judgemax said:as for the vaccination debate i am all for it and i do have a problem ith people who dont vaccinate ...i would have loved to have breast fed my child to give him my antibodies but that wa snot medically possible ...and he has a sister that is two years older ..and because of mothers who did not vaccinate my daughter could not visist my son in the hospital ...causing me great greif because i had to choice which child to spend time with....people who dont vaccinate their children are not only putting their children at risk they are putting other peoples at risk....for those who dont vaccinate because of problems it might cause are giving their child the same chance either way ....hey they didnt die from the vaccine but they did because they caught polio...whooping cough ...severe chicken pocks and the fever couldnt be reduced ....hmmmmm, i wonder when it comes to parents that dont vaccinate their child if they were vaccinated themselves ,...sorry but thats one thing i feel very strongly about ...because some mother somewhere didnt vaccinate their child ....it almost caused my son his life.
If your daughter is vaccinated, I don't understand what risk someone not being vaccinated could have posed for her. Do you mean she couldn't come to the hospital because she was sick? That's just common practice. How could lack of someone else's vaccinations have cost your son's life?
Hospitals are risky places to be for those who have compromised immune systems, period. It has nothing to do with vaccinations. There are many, many viruses for which there is no vaccine, and there are many, many deadly bacteria as well...some of which are difficult to treat due to over use of antibiotics. In hospital you are exposed to a whole host of stuff that can getcha. Quite frankly, it is more risky to birth a baby in a hospital and expose that baby to all the potential viruses, bacterial infections and superbugs than it is to have a baby at home, where the bacteria is already familiar. Hospitals are also risky for mom, with all the vaginal exams, intravenous, catheters, surgery, etc...all sorts of ways for bacteria to be introduced.
Additionally, it is quite rare to not be able to breastfeed, and there are many instances where women who can't breastfeed would have had better luck/experience if there was better support within hospital, community, clinics and at home for breastfeeding. There are still far too many institutions, doctors and nurses who don't truly understand/support breastfeeding and breastmilk, and end up undermining a mother's efforts, not to mention opinionated family members, spouses and friends. For those rare cases where it isn't possible to breastfeed, women should be given access to donated, pastuerized human milk. Milk Banks do exist in North America, they are unfortunately few and far between, but they can be instrumental in giving a health-challenged infant the best chance at survival.
So, before passing the buck to all those "mothers" who don't vaccinate their kids, I'd recommend one does a little bit of reading/investigating all the health risks out there.