specifically the swine flu vax.
my dad just asked me last night if i was getting my kids vaccinated with swine flu vax. i said no. he said "tina, you're talking about their lives!" in a very concerned voice. he really unnerved me because i didn't have a response, i just told him i don't believe that and that the vax is hyped too much and too new, too dangerous in my mind.
but i think he thinks i'm a bad parent for it. he does know that we don't vax at all since our second child. he seems to understand some because he was there when we had a vaccination presentation at his church awhile back that talked about how scary vax's are in general. i don't know that he agrees fully but he understands my fears more, as does my dh, who, after that presentation (powerpoint by a local chiropractor and his wife) stopped bugging me about vax's and got scared too.
i go back and forth on vax's still...but my 4yr old has still not had a single one, and my nearly 9yr old daughter is only partially vaccinated. i selectively vax'd her back when she was little, and stopped later on when i learned more.
but my concern right now is how to deal with questions like this that my father brought up. i don't even want to get into a conversation w/inlaws who already think i'm a freak for all the AP'n, cloth diaper'n (back when i had ones in diapers), extended breastfeed'n, homebirth'n, homeschool'n freakish stuff, by their minds. ugh.
so seriously...how do you respond when a family member asks about why your not going to vax your kids for swine flu? or any flu, for that matter?
my dad just asked me last night if i was getting my kids vaccinated with swine flu vax. i said no. he said "tina, you're talking about their lives!" in a very concerned voice. he really unnerved me because i didn't have a response, i just told him i don't believe that and that the vax is hyped too much and too new, too dangerous in my mind.
but i think he thinks i'm a bad parent for it. he does know that we don't vax at all since our second child. he seems to understand some because he was there when we had a vaccination presentation at his church awhile back that talked about how scary vax's are in general. i don't know that he agrees fully but he understands my fears more, as does my dh, who, after that presentation (powerpoint by a local chiropractor and his wife) stopped bugging me about vax's and got scared too.
i go back and forth on vax's still...but my 4yr old has still not had a single one, and my nearly 9yr old daughter is only partially vaccinated. i selectively vax'd her back when she was little, and stopped later on when i learned more.
but my concern right now is how to deal with questions like this that my father brought up. i don't even want to get into a conversation w/inlaws who already think i'm a freak for all the AP'n, cloth diaper'n (back when i had ones in diapers), extended breastfeed'n, homebirth'n, homeschool'n freakish stuff, by their minds. ugh.
so seriously...how do you respond when a family member asks about why your not going to vax your kids for swine flu? or any flu, for that matter?
