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Why did you not vaccinated you're baby/child

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Clocloxx · 20/10/2024 19:52

Just that really, parents who choose not to vaccinated their children what made you decide? How are you're kids now do they get sick often ? Any allergies?
I don't want this turning into a debate of why you should vaccinated you're child I'm simply asking parents why they choose not too? So if you can't respect people's decisions not to vaccinated please don't answer on this thread

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Candaceowens · 20/10/2024 20:39

PepaWepa · 20/10/2024 20:36

Funnily enough, my child is the only child I've ever known to have never had a sickness and diarrhea bug. Ever.

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Funny that, me neither. My DH catches everything and I am never sick. Guess which one of us was vaccinated.

MathsMum3 · 20/10/2024 20:39

I always lol when I hear the phrase "I did my own research and made the informed decision not to vaccinate". What makes anyone think that their "research" trumps the years and years of knowledge and expertise accumulated by hundreds of medical professionals and biomedical scientists?

Raindancer432 · 20/10/2024 20:38

People vaccinated their kids because they remembered or their parents remembered the horrors of kids dying from the likes of polio, smallpox, hepatitis, measles, diphtheria etc etc. Horrid illnesses and people were grateful when the vaccine for them came out and there was a time where these conditions had nearly vanished. Those that couldn't be vaccinated due to actual medical reasons were protected by herd immunity.
Now there's all this BS about conspiracies/fake news that others state as 'research'. Unfortunately, it won't be long before the diseases increase to epidemic levels and kids start dying again. Not that it seems far off that sometimes.

No child should have to suffer or die from any of those diseases that we have vaccinations for. It's cruel and I can't believe any parent would go against decades of evidence of kids being saved just because of some of the rubbish they 'research'.

PepaWepa · 20/10/2024 20:37

leopardski · 20/10/2024 20:36

Your comment was deleted because you told someone to eff off 🙄

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Because her comment was absolutely sickening

leopardski · 20/10/2024 20:36

PepaWepa · 20/10/2024 20:34

Wow. My comment has been deleted.

I repeat. It was on the NHS Website and confirmed by the nurse that the rotavirus vaccine was sending babies to hospital for surgery for twisted bowels.

Absolute disgrace to delete my comment.

Your comment was deleted because you told someone to eff off 🙄

PepaWepa · 20/10/2024 20:36

VivaVivaa · 20/10/2024 20:35

The risk of intussusception from rotavirus vaccine is estimated to be between 1 in 50,000 and 1 in 100,000 (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/rotavirus/about-intussusception.html). Your baby is much more likely to die from severe diarrhoea than vaccine induced bowel injury.

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Funnily enough, my child is the only child I've ever known to have never had a sickness and diarrhea bug. Ever.

VivaVivaa · 20/10/2024 20:35

PepaWepa · 20/10/2024 20:34

Wow. My comment has been deleted.

I repeat. It was on the NHS Website and confirmed by the nurse that the rotavirus vaccine was sending babies to hospital for surgery for twisted bowels.

Absolute disgrace to delete my comment.

The risk of intussusception from rotavirus vaccine is estimated to be between 1 in 50,000 and 1 in 100,000 (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/rotavirus/about-intussusception.html). Your baby is much more likely to die from severe diarrhoea than vaccine induced bowel injury.

PepaWepa · 20/10/2024 20:35

Amanitacae · 20/10/2024 20:33

Not sure how far my attempts to get you to engage your two brain cells will go, but let’s try…

No - I’m saying that if babies everywhere were dying from rotavirus you’d have grabbed the chance of the vaccine, but you didn’t have to do that, because so many other babies have had the vaccine, which is what kept yours safe.

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No, I wouldn't. I wasn't putting my child at direct risk of that.

PepaWepa · 20/10/2024 20:34

Wow. My comment has been deleted.

I repeat. It was on the NHS Website and confirmed by the nurse that the rotavirus vaccine was sending babies to hospital for surgery for twisted bowels.

Absolute disgrace to delete my comment.

Amanitacae · 20/10/2024 20:33

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Not sure how far my attempts to get you to engage your two brain cells will go, but let’s try…

No - I’m saying that if babies everywhere were dying from rotavirus you’d have grabbed the chance of the vaccine, but you didn’t have to do that, because so many other babies have had the vaccine, which is what kept yours safe.

