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Your child can not contract the disease that a child was recently vaccinated from.

Ok, but please forgive me if I don't just take your word for it.

This has to be the most insane reasoning I have ever heard! To begin with, a baby only receives antibodies from a mother if they are b___stfeeding, and they only receive those antibodies for the first three months.......not for 12 months. Second, vaccination records are required once your child is school age. Third, your child would probably be more succeptable to getting an illness from a playgroup of unvaccinated children rather than vaccinated ones. Just because someone is vaccinated doesn't mean that they can carry the illness around waiting for someone to come along who hasn't been vaccinated. Sometimes you have to do things for you children that may be painful and unpleasant for their own good! Period!! Purposely not vaccinating a child is selfish and reckless.

Okay, I can't resist responding to that last post... First off people who choose to not vaccinate are not insane...There are many reasons why people do not vaccinate their children among them: medical reasons, religious reasons, or philosophical reasons. None are wrong... Just as choosing to vaccinate is not wrong. We do what we think is best for our children, period. As for the school issue... You can't be more wrong on that... School, daycare, afterschool programs, etc...they all accept waivers for religious, philosophical (some) and medical reasons. Not many people know this.

Please do a search for "naturally aquired pa__sive immunity". This type of immunity varies for each disease your child will be immunized against, hence the immunization schedule. This is only one reason for the a schedule. Also further up in this thread it was posted that 13 states now allow for you to refuse immunization. You may also want to search for that. I would be happy to post links for you, but I find that it's better when you research and find answers for yourself. But here are few links to get you started: http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/14332_1185.asp In the middle of the page is a discussion about the possibilty of becoming infected from a recently vaccinated child. Here is another from the Centers for Disease Control : http://www.cdc.gov/nip/vaccine/varicella/faqs-clinic-vac-eligible.htm

Sorry but you are speaking specifically about the CP, and not the other diseases children are vaccinated from. FYI - "a few cases" is less of a risk than your child has if you take him out in public! Besides, there would be no way for anyone to know how those few unvaccinated children caught something as prevalent as the CP. How they traced it to a recently vaccinated child is interesting, and unbelievable. Those few unvaccinated cases could have picked up the CP anywhere. I would not consider that one sentence to be accurate as they can only state it to be "generally believed". Have you really looked into this? Do you realize the risk to your child is greater without vaccinations than with them? You are choosing the riskier scenario, but I am sure you know that. I really hope that all goes well. Best wishes to your child:)

Thanks same to you!

Interesting, I just read that Boulder, CO has the highest number of unvaccinated children. They also have a rate of pertussis many times greater than other schools, not that whooping cough is the worst thing. I wonder why there is such unity in Boulder, CO about not vaccinating? Just thought it was interesting. Again, I never meant to give any impression that I am judging. Personally, I want my child vaccinated but if you don't, the government has decided that it is your right.

Yes, it is my right as it should be. I would also like to thank you for getting your child vaccinated. Not only does this benefit my child, but you also help to ensure the continuance of my right not to subject my child to vaccination.

Are you serious? How so???

that last statement is making you sound like you feel like you are better than everyone else and as long as everyone follows protocol, you are exempt.. What makes your child 'too good' to be vaccinated??

If fewer people get their children immunized then it might actually become mandatory. Re the last post: I am sorry you feel that way. I don't feel like my child is better than yours, but I do feel I am in a better position to decide what's best for my baby. I can't make you follow protocol, you too can inform yourself and make what you feel to be the best decision for your family. I am perfectly neutral on whatever that may be.

What you say about it becoming manditory if less people opt to do it is true, for very good reason. You are vaccinating your child not only for the good of YOUR child, but for society as a whole. Would you drive drunk if you knew your child was safe at home? NO, your still endangering lives. Other than religious reasons, there are none that you can have that wouldn't apply to the rest of the free world. If the risk of autism is what is stopping you, then please continue your research, because alternatives ARE available that are thimerosol free. Unanomous support throughout the world to vaccinate against these diseases means that one day, hopefully, NO ONE will have to immuize against them, because they have been erraticated. People like you only slow the process, if not prevent it. How can you be so selfish??

To the post directly above this one: Thank You! Well said....

I agree it was very well said. My reasons for not having my child vaccinated are that I do not believe it to be in the best interest of my child. As I have stated before. The other posts are just some of the benefits, deserved or not for making this choice. I don't consider looking out for the well being of my child to be selfish. I respect your right to decide what is best for your child, please allow me to do the same without the guilt trip.

I can not believe some of the warped minds out there. I don't believe those who have chosen not to vaccinate have not slowed the process of erradication and we are not by any means selfish. Did you know that even vaccinated your child still has a 50/50 chance of getting a disease in which he/she is vaccinated? And not because he/she will contract from an unvaccinated child. Did you also know that they link SIDS to the DPT shot? Here is some info you should read: A study published in the Journal of the American Medical a__sociation found that children diagnosed with asthma (a respiratory ailment not unlike SIDS) were five times more likely to have received the pertussis vaccine, than not to have received it.(1) Another study found that babies die at a rate eight times greater than normal within three days after getting a DPT shot.(2) The three primary doses of DPT are given at two months, four months, and six months. About 85 percent of SIDS cases occur at one through six months, with the peak incidence at age two to four months. In a recent scientific study of SIDS, episodes of apnea (cessation of breathing) and hypopnea (abnormally shallow breathing) were measured before and after DPT vaccinations. "Cotwatch" (a precise breathing monitor) was used, and the computer printouts it generated (in integrals of the weighted apnea-hypopnea density -- WAHD) were a___lyzed. The data clearly shows that vaccination caused an extraordinary increase in episodes where breathing either nearly ceased or stopped completely. These episodes continued for months following vaccinations. Dr. Viera Scheibner, the author of the study, concluded that "vaccination is the single most prevalent and most preventable cause of infant deaths."(3) And it doesn't stop there. So, you see us parents that have done our research are not selfish. We have done our research and have made an educated decision. Personally, pertussis is the least of my worries. I have no intentions on taking a newborn out to public places. Therefore, I am not worried about my baby getting pertussis. I plan to do as I did with my first child.