree on his wall too. He delayed vaccinations for his own children and opted out of others. He encourages his patients to make informed decisions and supports what they decide. A doctor who insists on anything is not a good one.

Maybe you should not just listen to a "medical degree on the wall" and research the ingredients, study after study done in all countries, the side effects listed by the manufacture, how some have been fast tracted through the trial phase, look on VEARS and see all the vaccine injuries, research how the body does not develope the ability to "build immunity" till around age two, see how in other countries heard immunity is shown to not be true, see the vaccines have never in US history been shown to reduce any desease,.....do I need to continue???? You should not write about something without doing reasearch and just speak second hand from a "degree on a wall". You dont need a medical degree to have a "common sense,proactive mom degree". If there was a war and you needed to keep your chld safe would you need the "medical degree on the wall" or would you let your common sense and motherly inyuition keep your child safe???? Oh and listening to Crunchy moms is not researching yourself! You will learn some things but you should know it for yourself!

I believe that vaccinating children is necessary to a healthy society. The claims that autism is caused by vaccinations are unfounded. However, I don't think that every vaccination that is available is necessary. I have opted not to vaccinate my children with the varivax (chicken pox) shot until absolutely necessary, nor the Hep B shot since they are not around people who are high risk for this. I had both of my kids on an abbreviated schedule that required me to take them in every month instead of every two months to break out the vaccines. There isn't any harm in doing this and I think it is easier on the child. Unvaccinated children can pose a threat to elderly people whose immunities are no longer strong, and those people often become carriers of diseases that have been thought to be erradicated. I believe that is where people get so upset with those moms who do not vaccinate their kids. I choose to vaccinate, however, I would never rip apart a parent who doesn't. Ultimately, we as parents are responsible for looking after the health of our own children.

An MD is a practicing license they are totally ill-equipped to handle areas of gray. They really just take orders from their parent organization (AAP). Vaccines are not safe for everyone and the idea that some of us should sacrifice our children so others wont get communicable diseases is insane. Not my kids. My kids have not and will not be vaccinated. No parent who reads the actual studies and assesses for methodology and for risk rates would vaccinate. None. Its just most dont have 80 hours a week to spend on this issue like I did.