So we took LO to his 2 month vax appt. First the dr asked about if I was formula feeding or breast feeding. I answered exclusivley BFing. She answered with "Still?!" in a kinda snobby way....even dh noticed. Then I told her how LO wakes from a sleep choking and gasping. She goes on to tell me that it is normal for babies to "sigh deeply" yada yada. I tell her its not a "sigh". She continues talking about babies and "sighing". Whatever.
Then we tell her we want to delay and be really selective in what we give. She tells us how she has people that do not vax but never heard of delaying vaccines. Then she goes into how whooping cough season is here and he is high risk for it? and it could hosptalize him. So after talking about it for a few minutes dh and I reluctantly agree to the dtap because we are concerned about whooping cough. We did not do any others tho.
She also told us how the "immunity" from the vaccines wear off so you need to redo them in adolescence in adulthood. So dh says then why do they give babies the hepB? She says its so if they do drugs and share needles or have unprotected sex with someone infected they are vaccinated. DH laughs and says "well hes not doing that obviously"....yanno cause he is a BABY. And she says "Well what if he decides to be a dr. and gets pricked with dirty infected needle?" DH says "well we will let him know that he hasn't had the vaccine and he can decide if he wants it". She replies with something along the lines of ...lets hope you are "around" to tell him and to make sure we do.
WEIRD.
So....now he has had one hepb and vit. K at birth (cause we didnt know) and one dtap.
What do you think? What would you do?
Then we tell her we want to delay and be really selective in what we give. She tells us how she has people that do not vax but never heard of delaying vaccines. Then she goes into how whooping cough season is here and he is high risk for it? and it could hosptalize him. So after talking about it for a few minutes dh and I reluctantly agree to the dtap because we are concerned about whooping cough. We did not do any others tho.
She also told us how the "immunity" from the vaccines wear off so you need to redo them in adolescence in adulthood. So dh says then why do they give babies the hepB? She says its so if they do drugs and share needles or have unprotected sex with someone infected they are vaccinated. DH laughs and says "well hes not doing that obviously"....yanno cause he is a BABY. And she says "Well what if he decides to be a dr. and gets pricked with dirty infected needle?" DH says "well we will let him know that he hasn't had the vaccine and he can decide if he wants it". She replies with something along the lines of ...lets hope you are "around" to tell him and to make sure we do.
WEIRD.
So....now he has had one hepb and vit. K at birth (cause we didnt know) and one dtap.
What do you think? What would you do?
