@chelle very sorry for your loss, that must have been horrific for you. If it’s not too difficult to talk about, as you have brought this up during the topic of vaccines, did a doctor give the the flu jab as the reason why your baby died immediately following it? How far along were you, because I don’t think you’ve mentioned it in your post? Looking at your post history on other threads, it suggests you had a missed miscarriage? I may have misunderstood your previous posts though. Apologies for the grilling but at this is a thread of primarily (but not only) anxious first time mums, I think if you come in to a discussion about vaccines saying that a flu jab killed your baby, there needs to be a greater level of detail given - I know when I read that it made my heart skip a beat and feel quite sick, as it’s obviously a truly horrific thing to go through.
My honest belief is that the anti-vaccine movement is toxic and spreads dangerous information by people who believe they’ve done more ‘research’ (using Google, presumably?) than people who have undergone actual medical training. Previously eradicated diseases have now been reintroduced into society because of the anti vaccine movement. That means people who medically cannot have vaccinations are more likely to catch the disease and die because herd immunity doesn’t exist anymore. It means that my baby is more likely to catch something like whooping cough when he’s tiny because some people have read something on Facebook that says they shouldn’t have the jab. There’s a reason why the mainstream information given is pro vaccine, and it’s the same reason why all the mainstream information is that climate change is real - because it’s true. Some people will have a bad reaction to vaccines, just like some people will have a bad reaction to painkillers and food. We are literally going backwards as a society because of this BS.
It’s hard for me to write all this because my OCD makes me think ‘now you’ve said this, you’re going to get the jab and then the baby will die’ but it needs saying, I can’t be complicit to false information being spread by saying I respect everyone’s choice just for the sake of avoiding making the thread awkward. Maybe my emotions are heightened at the minute, but since others feel comfortable enough sharing their opinions, this is mine.