The big question for new parents was to either breastfeed or formula feed, but now a days with concern over side effects of vaccination and supposed link to autism; the bigger question remains, should you vaccinate your child? For some states such as Mississippi and West Virginia, there is no choice for parents to make, it’s a resounding yes. But over 20 states allow children to be unvaccinated and almost all states allow unvaccination for religious reasons.

With my concern over recent controversy of vaccines (especially MMR) being linked to autism, I ordered The Vaccine Book by Dr. Robert Sears. The book itself offer invaluable resource over each vaccination including:

• How common or rate, as well as how serious, each disease is.
• How each vaccine is made and what its ingredients are
• Which ingredients are potentially controversial
• Possible side effects
• Which brand is considered the safest

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