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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
My doctor recommended to us (not that we asked, he suggested) spacing out immunizations for my son. We thought it odd since the same doctor didn't for our daughter, but the reason he gave was specific to my son. My son is a red-head, and in his experience they are more sensitive to the shots in general. He wasn't pandering or a moron, just being a good doctor.
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I bite my tongue hard because for 37 years I was the guy that would get pissed off when someone would say "Well you really wouldn't understand unless you have kids". And I still agree parents hide behind this excuse for a
lot of things. However I think a few of the posters on here without kids are clearly ignoring what we are saying and creating their own narrative just because they think we are overprotective parents...
1) I never once said we skipped the measles, polio, or whooping cough vaccine. There are about 10 different vaccines given and some of them are for non-life threatening diseases that the doctors say don't have to all be given at once.
2) Never did I say I was scared of autism because of Jenny McCarthy etc and also never said I wasn't giving all of the vaccines available. I just wasn't giving my overractive 6 month old 3 shots and a drink at the same time when you could delay a couple of them to (oh dear lord) 9 months or 1 year. (Of course it is easier to generalize that I am scared of my kid getting a shot from the guy who takes insane stances on the racial topics and then says I can't understand because I am a white guy)
I can be an atheist, fully believe in science, and still choose to delay a vaccine because taking 4 doses at age 3 months makes my child completely miserable? I realize that is a complex situation that maybe doesn't meet the criteria of science vs creationism or global warming vs religion. (sarcasm intended on the complex part)