"Not vaccinating the child is irresponsible"
Once I was very uncertain for a short time. When my daughter, as a baby, got the first of the four six-fold vaccinations against whooping cough, tetanus, diphtheria, polio, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae, she did not feel very well afterwards. She spit, was restless and slept very badly.
I went with her to the homeopath to have a Impfausleitung be done, so to let the vaccination consequences. But then I brought myself back to the bottom of the facts: She was uneasy at the age anyway, and such small children are not likely to sleep "like a baby". All in all, she has tolerated the vaccine so well - and all the following too.
To be honest, it is a mystery to me that with my commitment to being vaccinated I still encounter so much indignation with other mothers. Not in my close circle of friends, these are all vaccination advocates. But I experience it again and again that the conversation with distant acquaintances on vaccination comes - still one of the perennial excitement issues among mothers, such as non-breastfeeding or wish-caesarean section - and a mother accuses me, my child to suspend uncontrollable risks.
All I can say is that I consider the risk of vaccine damage to be far less than the risk that my child may become infected with one of the eradicated diseases in the event of non-vaccination.
I find parents who do not bring their children to standard vaccinations simply irresponsible. Not just to her own child, but to all the children she can infect - especially at a very young age, before the vaccinations are over. I say so openly so, and I have been dealt with it already violent.
"We have every opportunity and afford the luxury of rejecting them"
People: We are fortunate enough to live in a Western country in the 21st century, where the best medical care is served on a silver platter. I do not want to think about how to reject something as basic as vaccination. In many countries around the world, parents lack access to vaccines, and we have every opportunity and the luxury of rejecting them?
I started traveling with my daughter early, especially to Asian countries. I want to be sure that it is protected against as much as possible, both domestically and abroad. Travelers traveling to Asia are advised to also be vaccinated against hepatitis A, which is not one of the standard vaccinations in Germany. Of course, I had my daughter do it, and I do not regret it.
The fact that I endorse vaccination does not mean that I always want chemistry. I am quite the mother, who lays earwheels on the ear first on an ear. Or the child can flush the nose with saline solution in case of runny nose. I am always open to home remedies and only take a drug myself if it can not be avoided. But we are talking about harmless illnesses.
I can separate this: Where it goes with a home remedy or maybe even without everything - often already a day in bed with a scarf around the neck is enough -, I am very happy to be ready. But I am not prepared to play my part as a critical consumer and to withhold my child's protection from danger for the sake of an attitude. But I'm afraid that some mothers of their own ideology sit up, and the children have to pay it.
Even though I'm more of the guy who says: Every mommy should do it the way that suits her and her family - I have no counter-arguments on this subject. Even if I get a beating for it.
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