InformedDecisions...
There are many decisions parents must make in their daily lives regarding how they choose to raise their children. Many parents do not even know they not only CAN choose an alternate vaccination schedule, or not forgo vaccinations entirely, and they can do it legally.
For more information, please see Peter and Hilary Butler's book Just A Little Prick. This book is one of the primary sources of these pages along with information from the Mayo Clinic (I find it to be less propagandized than other vaccine related pages).
I'm adding the pages for the links below daily, please check back often. (Until the page is loaded, the link will show an error page. As pages are loaded you will see the page rather than the error.)
Diseases...
Below you will find a list of the diseases that vaccines are meant to prevent. On each page is a description of that disease, the symptoms and potential complications as well as a list of the vaccines available with links to the drug insert sheets for each vaccine. The drug sheets include information such as ingredients, how the drug was tested, side effects and contraindications (people who should NOT recieve the vaccine). PLEASE investigate each one before deciding whether that particular vaccine is right for your child. Weigh the risks of the disease against the risks of the vaccine. You can treat the disease, you can't take back a vaccine once its been given.
- Pertussis
- Diphtheria
- Tetanus
- Measles
- Mumps
- Rubella
- Influenza
- Hepatitis B
- Meningitis
- Polio
- Chicken Pox
- HPV
- Pneumococcal
- HIB
- Hepatitis A
- Rotavirus
Exemptions
Many parents, administrators, nurses and even physicians are at best unaware (at worst are outright lieing) that there is at least one type of exemption in all 50 states (and for military dependants, even stationed overseas).
Fourty-eight states also have religious exemptions and eighteen states allow for philosophical (Mississippi is currently trying to pass legislation to allow for philosophical which would leave only West Virginia as the only state with a medical exemption as the only option).
Choice
There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
~Denis Waitley
Melissa
Melissa is a 35 year old Army wife to her deployed husband, and the mother of three girls. Two are toddlers and the third is a teen, lending to her bouts of insanty. Melissa and her husband Tom are still deciding whether or not they will have "one more" while Melissa tries to figure out how to convince Tom that homebirth is a good thing.
