my dc DIDNT have an adverse reaction and i don't vax! weigh in!

[aisraeltax]

i see this comment over and over here..that most of us here who dont vax has a dc who had an adverse reaction (im not speaking of one particular thread, so please dont talk about another thread and get this one closed).

technically, we are delaying (prob. permanently delaying for now). but i never had a dc who had an adverse reaction to any vax and my first 2 sons are fully vax'd (well, until about a year ago).

i believe that im not alone among the very knowledgable moms here who don't vax but also have never had a child with an adverse reaction.

right?

[Spy]

Do you mean people who used to vaccinate but stopped without having a child reacted? Or just non-vaccinating mothers who never took that chance? Or both?

[Plummeting]

My DD had an adverse reaction, but at the time the doctors told me it was normal, so I just refused the vaccine that had caused her reaction (Prevnar) and got another round of Hib and Polio 3 months later. It wasn't until after I'd already decided to stop vaccinating that I really realized exactly how abnormal and potentially dangerous it is for a 3-month-old to almost completely stop nursing, lose a couple ounces and have a fever from 103-105 for a full week in response to a vaccine. So, while DD did have a reaction, our decision to stop vaccinating (we had been doing a selective/delayed schedule) had nothing to do with that reaction. (Did I explain that well?)

[dani76]

I don't vax my DD, and I don't have a child that had an adverse reaction. Is that what you are looking for? I just did some research and trusted my intuition.

[aisraeltax]

i just mean ppl who are here, are chosing not to vax, but did not make the choice b/c THEIR child had an adverse reaction, which is a claim i see stated over and over on this forum.

i believe (dont know if its true or not) that there are many here who chose not to vax but do it b/c they have researched the issue, have learned what the risks/benefits are and have chosen not to vax.

i dont believe the decison not to vax is any easier if your own child has had an adverse reaction, i would just like to bust the myth that most of us are "only" here b/c our child had a reaction.

does that make sense in my very late world???

[Spy]

I'm in, then With two unvaccinated children.

[sunset]

Un vaxed and nothing to do with vax reactions.

[Plummeting]

Originally Posted by aisraeltax

i believe (dont know if its true or not) that there are many here who chose not to vax but do it b/c they have researched the issue, have learned what the risks/benefits are and have chosen not to vax.

i dont believe the decison not to vax is any easier if your own child has had an adverse reaction, i would just like to bust the myth that most of us are "only" here b/c our child had a reaction.

Well then, I still fit your criteria. I stopped vaccinating because I researched the issue. Our decision had nothing to do with her reaction, as it was a reaction to one specific vaccine, which we simply didn't give the next time around and we had no serious reaction the next time. We could just as easily have decided not to continue with that particular vaccine, but we researched and decided not to vaccinate at all.

[Mommy To Baby Roni]

No vaxed children here.

[Just_Isabel]

I don't have kids yet (so no reaction : ) and I'm tending not to vax. But I'm not done researching yet.
Basically, I'm 99,9% sure I won't vax (and if I do, it'll be delayed and selected) because vaxes seem to be unnecessary, the vax companies not honest, and there aren't enough studies to assure me that vaxes are safe.

[snowbird25ca]

We were already delayed/selective prior to my dd's reaction. And we've decided not to give vaxes that are unrelated to the one she reacted to too. So I think we partly fit. I was already researching and had concerns about vaxes prior to her being born. So while her reaction was the last straw, it wasn't the starting point for my questions & research if that's what you're wondering....

My reason was because a friend wasn't doing any vaxes and I set out to find research that proved her concerns wrong. : Surprise surprise, I ended up agreeing with her after looking at a lot of info.

[wednesday]

My son had 3 vaccines before we decided not to vax anymore. I thought the third dose made him kind of sick, fwiw, he had these long coughing spells and was throwing up and just wasn't himself for about 24 hours. But you know that the vaccine couldn't have caused that, it was just a coincidence . Anyway our choice not to vaccinate further really had nothing to do with that specific incident, and everything to do with the research we had been doing along the way regarding safety and efficacy.

[menudo]

I fit. DD was vaxed until age 4. I stopped thereafter and with DS. His Doc immediately aid "MMR does nto cause autism." Iremembering thinking, then saying " Ido not choose not to vax b/c of a fear of autism."But I will admit as I learned more I started to wonder about alot of things that happened to DD. Including her HSP, which there was so little on the internet about when she got it-and digging here one day I pulled up the vrivax insert only to see it listed asa potential reaction. I am not sure it was related, but interesting and eye opening nonetheless!

[Emmeline II]

Originally Posted by aisraeltax

i see this comment over and over here..that most of us here who dont vax has a dc who had an adverse reaction
right?

#1 is partially vaxed, no immediate noticeable reaction and we no longer vax.

[JeDeeLenae]

No known reactions here so far, and DS1 is fully vaxed for a 2 yr old and DS2 had only 3 shots... but no more.

I'm here because I had a feeling vax's weren't totally natural and there are more ingredients than just the disease. I don't like the idea of routinely injecting some odd amount of toxins into my son when I know we live in a toxic world as it is. I want to protect my boys from further toxins, not have a schedule to give them more.

[Mommiska]

I fit as well. Both of my older daughters are fully vaxed (well, almost - neither of them got their MMR boosters, because I'd finally done my research).

DS and DD3 are both completely unvaxed. To be honest, I always knew vaccinations carried a risk, and they scared me - but I bought into the official line that they were necessary, the diseases were scarier, etc., etc.

When I had DS (and I had a gut feeling that a boy was more likely to react to vaccinations), I finally did my research. And stopped vaccinating.

But we never had a serious vaccine reaction with either of my two older girls.

[Mirzam]

I have two unvaxed and one partcially vaxed who didn't have any serious vax reactions, she did react to the first and second dose of the DTP (inconsolable for two or three hours) though.

[broodymama]

DS and DD are both unvaxed.

However, my first cousin (22 years younger than me) had a vax reaction.

[alegna]

No vaccines for dd, so no reactions.

However I had reactions to tetanus.

-Angela

[traycanadian]

No vaxes for ds, so no reactions.