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[emmacrew]

12 month doc visit today. Wm comes in at 29.25" tall (hanging out at the 25th percentile), half an ounce shy of 19 pounds (dropping down to the 5th percentile), with an 18.75" noggin. He's still a wee bit anemic, though his iron levels were better than 3 months ago. He demonstrated his bizarre scooting method of getting around, and stood up a bunch

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[huaman]

That's really upsetting. Really really upsetting. Thank you for posting that, upsetting though it is.

Randomly, we delayed Edward's MMR, for reasons of "random gut thing" as near as I can explain it; I wanted him to get it not at 1 year, but later, consistent with I forget which countries it was at the time (geeze, my memory of this is clearly fabulous). A few months later, he had a febrile seizure, and actual reputable sources at the time said, "hey, it's usually kids with those who have bad MMR reactions." There is just no telling about any of it, so far as I can see. I'm personally pro-vaccination as a general thing, and very much against fearmongering to get parents to make decisions one way or another. If that makes any sense.

[emmacrew]

Yeah, kathrynt delayed Hep B for little L, sometimes you've got to go with what feels right. And she'll tell ya an awful story about her brother and the pertussis vax. I agree with you, vaccination is a good thing, but trying to scare people into or out of it... not so good.

[platys]

I'm allergic to the DTP vaccine too, although as an adult, I just get feverish and achy and end up knocked out. Mom never said what happened when I was a baby, but for some reason they decided to keep giving me all my vaccines after that in little tiny doses. My vaccine record is huge.

[greyaenigma]

Wow. When science goes really, really bad.

[aylara]

O_O

Man, the whole MMR/autism camp is so vocal.

Clark was always kinda weird so we didn't suspect anything around vaccine times. I mean, we were the people asking every pediatrician, "Is he OK?" and "This seems weird," but they all said he was fine. Behaviorally, as soon as he could stand he was rocking, so that was nothing new. So I figured even if the vaccine did somehow trigger autism in a small percentage of kids, Clark wasn't in it.

I'm babbling. *zips it*

[emmacrew]

Yeah, there are so many things about P even at 6 months old that in retrospect should have put up big giant warning flags. I KNOW he was born that way.

Heck, even before he was born... I remember him flipping all over the place during the orchestra concerts I sang in a week or two before he was born. In retrospect, he was probably *trying to escape the noise* since there were 9 horns and a set of timpani within a matter of yards from us.

[aylara]

Awwwww...poor kid.

[bopeepsheep]

I delayed MMR a little (3-4m or so) because of the "autism link", but for the opposite reason to most: we had a very strong suspicion that, given family history, we were going to start seeing ASD signs in smallclanger around 13m, and I wanted our healthcare team and family to be aware of this before he had the vaccination, so that no one could say "it's because he had the MMR".

We - and our GP and Health Visitor - suspect he has Asperger's Syndrome, which fits with his father, uncle, and grandfather's behaviour. This is only now under investigation for a formal diagnosis, because it can't officially be done earlier, but all the toddler signs fit. I'm glad I got my concerns noted early on, because I've been able to use strategies with him that I might not otherwise have bothered about or even known about.

[emmacrew]

so that no one could say "it's because he had the MMR".

Excellent. Well, I mean, not excellent that he might be on the spectrum, but the way you handled that. And yes, it's good you noticed things early on, because early intervention is a very good thing.

[bopeepsheep]

It felt a bit surreal at the time - saying things like "no, I don't want him to have it until we see if he is autistic" got me some funny looks at the clinic, but I'm glad we did it that way.

[happyneedle]

Just want you to know I'm proud of you getting the MMR for Wm, even though it may not be the publicly popular thing to do at the moment. Like you, I know beastie was born autistic. It has never kept me from immunizing him or being an advocate for immunizations. I'm afraid if so many people randomly decide to avoid vaccines, we will have another epidemic on our hands, this time from people basing their decision on the over-the-top manufactured data of people with an agenda. Grrrr. Anyway, I'll stop now (or else I will go on and on and on) but I wanted to give you kudos for getting the shots.

[emmacrew]

If he'd shown any signs of maybe being autistic himself, I might have been swayed into asking to get the individual rather than combination shots (even though there's no evidence that it makes any difference at all). But really, what's the point of two extra pokes? As it is, one of the needles yesterday apparently went right through and back in (I don't know how else to explain the line of three tiny bleeding spots). Ugh.