Vaccinations???

Just for my own curiosity Alianasmummy, who writes/publishes that book?

In my experience its always hard not to start a "fact war" when discussing the immunisation subject, its such a controvercial issue. I just try to remember that everyone really only tries to make the best decision for their child with the information they have.
After a lot of reading and researching, we decided not to vaccinate our children (now 11 and 7), pretty much for all the reasons already outlined in this thread - the ingredients and the fact they contain "animal bits", the lack of convincing proof that they really do work without some sort of long-term effects. I don't think I'm relying on people who do vaccinate for our children's health as I don't believe the vaccines are solely responsible for the decline in the illnesses anyway. There are so many aspects to the decision we have made and we do not regret our decision, though we have been repeatedly questioned about it. I've found though that medical professionals respect our decision once they realise that we made an informed choice not to vaccinate.

Just out of interest was Xavier born via c section? We have no allergies in either of our families but Spencer is allergic to diary, eggs and peanuts as well as some other things we think he is allergic too, like parsnips that they couldn't test for. We saw an allergy doc a couple of months ago and apparently being born by c/s increases the chance of allergies cos they aren't exposed to the right bacteria at the birth (vaginal births they ingest some of mums poo and the bacteria in that sets up there guts against allergies, he explained it far better than I ever could).

Also the relying on other people vaccinated their children comment. This could not be further from the truth, like Genie said there are lots of other reasons why the disease rate has fallen, Scarlet fever has shown the same decline as the other diseases even though it isn't immunised against, education, better nutrician and living conditions are far bigger contributors than the injections which don't give immunity anyway (they are just designed so that childrens immune system should recognise and fight off quicker, doesn't mean they won't get it). As I also said in one of my posts I want Spencer to build a natural immunity, that is contradictory to relying on other people immunising. Our philosophy is that we believe children should be exposed to and build a natural immunity, in no way what so ever are we relying on herd immunity.

I respect any parent that makes the decision to immunise their children and I would never and have never told anyone that they shouldn't, so please do not make incorrect assumption about why I haven't immunised my child.

Our allergy doc gave us a probiotic to give Spencer, lots of research has been done to show how much they can help with allergy kids, might be something to ask about in Jan if he isn't on something like that already. Spencers is just in powder form so I mix it in his porridge and he is none the wiser and as it was from the allergy doc its diary, egg free etc. Was pricey though $45 for one jar

We were quite lucky with the diary one in that he had a reaction when I weaned him onto formula at 3 1/2 months so before solids. I was paranoid about all other foods so the egg and peanuts just came up on his allergy test at 12 months, so glad I was paranoid about it. We kept him completely off soy until he was tested as well, so glad he was negative to that as it has made live a lot easier, cos if things don't have diary in they tend to have soy and it means now he can have tofu and soy yoghurt and other bits and pieces.