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I chose not to vaccinate both my children. We have a long family history of adverse reactions to vaccines, including myself. The CDC website even tells you if you have close family members have had bad reactions, you should skip that vaccine.
I knew I could not take the chance with my kids, However, It was still not an easy decision, and I still second guess myself sometimes.
It's true that most pediatricians won't see unvacinated kids. So, I always went to the walk in clinic when I needed to take my kids to the doctor. Luckily, this was pretty rare.
You will find the your grandchildren will be remarkably more healthy than their peers. My girls have had the flu a couple of times and a few colds, and that's about it.
It seemed like their peers were constantly sick and had one ear infection after another.
I recently went to the clinic to get my daughter a physical for volley ball. The doctor that saw her was Japanese. He was looking through her medical history and said she was probably so healthy because she wasn't pumped full of vaccines that destroyed her immune system.
I was shocked, and no other doctor has ever said that to me. In fact, just the opposite.
I think it has to do with him believing in both Eastern and Western medicine.
Just my own opinion. Polio is bad news. In my youth, I had the Salk and years later the Saban. I think the Saban was about 1967. Seriously, everyone should get vaccinated for Polio. Chicken pox...no big deal. Polio...a horror story. Get the vaccine. Get it for the kids. The kids need the vaccine for Polio.
Wow, I love your doctor.
I just went through the process with a doctor in California who gets it. She immediately wrote me a lifetime exemption for my son with special needs to fight the CA mandatory vaccine law. She also is in the process of getting my daughter an exemption based on genetics, we don’t have the tests back. My daughter is extraordinarily healthy too. I don’t want the chance of messing her up neurologically. I want my children to have strong immune systems and fully functioning brains.
Any freepers in CA who want to use a CA doctor who cares about your child’s true immune system and see if your child may be exempted, I will share her name in a freepmail. She doesn’t need to be local, any in state doc will do and she can examine your child’s records and skype or phone appt with you.
Only 2 countries, (Germany is one, Japan may be the other), have conducted studies on vaccinated vs unvaccinated children and their conclusions match your experience.
I recently went to the clinic to get my daughter a physical for volley ball. The doctor that saw her was Japanese. He was looking through her medical history and said she was probably so healthy because she wasn't pumped full of vaccines that destroyed her immune system.
I began to research this just before my granddaughter was born. There are several excellent resources on the topic. Initially, we considered Dr. Sear's modified schedule approach (he has written several books) but the more I researched the more I learned about how the human body's natural design wards off viruses. Vaccinations bypass this process. They use aluminum to carry the vaccine to its target in the brain. The nasty truth though is: “Compelling research has demonstrated that aluminum is an accumulative neurotoxin, even in small concentrations. It has a tendency to concentrate in the hippocampus, an area of the brain vital to crucial functions including learning, memory, and behavior.... Of the 36 vaccines children get, 18 of them contain aluminum.” And in high concentrations. I spent 30 years trying to figure out why my daughter had so many problems. This information was the key that unlocked the mystery.