Ah, researching vaccines . . . one of the most proven ways to give myself a headache. Basically my situation is that I gave birth back in California where I took it for granted that finding a nonvaxing friendly pedi wasn't TOO much of a hassle. Now our family is stationed over in South Korea where there is only 1 pediatrician! I have researched vaccines long ago but since all the information made me flip flop between no vaccines to delaying to selective to none etc. I decided to give it a rest and delay until my daughter is at least 2.
Well, I wanted to take my daughter to a check up because I wanted to get to know the doctor better. When the topic came to vaccines, I claimed we didn't for religious reasons. Other doctors I've seen just went, "Okay," so when the doctor asked what religion I was I went something like, "We're Catholic. There are aborted fetuses, uh, CDC, er, books I've read . . . no, I don't believe the autism link . . . okay, we might delay until 2, immunity wears down, yeah. . ." So he gave me a bunch of links to look at and I've been researching a little more because we have another appointment today.
From many sources, I read that these vaccine preventable diseases aren't as bad as many statistics write up, if you redo the math and take into consideration how many of the cases were otherwise healthy. Then I looked at a couple of websites my pedi gave me and they made me scared.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/6mishome.htm
Risk from Disease vs. Risk from Vaccinations have really extreme statistics especially for DTaP. I don't get it. Where do all these different numbers come from and how do you get a "correct" statistic? Take the average from studies done by the vaccine companies and from anti-vaccine sources? Haha.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pro...oning-vacc.htm
Oh, the link to the page sounds so welcoming already.
"Excluding patients from your practice whose parents decline immunizations is not deemed the best public health strategy. Remember, unimmunized young children did not decide for themselves to forgo vaccination. If you don’t care for them, who will?"
Oh doctor, save my daughter from myself.
What should I do? I want to keep WBVs because I don't want it to look like I'm neglecting my child but I can't shop around for another doctor here. I was thinking of printing out the modified AAP refusal to vaccine form before he whipped out the unmodified version.
Gah, I should have just went, "I don't wish to discuss my religious beliefs with you," and nipped it in the bud! But then wonderful dh also said, "Is that the recommended vaccine schedule?" We have it at home, in at least 3 of our books! Way to make it look like we don't even know what vaccines are.
Well, I wanted to take my daughter to a check up because I wanted to get to know the doctor better. When the topic came to vaccines, I claimed we didn't for religious reasons. Other doctors I've seen just went, "Okay," so when the doctor asked what religion I was I went something like, "We're Catholic. There are aborted fetuses, uh, CDC, er, books I've read . . . no, I don't believe the autism link . . . okay, we might delay until 2, immunity wears down, yeah. . ." So he gave me a bunch of links to look at and I've been researching a little more because we have another appointment today.
From many sources, I read that these vaccine preventable diseases aren't as bad as many statistics write up, if you redo the math and take into consideration how many of the cases were otherwise healthy. Then I looked at a couple of websites my pedi gave me and they made me scared.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/6mishome.htm
Risk from Disease vs. Risk from Vaccinations have really extreme statistics especially for DTaP. I don't get it. Where do all these different numbers come from and how do you get a "correct" statistic? Take the average from studies done by the vaccine companies and from anti-vaccine sources? Haha.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pro...oning-vacc.htm
Oh, the link to the page sounds so welcoming already.
"Excluding patients from your practice whose parents decline immunizations is not deemed the best public health strategy. Remember, unimmunized young children did not decide for themselves to forgo vaccination. If you don’t care for them, who will?"
Oh doctor, save my daughter from myself.
What should I do? I want to keep WBVs because I don't want it to look like I'm neglecting my child but I can't shop around for another doctor here. I was thinking of printing out the modified AAP refusal to vaccine form before he whipped out the unmodified version.
Gah, I should have just went, "I don't wish to discuss my religious beliefs with you," and nipped it in the bud! But then wonderful dh also said, "Is that the recommended vaccine schedule?" We have it at home, in at least 3 of our books! Way to make it look like we don't even know what vaccines are.
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