The Baby Dust Diaries

This vaccine has only been on my peripheral radar because they aren’t trying to shoot up my infant with it (yet).  But, I do have friends and family with young daughters approaching the age where their doctor may insist they need this poison.
Reasons NOT to get the Gardasil vaccine for your daughter:

It is NOT the most effective [...]

Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases and chairman of the department of preventive medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine said recently to ABC News:  ”The problem isn’t with vaccine safety, because they’ve been exonerated from all the implications of autism and all the other illnesses associated with vaccines.”
To channel Jim Carey as [...]

The US Court ruled [July 2008] in favour of this little boy Benjamin Zeller that as a result of the MMR vaccination received on 17 November 2004, Benjamin, suffered persistent, intractable seizures, encephalopathy, and developmental delay. 
“The Court found, as a matter of fact, that Benjamin would not have experienced the seizure disorder and acute encephalopathy or the marked deterioration [...]

I realized I never explained that you can get exemptions for “mandatory” vaccinations for your kids.  All 50 states have some exemption.  Exemptions fall into 3 categories:
Medical – requires doctor exemption based on health.  For example if you are allergic to an ingredient in a vaccine.
Philosophical – any personally held beliefs.
Religious – any religious beliefs. [...]

I was at the midwife’s yesterday (down 2 more lbs.!) and they have a TV looping CNN Health features.  It is nice to have some entertainment in the waiting room but yesterday there was a huge segment about the Flu Vaccine.  A few months ago this wouldn’t have phased me.  I had never had a [...]

In my previous posts on vaccinations I covered my concerns with Hep B, polio and to a smaller extent MMR.  In general I believe the following illnesses to be normal parts of childhood that actually improve immune health when acquired naturally and that vaccination is pushing the diseases to older populations (see discussion on chicken pox).

Measles
Mumps
Rubella
Pertussis [...]

My past vaccine posts have been long (sorry) and time consuming for me because I try to have references and data.  For this one, I want to just appeal to your basic logic.  That doesn’t mean that there aren’t numbers and research behind this one too…look it up!
Hepatitis B is the first vaccination the CDC [...]

“If you get polio you will be paralyzed.”
Someone said this to me tonight.  This isn’t an ignorant person and they weren’t trying to convince me that this statement is true.  As with most people we have been convinced of 2 things:  (1) that polio was miraculously cured by a vaccine, and (2) before the vaccine, [...]

The butterfly effect is part of chaos theory that postulates that in complex systems the smallest variation can have profound effects.  It gets its name from the philosophical example that “a butterfly flaps its wing in the Amazon and there is a tornado in Kansas.”  It is about unintended consequences.
Let’s look at an example of [...]