Healthy Parenting

Vaccinations

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate. A question that some parents spend countless hours agonizing over. The decision not to vaccinate did not come easily for us. It came only after deciding NOT to do anything "just because everyone else did it". It came after being okay with questioning what is considered to be the societal norm. It came after reading everything pro and con that we could find. And finally, it came after weighing what we saw to be the risks of the vaccines and of the individual diseases.

                    

What we found didn't prove to us that injecting a toxic chemical cocktail into our precious newborn baby was a risk worth taking. No one talks about the risks of vaccines, only the disease risks. The vaccine risks are there. They can also be found listed on the inserts that accompany vaccines. The same ones that your doctors are supposed to be showing you.

As my research continued, I started to see a pattern of what I can only describe as lies. Vaccines supposedly were the MAIN and ONLY reason for the decline of many childhood illnesses based on everything I had been told my entire life. Yet, the research I found showed that the diseases had been in decline for in some cases more than 40 years prior to mass vaccine introduction. The pro vaccine graphs showed the decline starting only at the date vaccinations were introduced (where each and every time there is a spike). Conveniently, avoiding the fact that they had been in steady decline prior to the vaccine introduction. There are many, many reasons that we decided not to vaccinate. Below are a few of them.

First, one of THE best articles summarizing the vaccine issue is A User Friendly Vaccine Schedule.

Toxic ingredients!

It is beyond my comprehension that medical doctors (who are sworn to cause no harm) find it not only safe to inject newborns lacking a developed immune system with chemicals and other ingredients but deem it not even worth mentioning as a concern. Chemicals such as; formaldehyde (a carcinogen), aluminum, MSG, aborted fetal tissue, animal blood and organ tissue, methanol, borax, to name a few. It just doesn't make any sense. No matter how much I read, I can not find anything stating these things are healthful in anyway. Let's not even discuss thimersol, which while mostly now eliminated there are still traces of it. I just love the "a little bit of exposure to toxins is okay" theory, especially when used in conjunction with a chemical like thimersol which is accumulative.
http://www.vaclib.org/basic/vacingredient.htm
http://www.vaccination.inoz.com/ingredie.html
http://www.drgreene.com/21_522.html

Killer Diseases?

Many of the diseases vaccinated for are NOT the killers that we are led to believe. I keep thinking of the chicken pox commercial that I saw on television. It was talking about losing your baby to chicken pox and how you didn't want that to happen so hurry and get your kids vaccinated. I guess if you aren't as old as I am, you wouldn't know that EVERYBODY used to get chicken pox when they were kids. It is NOT the killer disease that the commercial said it was. Even the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advised in it's 1996 brochure, "most children who are otherwise healthy and get chickenpox won't have any complications from the disease."

Chicken Pox

Most people who contract Chicken Pox are left with life long immunity without any complications. However, now we are creating an entire population of adults who never had Chicken Pox because they were vaccinated for it as children. Why the concern? Vaccines usually only provide temporary immunity. And that means, that adults are now more susceptible to Chicken Pox which IS a problem since Chicken Pox in adults is a much more serious illness with a higher rate of severe complications. Many parents are looking to expose their children to chicken pox in order to obtain that lifelong immunity and avoid adult chicken pox. Here's a new group that will hopefully help; http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chickenpoxparties

http://www.mothering.com
http://64.41.99.118/vran/vaccines/cpox/pox_protection.htm
http://www.all.org/activism/pox01.htm
http://www.909shot.com/Diseases/chickenpox%20facts.htm
http://www.reutershealth.com/wellconnected/doc82.html

Measles

"The real problem here is inventing the problem to sell the solution. What the government has done is to demonize what, a generation ago, was considered a benign disease in well nourished populations. Measles is not a random killer among well nourished children. In the five years between 1989-1994 there were only six deaths among children aged 0-19 with 59,263 cases of measles; an average of one death a year. Children in the West do not die of measles when they are well nourished. Doctors also better understand how to treat complications. Even in Africa, children with adequate stores of vitamin A stop dying of measles."

