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Why so many anti-vaxxing mums

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FirstTimeMum881 · 18/02/2025 14:03

I have a 5 month old baby and I'm going back to work at 7.5 months and planning on pumping milk at work. I was looking for tips so I joined some Facebook groups on breastfeeding and pumping and also made an account on babycenter as it had a lot of threads on the subject. OH MY GOD. They may as well rename these groups "Batshit mums against vaccines" because the content is insane. My favourite is a mum of a preemie refusing donor milk from vaccinated mothers. Lots of others paranoid their babies have autism because they had their 8 week jabs and they noticed their babies love staring at the ceiling.

I'm aware most of these women are in the US but what the hell is going on??? It's like i stepped into a parallel universe.

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Katiesaidthat · 18/02/2025 14:18

Because they haven´t seen 3 out of their 5 kids die of kid´s infectious diseases like my great grandmother did. Burying your kids from perfectly preventable diseases should cure this malaise.

toastandtwo · 18/02/2025 14:17

Don't forget that the current US Health Secretary is a vaccine sceptic. It's a much more widely taken position there than here.

See also - social media algorithms feeding Mums all sorts of parenting 'advice' from completely unqualified 'momfluencers' and the echo chambers that this creates.