A curious question. One which is not intended to offend, or end up as a debate of...

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~*Madi*~

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...*right/wrong* ...? I'm just curious to know how you as parents decided to immunize or not immunize your child(ren). How did you decide which one to follow by? Was it a hard decision for you to make? Or did you have your mind made up from the beginning on which will be best for your children?

Obviously, all parents have made the decision to immunize or not immunize their child(ren) & has put a lot of time & effort into their decision. That's something we all need to respect.

Thanks for the answers, again : this is not a case of who's right/wrong. It's a respectful question, and all the answers are correct and deserve respect too.
You can by all means, state why you made your decision if you want. I just don't want to be the source parents feeling as if their being ganged up on, or feeling as if their being belittled by other parents :-) As I said, every answer is right, whatever choice you made !
Thumbs down aren't from me btw :-)
 
I discussed it with my husband and we made our decision. I didn't feel like the topic needed extra research beyond what I already knew and experienced, although in hindsight perhaps it warranted some.
 
Our decision was based on a lot of research. It was not a hard choice at all. Reading the ingredients of vaccines was enough to tell me it's a horrible idea to shoot them into your child. Along with that the many, many studies showing reactions to vaccines including seizures, fever, projectile vomiting, failure to thrive, developmental delays and death were very helpful. Most studies that support vaccines are funded by companies making money on them. I personally know 4 babies who had severe reactions and I don't think risking death and seizures is any better than risking my child getting sick which is a much lesser risk. The things we vaccinate against can be treated with medical care and common sense. The things the vaccines do to your child can not be treated. It was not difficult to choose at all. I have seen too many babies hurt by them and I know a lot of families who don't vaccinate and their children are healthy and happy and most times actually more so than their vaccinated peers.
 
we knew that we were going to immunize our children before they were born. it was an easy decision because after doing some research we found that all of the cases where autism was present was from an underlying pre-existing medical condition. i will not expose my children to deadly diseases when they can be prevented...
 
We decided to vaccinate. It wasn't hard to decide either. We just did.

The only one I did stop and question was the rota-virus vaccine because that was new compared to when I had my first. I just asked some questions though... My first had rota-virus and after dealing with that it wasn't hard to say yes to that vaccine either...

I agree. It isn't about who is right and who is wrong. Really I can't say I think either is wrong either. Being a parent is about making choices and we have all made choices for our children that we as PARENTS feel were in their best interest.
 
I never thought of not doing it. I think some of the immunizations are silly. Like chicken pox. I had chicken pox and I'm sure most moms here did too. Some of our moms actually made us play with kids that already had them so we could get it over with. I wouldn't say that was necessary to be immunized for. But the school thought differently.
 
I'm with Johnny's Mommy. it was quite easy.

It was either Immunize and protect my children from diseases that could kill them or not immunize and take that risk that they will be susceptible to those diseases.

Both my children are immunized.
 
Since you are just asking for a simple method on how to decide something, it really shouldnt spark debate. But I basically read up, talked to docs, talked to other parents.
 
Since you are just asking for a simple method on how to decide something, it really shouldnt spark debate. But I basically read up, talked to docs, talked to other parents.
 
We decided to immunize our children but on a much slower schedule. My son is 1 year old and he has only received 5 inoculations so far. My daughter is 2.5 and has just finished her inoculations that she would have received as an infant. We decided on not going with the normal vaccination schedule because we thought it was just too much too fast for an infants immature immune system.
 
a perfectly legitimate question, but good luck with that. it's really hard to get people to answer the question you're actually asking when they see their trigger word.....

i was relatively knowledgeable about vaccines because of miscellaneous reading on the subject that i did before having kids. i also discussed it with my childrens' doctor. out of an abundance of caution, i did additional internet research when my second child was born and that additional research simply confirmed my original opinion. in all, i did not find it a remotely difficult decision.
 
I have never thought about not immunizing my children. In my opinion there is so much more of a risk if you do not.
 
We decided to immunize our daughter because we did not want to risk some of the horrible diseases that they can get from not being immunized. I would rather see her cry for 20 seconds from getting a shot, than risk having her crippled or dead from disease!
 
With my first, I didn't realize I had a choice. Once I met people who did not vaccinate, I heard their side of the story, and I thought it was cool, but I still chose to vaccinate my kids. I wasn't sure why, I just kind of did it because vaccines were expected where I lived.

Now, I am informed about vaccines. I know how they're made, what's in them and how they work. I understand the risks and benefits. I still choose to vaccinate my children. I hope it's the right choice.
 
I've been doing the slow schedule of vaccines, I absolutely agree that vaccinations should be given to children because these are diseases that kill, however I don't think my child should be given several at a time or within a month or two. Why? There are chances for reactions with every vaccine, I feel it's better to not overload her little system, especially with the live virus vaccines.So we do vaccinate, but on my own schedule which spaces them apart and father between in time. I research every one she gets, evaluate the risk and decide with her pediatriction which brands to use and when.
 
We are doing some vaccinations, delaying some, and skipping on others.

Check out the Vaccine Book by Dr. Sears. He includes info on the diseases, how common they are, how the vaccines are made, risks of the vaccines, risks of the diseases, etc. He also includes an alternate vaccination schedule.

We just do a ton of research for ourselves to decide what's right for us. Our first had a bad reaction to the MMR and varivax vaccine.
 
sometime towards the end of my first pregnancy i started to research vaccines and i decided to wait until my son was 5 months to start and i started them on my own schedule. i got him vaccinated for pertussis first bc i discovered that pertussis was the biggest risk for newborns in my state, and i chose to hold off on all of the others until he was 1 yr, which i did and he was fine.
with my daughter i did the same thing. i had to fight through a few drs to get it done this way but it was my informed decision
 
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