Ben had his first round of vaccines Monday, and it didn’t take long for some stranger who noticed his band aids in the grocery store to inform me I had made a very controversial choice in having him vaccinated. I would rather chance the teeny possibility that he face mild to moderate reactions, and the 1 in a million chance of a severe reaction to the vaccines than face the deadly threat of the things that he is being vaccinated for.
Before the vaccines, polio averaged 37,000 paralyzed and 17,000 dead people PER YEAR. Things like Hepatitis B, Polio, Pneumococcal Disease, Diphtheria, Tetanous, Pertussis (Whooping Cough), Rotavirus, and Hib (Haemophilus influenzae b) are not to be messed with.
So, if some stranger thinks that I am being a bad mom for protecting my son from diseases that have killed thousands, so be it. I would rather be that than a mom who negligently leaves her son open to debilitating and deadly diseases I could have prevented.
source- CDC Vaccine Information Statement 42 U.S.C 300aa-26 1/30/2008