Posts by mamakay

Quote: Originally Posted by miriam  I had made the point before that the only time I have heard the herd theory of immunity invoked against me is when the disease scare tactics do not change my mind. I only...

  Quote: Originally Posted by pers  No,  you never said infants were dead from measles.  That was mamakay's point, not yours.  If measles were still going around within our population, more...

Coughing several times a day for months with no other symptom is not a symptom of carrying Hib. I'd guess it's a really, really mild allergy causing mucous, and like your doc said, it dries overnight and she coughs/clears it out in the...

  Quote: Originally Posted by miriam  To mamakay:   This is solely my opinion based on my anecdotal experience.   Reporting a disease is dependent on a doctor properly...

Quote: Originally Posted by JMJ  coffeegirl, I found this thread that seems to address a lot of what I was getting at, including the fact that some of these GD philosophies are not as well represented on MDC as they...

To the "don't believe vaccine induced herd immunity is real" people, why do you think we don't (and haven't for a decade) have endemic measles transmission in the US?

I also never felt like disapproval over something I was doing = love withdrawal/conditional love with my "primary attachment figures", either.    

  Quote: Originally Posted by IdentityCrisisMama  Interesting.  I was kind of wondering the opposite.  I imagined all these CL/TCS parents were coming from the perspective of a parent of...

  Quote: Originally Posted by IdentityCrisisMama  That's crazy because that happened only a month after I joined...and I remember A LOT of TCS talk for several years after I joined.  Anyway,...

Quote: Originally Posted by mamazee  Yes, all he is talking about is the "self esteem movement" of the 70s and 80s where parents and teachers ran a running commentary giving very frequent praise. He isn't talking about...