 Hi ~
 I have double-posted this in "Selective and Delayed Vaxing" as well, as we are still deciding which side of the fence we sit on with this issue. I have a 10-month-old daughter. In a nutshell, we'd really rather not get her vaxed at all as we feel that immunizations aren't the safest thing to pump into a little person's bloodstream... but then we've also talked about only getting singles of what we can and doing a delayed schedule... and we're considering tetanus since we live in a rural area rife with rusty nails in old barns... but then we go back to the first part of not wanting her system exposed to the stuff... but as of now she's not vaxed at all.
 Part of our decision not to immunize her (yet?) was based on the fact that we had no plans to put her in child care (I'm at home with her). WELL, I'm going to be starting work in a child care program for infants and toddlers up to 18 months of age, and I can bring my baby with me. While this is a great arrangement in many ways, I'm now wondering how her risk factors change. As far as I know, all the other kiddos are fully vaxed on the CDC schedule, but I also know that sometimes the disease strains that go through a population hit the vaxed as well... so I'm not sure how much it matters that she'd be with a bunch of vaxed kids.
 Anybody have websites, facts, experiences they can share to help me suss this out? (While books are undoubtedly helpful, unless they're at the library, I can't shell out the dough to pick them up right now.) I'll be talking to her naturopath/pediatrician too, but I wanted to also pluck the strands of this wise web here. Basically I'm wondering how her risk factors change by sharing slobber with her peers.
 Thanks so much,
 Andra
