anyone here also not vaccinate thier kids?
My kids are unvaccinated. It seemed crazy to have a an undrugged vaginal homebirth, breastfeed them full term, avoid chemicals in the house, feed them organic food, dress them in nautral fibers... then inject them with toxins just to avoid childhood diseases - none of which concern me in the least.
They are all ridiculously healthy. They have all had chicken pox and german measles, the eldest has had mumps and whooping cough that I know of and none of them were particularly sick through any of them.
I have done more research than anybody I know in real life and my study backed up my gut instinct not to vaccinate.
A few of my friends who also don't vaccinate have adult children who have been required to have vaccinations for employment purposes. Instead of just accepting the vaccines they have first had blood work done to check if they have any immunity. In all three cases the children were found to have immunity to all the common chlidhood diseases - so apparently they did contract those diseases without ever having symptoms strong enough for their parents to realise what they were ill with but they still acquired lifelong immunity. This has made me very curious as to what illnesses my children might have had without my knowledge. They always get mild symptoms with any illness and recover double time with my home treatments although my youngest does tend to get high fevers with viruses. I only take them to a doctor to treat physical injuries - broken bones, burns, splinters, cuts requiring stitches etc. and they heal remarkably quickly from those events, too.
I'm 48 this year. When I was a child there were no vaccinations for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, flu and heaps of the other common childhood diseases. We all got them all. Measles would go around the school and the street, we'd get mildly sick and then get better. Some of the babies who didn't catch it the first round would inevitably get it the next round. All of us, being well fed healthy kids with strong immune systems just needed rest to recouperate and we were done. This was the same with all of the diseases I've mentioned above. Nobody panicked over them. The only people I have ever met with polio paralysis (one school friend, one friend's mother and a person I worked with) got sick from the vaccine not the natural virus.
It's a personal choice but it's interesting that most people who vaccinate don't do any serious research and in fact put more thought/time/energy in to researching what car to buy than whether or not to vaccinate their kids.
) I think it is amazing, and what a beautiful thing to do for your baby 
