The great vaccine debate

Last nite i lay awake with anxiety for what is to come on friday... My son who is far from up to date with his childhood vaccinations has a doctors appointment for yes... shots.

Now i'm not "for" or "against" vaccines, however i do believe that in america children recieve far too many shots at a young age and they recieve a shot for every disease, illness, ailment you can think of.

For instance, when a child in australia is that only of a month old they are expected to recieve the shot against meningitis, commonly known as the hib vaccine.

In america your child will have only seen the world for that of a short second before they jab them with there first of what i counted, 26 shots before they reach the age of 1 year old.

Crazy??? paranoid???

Well not only are you as a parent expected to jab your child every 2 months with more than 6 shots at a time.

Your also expected to comply with it. Now as a mother i believe that as your childs voice and greatest advocate, you have the right to dictate when and how many shots your child gets.

To vaccinate your child is a decision, that not all parents decide on doing. After all if every other child is vaccinated, then they are safe from any disease and its your child, that if a disease should come around would be in danger of contracting.

And you would think that schools, other parents, would know this, BUT.... they are just as scared as the government. Stating " get that non vaccinated child away from my child, i don't want them to give my child measles" BUT

"I thought your child was vaccinated, so shouldn't that mean you have nothing to worry about?"

I have asked myself many times, why there is so much stigma on a vaccine must for all children in the states and why they enforce an almost communist approach to vaccinations.

I have come up with an answer, the cdc, centres for disease control, issued a statement after a ANOTHER infant was reported dead in his bed with no explanation other than they all had a few days ago recieved as many as 6 shots at one time.

"We cannot be held responsible for any deaths related to and linked with the vaccines"

What??? But i thought you said they were safe?

What are we injecting our children with? And why so many shots at one time?

Well, its is rumoured to be, that its much easier for the insurance companies providing the shots to do all the paperwork at once when it comes to vaccines, so therefore why not just get as many shots as you can in one visit.

The easy road for them.

And don't think that if you decide to not vaccinate your child you'll be on the easy road... Ohhhh no, your far from the easy road, doctors will reject seeing your child, schools will deny them entry, even emergency room techs will have a reluctance to see your child..

Even when they are all grown up, and are ready to take on job opportunities, any government job asks for a vaccine history and believe in me, if not up to date. NO JOB.

So thats why the anxiety over a routine visit to the doctor, gets me all worked up.

With the pressure to comply and my childs best interests at heart, its hard to decide on which road i will travel.