why did you choose not to go ahead with vaccination/immunisation

[scarlet121]

This is goign to sound like I am anti vaccine, which I am not. But I have two children that took to the vaccines differently. My first child, was your typical vaccination dream I suppose, he took them all on schedule and not even a wink of sleep lost.

My second a different story. Parker has a lot of health issues and I truly beleive that most were caused due to vaccinations. He has a type of low immunity, which may be the reason that these things always go wrong.

Unfortunately for me we didn't work this out until last year and he had all but his 4 year old MMR immunisations. Since this was his last one, going to school next year, we got it done 4 weeks. Since then he has had 4 different types of rashes, was treated precautionally for meningecoccal and now being tested for allergies. He has been grumpy and agro, but in the scheme of things is starting to get a bit better now.

I wish I had followed my gut and waited or not got it done yet. But it was the last one, i thought it would be easier to get it done with.

If we have another child I do think I will get him/her immunised, but probably use homeopathics until they are older then do one at a time, slowly and see how it goes.

there is a lot of reasearch to suggest that in some kids, they just don't have enough immunity yet when they are first born and takes time to build up, dosing them at birth with vaccinations on these kids, makes other problems.

[lmbmcb]

Hi
I had my first two immunisied on the exact days they were due, I also had them immunised for the 'extras' that weren't on the schedule as I thought I was being a good mum and protecting my children from harmful diseases.
Years later we have found out that the immunisations have caused all sorts of issues. My oldest has damage to her bowel linging caused by the additives in the vaccines, she has malabsorbsion issues, food intollerences and OCD. My youngest has severe life threatening allergies and is extremely chemically sensitive. My next bub will NOT be getting any immunisatoins, not even VitK.
There is alot of research being done on this issue, especially in the States. If you google 'Mary Megson DTP vaccine' you will get some interesting research info on the effects of the DTP vaccine and what damage it causes to genetically susceptible children.
The problem is the governments keep saying nothing is conclusive, it's very difficult to get the establishment to admit they may have been wrong about immunisation so follow your instincts as a mother. We will be using homeopathic immunisation which as been proven to have great success.You could google 'homeopathic meningococol vaccine in Brazil' to see some interesting statistics.

From someone who used to be very pro immunisation
L.B.

[halltribe]

Vaccinations - touchy subject!

When I was a young mum I was never aware that I had a choice in vaccinating my child. My first was fully vaccinated till he was 5, after that I got wise. I do not vaccinate any of my children or the family dog!

My oldest fully vaccinated boy got wooping cough so bad it blew the retinas in his eyes, my girls (non immunised) also got whooping cough but not as bad but the doctor tried to tell me it was because they weren't immunized! BULL#@*&!

[Nelle]

My answer to whether I vaccinate is 'not yet'. And it may be never. I think I might think more seriously about some perhaps when the kids are 4 maybe...dunno.

Also thinking about homeopathic vaccination too.

For us, Riv was a snuffly baby, and I figured his immune system was already busy enough, without inflicting an unnecessary assault on it. But I'll never say never, I do see the positives in vaccination, but there is so much we don't know about our vaccines, and I'm not going to vaccinate til my kids are older and bigger, and able to cope better with vaccination.

The BB article's definitely a good start. All the best, it is difficult to find balanced information, although the AVN's not too bad. A lot of info out there either seems to be propaganda or scare-tactics.