Why did you choose NOT to vaccinate your child?

[Loveinamist]

Pretty much what Trillian said! Thanks Trillian!

[*TripleJ*]

I have chosen to stop vaccinating my DS and DD my DS is up to date and DD only had up to her 4 month ones
the reason is i have looked into it and has also been found that kids (mostly boys) have a higher incidence of ADD/ADHD and i believe my son has it his dad has it so it might not be that that caused it but i dont want to risk it the second time around with DD i did notice a change in DS after he had the MMR vaccine it was like i had a totally different little boy it was within a week of him getting the vax

[meow]

We currently don't vaccinate, though we have in the past and we may do again in the future.

Initially we did a delayed/partial schedule. We skipped birth Hep B and rotavirus vaccines as our children were not at risk of these (no Hep B in the family and fully breastfed, not in child care). We skipped chicken pox as we felt the vaccine was fairly unreliable and the illness itself not highly risky in our healthy children. So our reasons for not vaccinating were because we felt that not everything on the schedule was needed for every child.

Since our eldest son has been diagnosed with autism we have done further research and decided not to vaccinate either of our children. We are recovering our son from autism using the Gut and Psychology Syndrome protocol and Dr Campbell-McBride's theory is that autistic children have such poor gut flora that they do not detox sufficiently and are suffering from toxic overload. Vaccines add to the toxic overload and are not safe for children with poor gut health. Perhaps a couple of years down the track if we feel our children have healthy guts and can detox the toxins in vaccines then we may consider partial vaccination again for some illnesses.

[Amethyst in the Rough]

I think maybe one option greatly overlooked by the public at large is a Homeopathic Vaccination Schedule (legally not allowed to be called a 'vaccination'), better known as Homeopathic Prophylaxis. This is a series of remedies which are scientifically supported to offer an immune resistance against these diseases and are generally safe.

These remedies work by helping the immune system gradually develop an immune memory and a form of resistance to specific diseases. Nothing is a guarantee, including routine immunizations from our Doctors - testimony to this (for me) is that most of the children who I know who have been diagnosed with these illnesses (such as whooping cough) had already been medically immunized for them.

Schmickers, if you are interested you may want to research Issac Golden, the Japanese Schedule for Vaccinations and the corresponding drop in SIDS, and if you want to go one step further talk to a qualified Homeopath who specialises with children. I did this and feel more informed for doing it.

P.S. Can you send me a link to the article you mention in your post, I would love to read it.