Vaccination Resources that helped you make a decision...

[Sterla]

Okay... I really don't want this turning into anything ugly, so play nice everyone!

I am after some resources, book suggestions, etc about vaccinations - as unbiased as possible. Especially if they were useful in helping you make a decision about vaccinating. Everything I've read so far (for both sides) seems to be so pushy - I just want the facts as clearly as I can get them. My decision so far for DD has been to delay, but she's now getting to the age where I need to start making some decisions about what I want her to have and when I want her to have them.

TIA

[BellyBelly]

'The Vaccine Book' is supposed to be very balanced, but I haven't read enough to give a review - but I hear this from lots of sources.

[HotI]

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[JaCaMaDy]

I read The Vaccine Book by Dr Sears, it helped with my decision to go with a partial, delayed vaccination schedule.

[lisaandshaun]

Google Isaac golden. Great books!

[Cassius2]

Absolutely LOVE the 'vaccine book' by Dr Sears. it is so fantastic and really informative and doesnt necessarily lean either way in the 'vax debate' per say (in that he agrees that vaccination can and does have a place but also advocates for informed consent and decision making (whether you follow the schedule or not).

It has been so so wonderful for our family to read: it covers so much from how the vaccines are made, to what are the side-effects and how common/rare. he even discusses the ethical issues that might be present (ie the use of human and animal tissue - ie the breeding of cow fetuses to create the live components of the MMR vaccine for example and so on). But seriously I feel that it is done without judgement. it is just information and as a medical professional he offers some opinion: ie. if a family has a history of specific illness/ailments (like asthma or such what) and what vaccines are then not medically recommended. he also goes into detail for people that might have compromised immunes through medication and how and when that it might be deemed not safe to vaccinate.

really quite thorough but done in a straightforward and quite easy read.