So DS 1 year check up and shots were today. He is up to date on his vax's, except for today: my fiance and discussed it and decided to opt out of the Chicken Pox vax. I knew the doc was going to give me flack; in fact I warned Ryan not to cave. But, jeepers! You would have thought I was subjecting my child to AIDS instead of Chicken Pox! "Children DIE from chicken pox!" And something about his brain rotting and horrible scars all over his body, b/c CP isn't "run of the mill" like when we were kids, now it's this "super virus" and I "don't want Darren getting Chicken Pox!"
Okay. I KNOW I'm not a bad mom. Out of 4 million cases a year, there are fewer than 100 deaths. Even with the vax, there's still a good chance he'll get CP (which she told me, but when I said it sounded pretty pointless then, she said, "Oh, but it'll be mild, and he won't get complications from it!"). Still, I have a shadow of a doubt in my mind.
Please reassure me!
PS-->She also said, "Well you wouldn't want him to get measles, would you?" which was the wrong thing to say
. I was like, "Actually, I wouldn't care if he got them naturally, but I know he [my fiance] would, so I pick my battles." Of course, I got cut off in the middle of that sentence
Okay. I KNOW I'm not a bad mom. Out of 4 million cases a year, there are fewer than 100 deaths. Even with the vax, there's still a good chance he'll get CP (which she told me, but when I said it sounded pretty pointless then, she said, "Oh, but it'll be mild, and he won't get complications from it!"). Still, I have a shadow of a doubt in my mind.
Please reassure me!
PS-->She also said, "Well you wouldn't want him to get measles, would you?" which was the wrong thing to say
. I was like, "Actually, I wouldn't care if he got them naturally, but I know he [my fiance] would, so I pick my battles." Of course, I got cut off in the middle of that sentence 
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