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We're getting it tomorrow. I've been reading up on vaccinations, in general, for the past two years once I knew I was pregnant. Honestly, I've not found any science-based information that causes me concern about what we use now in our vaccination schedules. I have seen the doctor youtube video and I must note that it is put together by a very active anti-vaccination group. I figure people become doctors with their own various biases and desires to alter the way we all think. It is frustrating when people who are linked to science and are in a position of authority seem to turn their backs on reliable studies and proper methodology. I guess once I see four or five statements that are based on a completely falsified study (that has been revoked by the journal that published it and where all the co-authors removed their names from it), I figure the whole video is suspect.

I really get frustrated with this because we are all trying to find good information to protect our families. I don't like fear-mongering by the media re: the flu, but I really REALLY don't like socially damaging information from anti-vaccination people implying autism, terrorists, brain-explosions, conspiracy, and so on. I've not found one link yet that actually sites anything legitimate. Yet the information keeps referencing each other so it seems like there is backing.


I feel very comfortable now understanding how immunity works, how vaccinations work, and what the process is in our bodies. We can be vaccinated for items and still catch them because sometimes, for whatever reason, our body decides to not "respond" to the intruder. And since it is a non-live virus it just passes through without our body making the specified wall against it. This tends to happen about 5% of the time which is why so many of us rely on herd immunity.

There are some people who just don't make the same anti-bodies, some people who just don't make the anti-bodies for a given vaccination, and some who are too young to get the shot. In all those cases we rely on our society as a whole to keep up with vaccinations so there is no pathway into our social network for a deadly disease (like polio, etc).

This is why it was so freaky when measles started working its way up the Fraser Valley last year before some of our little beebs were too young to be vaccinated against the disease. We rely on our herd to keep the weaker ones safe.


Holy dinah, I'll stop now! I just kinda get worked up over some things ;)

Mamabeers - thank you! That is an excellent article you linked to and I am going to use that often.