wait till Nataliachick7 see's this. she will love this!!!

I said it's a requirement for health. It is terrible to see them in pain and cry because of a needle, but .I would rather have them be in pain for a minute than be close to death or sick for months/years from an illness .I could prevent. I do think it should be a personal choice and nobody should be shunned for choosing to not immunize their children.

My father had polio as a child and was terribly sick. He has a lot of problems with his legs to this day. They are very skinny and fraile.
My mother had the mumps and she remembers the pain and feeling of over all death she felt.

Chicken pox? I had my daugher immunized for it, but only because she was 14 and had not had them yet, and .I was afraid of her getting them as an adult and being extremely ill from them. I had them when .I was 4 and was fine.

I have not given my son the Hepatitis shots as of yet. I am choosing to wait until he's a bit older.
I am also going to wait to give him his .M.M.R until he is getting ready to start school. I keep hearing it's linked to .Autism.
My son, my choice, my opinions.

people who say its dangerous can kiss my @ss...every single person i know has had them including my parents , aunts , cousins all my friends basically everyone and none of us have serious problems with the meds corresponding to the vaccines.....my grandfather back in the 20's wasnt vaccinated and had polio in his leg and was a cripple all his life...if only he had been vaccinated he wouldnt had such a difficult life... vaccines are essential and vital...

repeated scientific studies have found no link between autism and vaccines.

they recently aired a show on npr that i found very interesting. you can listen to it here-

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p hp?storyId=11070884

edit: i forgot to post my opinion!

i am all for vaccines. i did my research before my baby was born and decided i'd rather be safe than sorry (though i'm sure that's the same phrase that non-vaxers use). if something happened to my son, and i could've prevented it but chose not to, i couldn't live with myself.

I hear that there is no link and then .I hear there is. We had this gentleman working for us that had a perfectly normal son (whatever perfectly normal means these days) who was talking and meeting all milestones. He had his immunizations and has never spoken a word since. Could be coincidence, may not be.
I'm much more neurotic these days, and .I work with adults with developmental disabilities so if there is a way .I can prevent, .I'm going to try.
I would never try to pass my views/opinions on to others though, and .I do plan on having the MMR done, just not now.