TO VACCINATE OR NOT

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Registered: 01-01-2008
TO VACCINATE OR NOT
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Fri, 02-22-2008 - 11:23pm
HELLO. I HAVE OPTED TO PUT A HOLD ON THE IMMUNIZATIONS FOR OUR INFANT SINCE THE AUTISM DIAGNOSIS OF HIS OLDER BROTHER.

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Registered: 11-28-2006
Sun, 02-24-2008 - 3:56am

Wow, Wow, Wow Amy.

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Registered: 08-10-2006
Mon, 02-25-2008 - 9:08am

Hi!


Here is a link that lists vaccine ingredients.

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Christine

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Registered: 01-13-2008
Mon, 02-25-2008 - 10:04am

This is MY opinion only , but i would vaccinate.. We have yet to recieve an official on the spectrum diagnoses but im pretty sure she is, and im also pretty sure shes always been that way.. no vaccine at around 18 months changed her! shes been "different" from the get go.


I would love to say dont vaccinate so that we have the oppertunity to completly rule that out, but the chances of other possible diseases happening are then at a higher risk!


my other opinion is to always trust your mommy gut, u could listen to us all day and night but at the end of the day u have to do what u feel most comfortable doing!!


best of luck :)

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Registered: 01-07-2008
Tue, 02-26-2008 - 6:47am

I would say, whatever you decide, please make an *informed* decision and make it in the best interests of your family.


My own personal take on this (as I am a social policy professor I overresearched everything, and I mean overresearch, including tracking down the original Wakefield studies linking autism and mmr) is that there is, as yet, no proven link between *anything* environmental and autism, but there sure as hell is a proven link between many of the diseases we vaccinate against and death, brain damage and other lasting, significant physical impairments. I've worked with special needs kids who had brain damage following measles and were born brain damaged when their mothers contracted rubella, I've worked with older people who spent time in iron lungs due to polio, I've seen babies die from dysentry and diptheria when I was volunteering in refugee camps, I've seen toddlers with seizures when they've contracted a preventable virus from an unvaccinated classmate...


And I've read all the scary bio-medical-chemical stuff too. and, personally, it's the brain damaged babies that haunt me. I may be completely wrong on this, in fifty years time they'll conclusively prove the link and maybe I'll wish we never gave DS1 the MMR. But, actually, DS1, bless his heart, is a fabulous boy and even if I could prove to him that a vaccination had caused his Asperger's he would probably opt to stay with the Asperger's.

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