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Vaccinating Baby: One Mom’s Struggle with Deciding What’s Right For her Baby

Allison Wolff — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:24:29 +0000

Does every mom struggle as much as I do with signing up to have the doctor stick their baby with a needle full of potentially harmful ingredients that makes baby scream with teary eyes that say “why are you doing this to me” followed by two days of fever?

OK, maybe I’m a wimp, but, when I read books like Dr. Sears’s The Vaccine Book and articles like “Vaccine Debate” in Mothering Magazine this month, I feel rather vindicated for being very cautious about vaccinating my little one year old girl, Emerson.

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Guarding Against Gardasil

Cate Nelson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:00:00 +0000

I have a 13-year-old girl in my house. And she won’t be getting the Gardasil shot.

No, I’m not one of those parents who believes that the HPV shot will encourage sexual behavior. The boredom and pressures of being a teen will take care of that, thank you very much.

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New Study Links Autism to Environment

Becky Striepe — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:00:26 +0000

A recent study at the University of California Davis found a correlation between fetal and infant exposure to pesticides, household chemicals, and viruses and the rise of children diagnosed with autism.

[Creative Commons photo by Arria Belli]

In the past, vaccinations were a suspected link to increased autism due to the mercury-derived preservative thimerosal, but that chemical has not been used in vaccines since 1999. Autism rates are still on the rise. Better diagnosis has also been discussed as a reason for the increase, but researchers say that a jump this large can’t be attributed to diagnosis alone. California has seen autism diagnosis jump by 700%, and researchers are now saying that environmental factors are likely the culprits.

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Unvaccinated Children Cause Measles Outbreak

mcmilker — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:50:06 +0000

I found this article…a little inflammatory, don’t you think? Here’s what it says:

Some parents’ refusal to vaccinate children seems to be behind the highest rate of measles cases reported since 1996, federal officials said Thursday.

Between Jan. 1 and July 31 of this year, 131 measles cases have been reported in the United States, many of them among children whose parents have philosophical or religious objections to the vaccine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey’s Green Childhood Vaccines: Oxymoron or a Possibilty?

Jennifer Lance — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:50:09 +0000

Many parents are concerned about the safety of childhood vaccines, and my attention was caught by Mothering’s action alert about “Green Vaccines”. What the heck is a green vaccine? It sounds like an oxymoron to me. Jenny McCarthy, spokesperson for Talk About Curing Autism (TACA), and Jim Carrey are calling for support of the Green Our Vaccines Rally for Autism.

On June 4, 2008, the Green Vaccines rally will be held in Washington, D.C. The rally cry is:

We are not anti-vaccine, we are anti-toxins.

Green our Vaccines!!

Change the schedule, babies are getting too much too soon.

We support informed consent for all families

To give the moms and dads around the world a day to be heard. This is their day. This will be their moment.

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Spacing and Splitting Up Vaccinations – Not As Easy As It Seems

mcmilker — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:48:46 +0000

Like many of us, the more you learn about vaccines the more you run up against the perplexing question: To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate. Like me, you may have decided to vaccinate but not on schedule and not multiple vaccines at one time.

Now that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are combined into one shot, the MMR vaccine, avoiding those mega doses of vaccinations in one visit is a little harder. With a little ingenuity however, you can have the shot for each disease administered separately.

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