View Full Version : Why did you choose to Vax?
Blueberry Crumble
10-07-2009, 20:40
I need to know the reasons why people vaxed :)
Mummaholic
10-07-2009, 20:43
Because I believe the risks are outweighed by the benefits.
Cos I didn't want my son dying of a preventable disease. If everyone didn't vax there'd be kids dying of childhood diseases all over the place & kids who's lives were wrecked from polio..... just like there used to be.
Opinionated
10-07-2009, 21:07
I think the risks of vaccination are quite small, but the benefits, both to my child and the community are huge.
I could never forgive myself for not immunising if my child suffered an adverse consequence from a preventable disease.
My kids had a mild case of whooping cough at the end of last year. They are vaxxed but still got a mild case. My best friends newborn was too young for the vaccine and seeing how terribly ill she was cemented my feelings that I had made the right decision.
Because I've seen too many children die from preventable diseases. I will always remember talking to these two parents whose toddler had contracted pneumococcal meningitis. She wasn't vaccinated and I can still picture the guilt on their face when they asked me if she would have got it of she was vaccinated. That's a position I don't want to be in as a parent.
Myztiks#1Fan
10-07-2009, 21:47
because i always thought they had to be vaxxed, it was something that everyone did as i thought it was compulsary. i didnt know any different so i have just kept up the vaccines.
Because I've seen too many children die from preventable diseases. I will always remember talking to these two parents whose toddler had contracted pneumococcal meningitis. .
How long ago was this?
She wasn't vaccinated and I can still picture the guilt on their face when they asked me if she would have got it of she was vaccinated. That's a position I don't want to be in as a parent.
What kind of picture do you think were on the faces of the parents whos children contracted diseases when there was no vaccination available? Probably the same?
Mummaholic
10-07-2009, 22:20
What kind of picture do you think were on the faces of the parents whos children contracted diseases when there was no vaccination available? Probably the same?
I doubt it, as they had no such option in those days.
It was only a few years ago. They felt intense guilt and you could see it on their face. Knowing that a vaccine may have prevented their child from becoming severely ill would be difficult to deal with I think
Those days? It wasnt that long ago!
dad2be- so they were NON vaxxers? Or was there NO vaccine available? Just How many years ago was this, you must know? How old their child now and subtracting two years should do it.
I think the risks of vaccination are quite small, but the benefits, both to my child and the community are huge.
I could never forgive myself for not immunising if my child suffered an adverse consequence from a preventable disease.
this is why,
Vaccinating is the reason alot of these disease are not common any more
BabelFish
11-07-2009, 00:41
Because vaccination is the reason - the sole reason - that illnesses such as smallpox, polio and so on and so forth have all but disappeared from our society. Vaccination has saved countless millions of lives. Vaccination is protecting a whole community, not just your child. Even if one in ten children isn't vaccinated, this increases the risk to the rest of the population. This is also a fact.
People who are anti-vax should read the book `Blind Faith' by Ben Elton - which is a pretty stupid book, really - but one of the issues in it is that on Earth, in a hundred years or so when it is set, one in two children dies of preventable diseases such as rubella, because more and more people decided not to vaccinate their children, and these diseases became prevalent again. It's a fiction book, but that part of it is an accurate prediction of a future without vaccination.
All you have to do is look at countries where vaccines are not as widely used as they are in ours. Children are dying. In far greater numbers than they should be, and in far greater numbers than they are here.
Every, single person who chooses not to vaccinate their child is putting the rest of our children in danger. It's just the simple truth. And I'd never do that to my own child, let alone anybody else's. That's why we vax.
peanutbutter&jelly
11-07-2009, 01:20
Why not?
For me part of the vaxxing pro's (and a small part at that!) was my DF has Asperger's. That is, he falls on the autism spectrum. He was not vaxxed. His parents thought it too dangerous.
I'm sure they were only too happy when he got whooping cough as a teen.
I believe that vaccination is safe, and prevents many deaths each and every single day. If only more countries had the funds to provide free vax to all children (whose parents wished for them to receive them anyway)
I thought it was going thing and all babies/kids had to be vaxxed, when my eldest was born I didnt know you had a choice.
I dont regret my decision though, I just never knew you could not have your baby vaxxed, i thought you had to.
Those days? It wasnt that long ago!
dad2be- so they were NON vaxxers? Or was there NO vaccine available? Just How many years ago was this, you must know?
How old their child now and subtracting two
years should do it.
It was probably 3 years ago and there was a vaccine available. They chose not to vaccinate. Their baby was about 18mo. I'm just telling you why I vaccinate my baby and these stories stick in my head, the other one was a baby with whooping cough, swollen, on a ventilated, that later died. I guess I have the advantage of seeing the consequences that other people don't.
Because I contracted rubella when pregnant - which I was unvaxxed for (because I have a needle phobia of all things)....the amount of guilt that I felt and will always feel is immense. I decided I never want my - or anyone elses children having to go through that kind of torment.
Because I believe in herd immunity.
dad2bee - not much of an advantage having to see things like that!!
Sheer Bliss
11-07-2009, 08:32
I vax my kids to reduce the risk of them contracting a preventable disease. For us, I believe the benefits outweigh the risks.
i chose to vax from both a general population epidemiology standpoint (the more people who Vax the better for general population health) and personal reasions.
I've actually seen two babies die from prevantable diseases. Whooping cough can takes weeks to kill them. It's horrible. :no: i also have an aunt who had polio as a child and as a result her pelvis is all twisted. not only does she walk funny but she'll never beable to give brith naturally.
My baby is a very big girl for her age group and the risks the mecidal profession associate with vaxing aply more commony to tiny babies.
For me the possible negatives of vaxing outweight the benifits of keeping my little girl safe healthy and alive.
sandy cheeks
11-07-2009, 13:35
I have seen what polio can do and the vax works.
I also think vaccination is the only reason that illnesses like poilo, smallpox, TB, dipthteria and so on have all but disappeared from our society.
I believe in herd immunity it works no doubt about it in my mind.
And after researching, the benefits of vaxxing outway the risks for me and my kids.
stepmum1
11-07-2009, 14:38
because i always thought they had to be vaxxed, it was something that everyone did as i thought it was compulsary. i didnt know any different so i have just kept up the vaccines.
Above is my reason DS1 is vaxed. I didn't question anything and that is the only reason he was vaxed.
2girls&1boy
11-07-2009, 14:43
I vax my kids to reduce the risk of them contracting a preventable disease. For us, I believe the benefits outweigh the risks.
as the above person said.
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