Hello all,
I have a 2 month old baby boy (I'll update with a pic later that you all will like) and we just got back from the pediatrician for his 2 month check up and scheduled vaccines. When he was first born I refused the Hep B for him, as I thought the risk of him contracting Hep B were so remote that giving a newborn baby a vaccine against it was ridiculous especially for a premee. Then at our 2 week appt. the pediatrician was asking why we didn't get the Hep B, to which I explained that we were uncomfortable with vaccinating him so young. She started into a semi rant about how vaccines are perfectly safe and the guy who said they weren't has lost his license and so on. At the 1 month appt. with another doctor we discussed our apprehension with the vaccine schedule and she was curious why. I went into the adjuvants, and Hg and Al and formaldehyde and knowingly injecting these things into an infant goes against what we believe. She listens and assured us that they are safe and there have been no evidence that they cause any harm and pointed to the many photocopies of articles taped the exam room walls talking about how there is no link between vaccines and autism and how autism is genetic. "You do know that they took the mercury out a long time ago right" she said, to which I replied "I do know that that is what they say, but I've read it was just a reduction not an elimination of it". She kind chuckled and said "oh you don't believe they took it out?". She vehemently insisted that they were safe and that there is a lot of misinformation about them that is causing a decline in vaccinations and the result of which is an increase in the number of infants that she treats with all the diseases that they are to protect against. She was very nice about it but very concerned pointing to her infant patients in intensive care and some that have died from preventable diseases and so on.