I agree with your statement regarding how disease is spread.

Which is why me as a mother to my children, vaccinates, because that's how I protect my child from the careless of others. Both me and OH are fully boosted, but I couldn't be certain about the other adults all my children come in contact with. That's my personal choice tho, and I respect others may be different

Considering that all vaccinations are made the same (as in the xyz at two months, will be the same given if you delay it for however long) what are the benefits in delaying it? I understand that their immunity would be getter better through age, but what happens of one of your kids get the "preventable by vaccination" disease whilst your delaying, isn't your risk in doing this the same risk I can of having my child vaccinate.

I really want to point out here, I am generally curious and don't want to start an arguement. It's interesting to find out different things, and gives me a better informed choice.


Love MN ;-)
What Keike said, lol.
Basically yeah, it is not the vaccine that is different, it is the baby. I think 2mo is too young. Japan developed DTaP and they don't start DTaP innoculations until 6mo.

and they still have less Whooping cough than us!

For me, I'm very uncomfortable with giving a baby the same vaccine dosage as an adult, or even a toddler. I view it the same way as not giving a newborn a steak dinner - their bodies just aren't ready for it yet. That's what bothers me, is that their tiny little bodies are voluntarily bombarded with all this stuff, and theyr'e just not prepared for it. That's why I'd be okay with delaying and separating vaccinations if I was to give them at all
Perfectly yes.

I actually don't know why some medicines aren't given to younger babies but the enzyme system that Yeddi loves so much is not an essential part of the immune system. A lot is know about the immune systems of newborns and the reaction of a newborns immune system is easy to measure by a blood test.

There has been a lot of research on how readily babies immune systems react to vaccines, even about how much vaccine is needed to make them immune.


Here is a good example:
Seroconversion following killed polio vaccine in n... [Indian J Pediatr. 1997 Jul-Aug] - PubMed result
That doesn't say anywhere that the entire process was completely beneficial with no adverse side effects. In fact, they ONLY thing they checked is the babies immunity. Not what we are arguing here.

Talking of paranoia and apocalyptic style theories, you're the one suggesting that the world is going to turn into a pit of disease and calamity without vaccinations (how did the human race survive for the thousands of years without them), and talking about the unvaccinated as the great unwashed. Bigotry doesn't help anyone either.
I think it was I that sarcastically called us 'the great unwashed', but I will admit that I am also getting that 'vibe', iykwim.


For example, Rockin has yet to admit that the potentially 12 million unvaccinated adult Australians are the more likely cause of our whooping cough epidemic as opposed to the 300k unvaccinated under 17yos from Non-vaxxers.


ETA: Apparently I missed a whole page.. maybe too.. yikes.