Are you a fence-sitter in regards to vaccinations?

[Shanaynay]

If you are a fence-sitter, in that you believe the negatives and positives of vaccinations (or non-vaxxing) are about equal, so you don't really know which is the best way to go...
... do you choose to vax your child, or not vax your child?

[JabberJaw]

I am a vaxxer, the benifits outweigh the risks for me. My son has been delay vaxxed as he had a medical condition in which the opposite applied ( the risks where to high ).

I am a fence sitter in regards to the vaxx for young girls though, the HPV one for cervical cancer, so far i dont think she will be having it, but i am not 100% decided.

I know there are risks in vaxxing but there are greater risks with some of the things they actually prevent, people think they are 'mild' childhood illnesses, but on greater research of the actual illnesses, i have found the statement that they are 'mild' to be untrue in a sense. Terrible complications can arise from alot of them and the rate of a complication is much higher than a complication with a vaxx.

[stellarella]

I know there are risks in vaxxing but there are greater risks with some of the things they actually prevent, people think they are 'mild' childhood illnesses, but on greater research of the actual illnesses, i have found the statement that they are 'mild' to be untrue in a sense. Terrible complications can arise from alot of them and the rate of a complication is much higher than a complication with a vaxx.

I have found the exact opposite to be true...but there you go :)

I'm not really a fence sitter. I know which side of the fence I am on. However there is no denying that it is a complicated issue.

I'm not sure one can really be a fence sitter. Especially as a vaxer. Once the vaccines are in there is no getting them out. You have to make the decision either way.

But I understand where you are at Z. You don't fall on either side of the fence and so have just chosen a side because you had to.

[Fuchsia!]

I would have to say im a fence sitter but both legs are swinging on the no vax side.

I have been fighting with the decision to vax or not vax for yonks now! I hate it!

But for now the risks of vaxxing for my child is greater then not, by just a little bit. So for that reason i have not vaxxed.

At least i still have the choice though, if i vax i can't choose then can i?! SO until i find something that will make me want to vax then he will remain unvaxxed :)

[Laksa]

i chose 'other'...

we had Harper's vaccs done up to 12 months because we took him overseas on two occasions and felt that he would be at a higher risk of coming into contact with diseases. he has not had, and will not have, the chicken pox vaccine. we will discuss his 4 year old vaccs closer to the time.

as for the new baby, i am still deciding (yes, it is last minute!)...

[Sheer Bliss]

I never used to give it that much thought.....by the time i did, DS was past 12months, so the only one I put much thought into has been the CP one. He still hasn't had it.........as I am too much of a fence sitter on that to make a decision. I just wanted him to get it before he was 18months to take the decision out of my hands. On something like CP, i believe natural immunity is the best thing. However......i think he will be getting it done now I am pregnant. I still havent' actually gone and done it yet, but I am leaning towards doing it.

[Nowhere]

oh yes I am but then I think I am a fence sitter in most things, I can always see both sides I think its a blessing and a curse lol

I know that there are risks from vaxing and they scare me, but i also know that my DDs ability to fight infection is next to none, for example her white cel count is currently a 2 which is not good, so if she was to catch one of the vaxable diseases she wouldnt get through it KWIM, Rota virus for her was realy realy bad, When miki had her first few vaxes I didnt realy think about it, and I know that sounds bad but at the time DH and I where at the stage where we felt our DD belenged more to the hospital than us, Its a hard feeling to explain but you get to a point where you are scared to have a say KWIM, That was up until her 6 month vaxes then we caried on to vax her but to her own schedual, we didnt have any vaxes done together and they was all done when she had a high enough WBC to try and get some sort of a immune response to the vax etc.

I dont know if we have done the right thing especialy with all the stuf at the moment about vaxing and Mitochondrial disfunction, as my DDs drs are prety certain that that is what she has, I know that vaxing hasnt cuased this but it does wory me about the link with vaxing lito kids and autism etc, I gues with my dd we will never know as we wont know what is caused by her syndrome and what could be from vaxing KWIM

I as I said can see both side, I think its great that some dont vax and I think it is great that some do, I dont like that vaxes think that non vaxes spread disease i think thats pathetic but at the same time I do not like that some vaxes think that vaxers are ignorant and blind to the facts.

I think its great that we have a choice of weather to vax or not, and I think that its great that before choosing not to vax that 99.9 percent of people reserch it greatly

So yer im a fence sitter there is risks both ways

[SuperGranny]

hi, I think I lean towards vaccinations. All my children have all the childhood vaccinations as they were scheduled. I never thought about not doing it, it was just the done thing. However, I am now a grandmother and I have had time to read all the information for and against. I am not going to start Hormone Replacement Therapy, and I am not recommending my daughters get the "cervical cancer vac". I have become very doubtful of the medical profession, and very suspicious of the pharmacutical professional as a general thing, and so perhaps,,, given my time again, I might not vaccinate, but what's done is done. And all my children have had no adverse reactions to any of the vaccines.

[Roopee]

I have big splinters in my bum from sitting on that fence!

I am a selective/delay/relaxed/lazy vaxxer......make any sense?