Pumping and Vaccines...

[hoodsey]

Hey everyone, I rarely post here but I'm 30 weeks today and was racking my brain earlier with some questions...

Comments

[yooperchild]

I vaccinated, because the biggest study against it had a lot of problems with it and most of what I found denounced the study completely.

And I teach in a public school and there are certain vaccines students need to get in the classroom. My school actually had students sent home last year that weren't up to date and they were not allowed to return until they were. To my knowledge, there is no way around that. But again, I only saw that from the teacher standpoint and not the parent standpoint, so there might be.

[hoodsey]

Thats what I thought. I used to work for a school district and during registration we required vaccination records.

A friend who doesn't vaccinate enrolled her two girls in preschool last week and had to get a note from her doctor saying they were healthy due to them not having certain vaccines. Thats what really made me wonder...

[herladyship]

This is true in Canada, too.

[naomijameston]

May I ask, and please tell me if I'm being rude, what were you worried of that made you delay the vaccines?

[kissfirst]

Both of my son had their vaccines and my daughter gets her first lot tomorrow eeeek. I had mine and everyone I know that's had theirs have been fine so. All i've really seen is the kids whos familys don't get theirs done and they catch something and become seriously ill/die.

[ias]

I didn't introduce the bottle until my son was 6 weeks old in order to lessen the likelihood of nipple confusion. If you need to be away from baby before then, the recommendation is to use cup feeding to lessen nipple confusion (see more about cup feeding. Initially I just stored milk in the fridge for the odd hours I'd be away and the Spouse would be feeding our son but I gradually built up a freezer stash for when I returned to work. I was also lucky in that we took the bus to work and the garklet was in the workplace nursery so I could breastfed him on the way to work, at lunchtime and on the bus journey home as well as feeding him at home

[mere]

I always love your comments!

[ias]

Thank you!

[flirtatiouspris]

I am on an alternate vaccine schedule due to the concerns of too many vaccines at once and the ammount of chemicals found in vaccines. I am also going to decline the MMR and the Chicken Pox vaccine, the first due to my two younger sisters having bad reactions to that vaccine and the second because it is not a complete vaccine and if they do get it later in life it could be worse due to the vaccine not working anymore. I had chicken pox and it was just fine. I barely noticed them and I was 11 at the time. I would rather my son go through that then get it as an adult like a family member of mine who had an awful time with it.

[kissfirst]

The do vacines against chicken pox? wth? :s

[darsynia]

They do, but it's often considered irresponsible, because if you vax when they say to, your child will be needing a booster around early adulthood, the time when they're often unwilling to get the booster, forget, or don't have health insurance to pay for it. CP is already worse when you're an adult, but apparently it's even worse if you've been vaccinated for it and then don't get the booster--so many people are passing on the vaccination.

[ias]

Yes they do.

We don't routinely do it in the UK but it is available. As I didn't have chicken pox when a kid (despite all my friends getting it), I was tested when I wanted to start ttc-ing to find out if I was immune as chicken pox in pregnancy can be very nasty for the baby. Luckily I had immunity otherwise it would have been a course of two injections, three months apart and not being able to start ttc-ing until a fe months afterwards because the vaccine is a live one.