When I was pregnant, I read all the stories about natural childbirth and pain-controlled childbirth. I was afraid of the pain of labor, so anything I read about not controlling the pain just rolled off me like water off a duck's back. When I had my son, it was a textbook induction and managed labor, but after he was born, they took him away from me because they said I had "gestational diabetes." They poked his little heels with needles and gave him formula against my wishes, and I started to get angry. When he got a little older I started reading up on gestational diabetes and mother-baby bonding and I realized that I had been sold a bill of goods, and I swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. The reason I swallowed it was because of my fear, specifically my fear of natural childbirth/labor pain. I allowed my fear to rule my reason and it bit my son in the ass - not me, my son with his poor pincushion heels and not getting breastfed from the get go. This is one of the hardest things to face as a parent. I let my son down from the very beginning! Unfortunately it didn't stop there.
My husband is from a different culture (Iran) and if you think Americans are bad about trusting doctors, my husband is 10 times worse. My son was fully vaxed up to 6 months (starting with the Hep B at 2 weeks). When the doctor told us that he would have to receive the varicella vaccine at his 12 month appointment, I started thinking about the chicken pox and I remembered having it as a kid and it was nothing! From the time he was six months until that 12 month visit, I read everything about the varicella vaccine I could get my hands on, and the extremely poor results really spoke to me, because I was not afraid of the potential outcome. I was able to make decisions confidently because the end result (kid gets chicken pox naturally) was not all that bad.
Human cultures are generally cultures of fear. People who are afraid are easily controlled. The higher-ups know this and use it to their advantage. It is our responsibility to face these fears head on and accept negative outcomes (even death and sever debilitation) for what they are. We cannot control the nature of disease. This is the folly of the whole vaccine idea. We have commuted what the vaccines are for (protection from acute illness) into chronic diseases of the body and mind. It calls conventional wisdom into play when you realize that your priorities are screwed up and that it gets in the way of how you process information. Some people are awarded rude awakenings that change their perspective about certain things.
One canoot make decisions when covered under a blanket of fear. Those who fear will be controlled - that is the nature of the human spirit. I am not perfect, nor am I enlightened but I have to realize that doctors are trying to use the potential death of my child to rob me of my decision making skills. I cannot allow that to happen.
My husband is from a different culture (Iran) and if you think Americans are bad about trusting doctors, my husband is 10 times worse. My son was fully vaxed up to 6 months (starting with the Hep B at 2 weeks). When the doctor told us that he would have to receive the varicella vaccine at his 12 month appointment, I started thinking about the chicken pox and I remembered having it as a kid and it was nothing! From the time he was six months until that 12 month visit, I read everything about the varicella vaccine I could get my hands on, and the extremely poor results really spoke to me, because I was not afraid of the potential outcome. I was able to make decisions confidently because the end result (kid gets chicken pox naturally) was not all that bad.
Human cultures are generally cultures of fear. People who are afraid are easily controlled. The higher-ups know this and use it to their advantage. It is our responsibility to face these fears head on and accept negative outcomes (even death and sever debilitation) for what they are. We cannot control the nature of disease. This is the folly of the whole vaccine idea. We have commuted what the vaccines are for (protection from acute illness) into chronic diseases of the body and mind. It calls conventional wisdom into play when you realize that your priorities are screwed up and that it gets in the way of how you process information. Some people are awarded rude awakenings that change their perspective about certain things.
One canoot make decisions when covered under a blanket of fear. Those who fear will be controlled - that is the nature of the human spirit. I am not perfect, nor am I enlightened but I have to realize that doctors are trying to use the potential death of my child to rob me of my decision making skills. I cannot allow that to happen.