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2465/is_2_31/ai_71634861

Rubella

Rubella, better known as German Measles is a VERY mild childhood disease. The symptoms are so mild that it often goes undiagnosed. Babies are vaccinated against Rubella ONLY because they are accessible. The concern being that pregnant mothers' unborn babies exposed to Rubella can suffer serious damage. THIS is the reason we vaccinate all babies, boys and girls against Rubella. I wonder why the campaign wasn't geared toward women wanting to become pregnant. When my husband and I first decided we wanted to have a baby, the first thing we did BEFORE starting to try to conceive was to both go for medical check ups. This is where we learned that I needed to be tested for the Rubella antibodies. If I didn't have them, I would need the vaccination and then shouldn't try to get pregnant for a few months. Isn't this about personal accountability? Did someone somewhere actually say, "oh we can't count on women taking the proper precautions so let's vaccinate the infants when we have them - even though we don't really know for sure if the antibodies produced will last through to the childbearing years".
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/germanmeasles.htm
http://www.whale.to/m/butler2.html

Conflict of Interest!

Those that are "given" the power to make vaccine rule and law are financially tied to the profits of vaccines. How is this acceptable to anyone?

Vaccine Conflict of Interest
http://www.healing-arts.org/children/vaccines/vaccines-conflict.htm#conflict

Shoot First Ask Questions Later (Conflict of Interest)
http://www.laleva.cc/choice/vaccine_bekin.html

Vaccine Science's Conflict of Interest
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/15005/

Shots Cured All?

Disease incidence was in a steady decline PRIOR to the introduction of vaccines. See the graphs at the Health Sentinel

Articles

Deadly Immunity - by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7395411?&rnd=1137977122921&has-player=true&version=6.0.8.1024

Vaccine Scene 2000 --- Part Two (a very important read)
http://www.haciendapub.com/article36.html

Should We Vaccinate? You Decide
http://www.members.tripod.com/HokusPokus_2/shouldwevaccinate.html

Vaccination is NOT Immunization
http://www.lightparty.com

Health World's Vaccine Articles
http://www.healthy.net/clinic/familyhealthcenter/children/vaccination/articles.asp

The Polio Vaccine Myth
http://members.tripod.com/DrSugi/polio.html

Vaccination Liberation page on Polio- graphs and stats
http://www.vaclib.org/basic/polio.htm

Gary Null's Vaccines: A Second Opinion
http://www.garynull.com/Documents/Vaccines/VaccinesOpinion/vaccines-2ndop01Intro.htm

Recommended Reading

• The Vaccine Guide: Risks and Benefits for Children and Adults


• How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor


• A Shot in the Dark: Why the P in the Dpt Vaccination May Be Hazardous to Your Child's Health


• The Vaccine Guide: Making an Informed Choice

Resources

Vaccine Website: ingredients, inserts, information, etc.
http://whale.to/vaccines.html

Vaccine Information and Awareness
http://home.san.rr.com/via/

Vaccination Liberation!
http://www.vaclib.org/index.htm

Holistic Med's Vaccination Internet Resources
http://www.holisticmed.com/www/vaccine.html

Sheri Nakken's Vaccine Site
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm

Vaccination Debate
http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/

Think Twice
http://thinktwice.com/

Pesticides and Polio
http://www.geocities.com/harpub/

National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)
http://www.909shot.com/

THE STORY OF THE SALK ANTI-POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/bayly.htmldefault.htm

Health Sentinel - Disease & Mortality Rate Graphs
http://www.healthsentinel.com/graphs.php

Vaccine Risk Awareness Network
http://64.41.99.118/vran/#

Vaccine Truth
http://www.vaccinetruth.org/index.htm

Homeopathy for Chicken Pox, Measles, Rubella and Mumps (and other illnesses)
http://www.homeopathic.com/articles/using_h/index.php