So while I am not 100% sure that Austin has swine flu, I am about 99% sure he does. <\/p>\n
And it is times like these when being a parent is hard. Because I am not one to buy into all of the hype, and up until a couple days ago, swore none of my kids would get the vaccine. <\/p>\n
I am not pro vaccines, nor am I anti-vaccines. I am kinda in between. I believe in delaying them, not bombarding little systems. My pediatrician told me that they give so many so early ONLY because they are afraid parents won’t come back after that. So they dump them on the kiddos all at once. Instead of spreading them out. I try to spread them out. <\/p>\n
I know some of the diseases are minor, I had measles, mumps, and chicken pox. I have the scars to prove it on the last one. I have vaccinated my kids for all three. I have an aunt with polio. It isn’t a pretty disease. <\/p>\n
I loathe the idea that people don’t get their kids vaccinated because they are banking on the fact that the rest of us will (no flames, I know not all feel this way- but really, if none of us did it…)<\/p>\n
I hate the idea of putting toxins in my kids bodies. But I hate the idea of them dieing even more.<\/p>\n
I used to be so anti medications, completely natural for me. But then I had a kid that needed a pretty serious medication in order to live<\/em> for his first year. That changed my view a little bit.<\/p>\n I used to only practice extended breastfeeding, baby-wearing, co-sleeping, blah blah blah. Now I bottlefeed, use a stroller, and my baby sleeps in a crib. Nothing wrong with either system. All kids are happy. It’s funny, talking to a friend at the gym yesterday about how having the nursing thing taken out of my hands, well I am now much more excepting of others choices. And don’t get me wrong, I carry Eva all the time, she has a sling, a baby bjorn. But I also use the stroller. Because I have 4 kids. She used to sleep in our room in a co-sleeper. Until she started talking all night and keeping us up. I couldn’t sleep and I was grumpy all the time. Now she chats herself back to sleep in her own room. And if she cries, we go get her. <\/p>\n So where was I going with all this?<\/p>\n Oh yeah, swine flu<\/p>\n It freaks me out a little. If all of my kids could get it and have it be like Austin- no question. But would they? I don’t know.<\/p>\n Eva is high risk because she was a preemie. She will be 6 months next week and eligible for the vaccine. I am on the fence.<\/p>\n Reading about a mom who is on a photog forum that I read, just lost her 4 year old. I get scared. Another mom said it ripped through her house and out of the 5 people that got it, two ended up with no secondary infections, 2 got ear infections, and one got pneumonia (her). She said that the shocking thing was how fast she took a turn for the worst. I think that is the scary part.<\/p>\n I have read both sides of the issue with the vaccine, and I am still on the fence.<\/p>\n In the meantime, I am dosing everyone with Vitamin D<\/a>– which I could do another whole post on why you shouldn’t wear sunscreen<\/a> but I won’t go there today. And I don’t mean if you are at the beach all day long (because I will then put it on me and my kids). <\/p>\n You can read about vitamin d on these sites<\/p>\n dr. mercola<\/a> So while I am not 100% sure that Austin has swine flu, I am about 99% sure he does. And it is times like these when being a parent is hard. Because I am not one to buy into all of the hype, and up until a couple days ago, swore none of my kids would get the vaccine. I am not pro vaccines, nor am I anti-vaccines. I am kinda in between. I believe in delaying them, not bombarding little systems. My pediatrician told me that they give so many so early ONLY because they are afraid parents won’t come back after that. So they dump them on the kiddos all at once. Instead of spreading them out. I try to spread them out. I know some of the diseases are minor, I had measles, mumps, and chicken pox. I have the scars to prove it on the last one. I have vaccinated my kids for all three. I have an aunt with polio. It isn’t a pretty disease. I loathe the idea that people don’t get their kids vaccinated because they are banking on the fact that the rest of us will (no flames, I know not all feel this way- but really, if none of us did it…) I hate the idea of putting toxins in my kids bodies. But I hate the idea of them dieing even more. I used to be so anti medications, completely natural for me. But then I had a kid that needed a pretty serious medication in order to live for his first year. That changed my view a little bit. I used to only practice extended breastfeeding, baby-wearing, co-sleeping, blah blah blah. Now I bottlefeed, use a stroller, and my baby sleeps in a crib. Nothing wrong with either system. All kids are happy. It’s funny, talking to a friend at the gym yesterday about how having the nursing thing taken out of my hands, well I am now much more excepting of others choices. And don’t get me wrong, I carry Eva all the time, she has a sling, a baby bjorn. But I also use the stroller. Because I have 4 kids. She used to sleep in our room in a co-sleeper. Until she started talking all night and keeping us up. I couldn’t sleep and I was grumpy all the time. Now she chats herself back to sleep in her own room. And if she cries, we go get her. So where was I going with all this? Oh yeah, swine flu It freaks me out a little. If all of my kids could get it and have it be like Austin- no question. But would they? I don’t know. Eva is high risk because she was a preemie. She will be 6 months next week and eligible for the vaccine. I am on the fence. Reading about a mom who is on a photog forum that I read, just lost her 4 year old. I get scared. Another mom said it ripped through her house and out of the 5 people that got it, two ended up with no secondary infections, 2 got ear infections, and one got pneumonia (her). She said that the shocking thing was how fast she took a turn for the worst. I think that is the scary part. I have read both sides of the issue with the vaccine, and I am still on the fence. In the meantime, I am dosing everyone with Vitamin D– which I could do another whole post on why you shouldn’t wear sunscreen but I won’t go there today. And I don’t mean if you are at the beach all day long (because I will then put it on me and my kids). You can read about vitamin d on these sites dr. mercola dr. weil and natural news.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[332,687],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-h1n1","tag-vitamin-d"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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