PepaWepa · 20/10/2024 20:32

Candaceowens · 20/10/2024 20:31

That's exactly what they're saying, it's what they all say. If you don't choose to put your own child at risk then they'll call you selfish, and worse. Happy to be called selfish for the sake of the health of my child.

They have all these stupid arguments about people not doing their own research but I guarantee you did far more in coming to the decision not to have it, thank any of them did in choosing to have it.

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Completely agree.

Candaceowens · 20/10/2024 20:31

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That's exactly what they're saying, it's what they all say. If you don't choose to put your own child at risk then they'll call you selfish, and worse. Happy to be called selfish for the sake of the health of my child.

They have all these stupid arguments about people not doing their own research but I guarantee you did far more in coming to the decision not to have it, thank any of them did in choosing to have it.

PepaWepa · 20/10/2024 20:29

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Amanitacae · 20/10/2024 20:28

PepaWepa · 20/10/2024 20:23

Tbh, not necessarily. I researched, and upon doing so, found that the rotavirus vaccine had been pulled twice (at that point, 7 years ago) due to babies being admitted into hospital with twisted bowels. This was on the NHS website if you clicked far enough into it, and confirmed by the nurse admitting the vaccine. So my DD did not have the rotavirus vaccine. I don't think many people are aware of that.

The rest of the vaccines were given, albeit delayed.

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Thank’s to all of those other babies who did have the rotavirus vaccine allowing your child to stay healthy from what can be a killer bug for tiny people then eh?

Candaceowens · 20/10/2024 20:27

MrsTerryPratchett · 20/10/2024 20:22

Haha, so funny, so original.

That's a 'no' to actual research, then?

That's a no to your oh so clever comment about publishing.

You making out that only thick people who believe what they read on Google or heard down the pub wouldn't vaccinate is far, far from the truth. But you're so well educated so you know best.

PepaWepa · 20/10/2024 20:23

DownWhichOfLate · 20/10/2024 20:05

Conspiracy theories, innit? People saying they did “their own research”, which would consist of them googling what they want to find to back up their paranoia, rather than actual clinical research. Or their mate told them. Bonkers.

Tbh, not necessarily. I researched, and upon doing so, found that the rotavirus vaccine had been pulled twice (at that point, 7 years ago) due to babies being admitted into hospital with twisted bowels. This was on the NHS website if you clicked far enough into it, and confirmed by the nurse admitting the vaccine. So my DD did not have the rotavirus vaccine. I don't think many people are aware of that.

The rest of the vaccines were given, albeit delayed.

MrsTerryPratchett · 20/10/2024 20:22

Haha, so funny, so original.

That's a 'no' to actual research, then?

Candaceowens · 20/10/2024 20:22

DownWhichOfLate · 20/10/2024 20:18

@Candaceowens - no? So you did your own clinical research for years? Published it? Do let us read, please, I can’t find any legitimate papers denouncing childhood vaccinations.

Haha, so funny, so original.

StrawberryWater · 20/10/2024 20:21

Candaceowens · 20/10/2024 20:16

This certainly wasn't the case for me.

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I'd like to see this research.

Is it peer reviewed?

DownWhichOfLate · 20/10/2024 20:18

@Candaceowens - no? So you did your own clinical research for years? Published it? Do let us read, please, I can’t find any legitimate papers denouncing childhood vaccinations.

Candaceowens · 20/10/2024 20:16

DownWhichOfLate · 20/10/2024 20:05

Conspiracy theories, innit? People saying they did “their own research”, which would consist of them googling what they want to find to back up their paranoia, rather than actual clinical research. Or their mate told them. Bonkers.

This certainly wasn't the case for me.

Amanitacae · 20/10/2024 20:15

MrsTerryPratchett · 20/10/2024 20:09

Smallpox roulette?

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And a bit of polio pontoon

HÆLTHEPAIN · 20/10/2024 20:13

DownWhichOfLate · 20/10/2024 20:05

Conspiracy theories, innit? People saying they did “their own research”, which would consist of them googling what they want to find to back up their paranoia, rather than actual clinical research. Or their mate told them. Bonkers.

Yep, confirmation bias!

And for me it was because I didn’t want them to be ill with potentially life changing diseases.

MrsTerryPratchett · 20/10/2024 20:09

Amanitacae · 20/10/2024 20:07

I like to gamble

Smallpox roulette?

Amanitacae · 20/10/2024 20:07

I like to gamble