My daughter had a reaction to HIB or Pneumococcal at age 7 months. She had what I would call a "change in affect". She was smiling, babbling and engaged before those shots and for 48 hours after she would not smile, she did not babble, she stared off into space.
She is now 15 and I have been researching vaccines for the last 16 years. I would encourage you to research vaccines just as thoroughly as you would anything else. If you are unsure, research until you are sure. Do not make a decision until you can do so with confidence.
You can always get a vaccine later but you can never take it back. There are a few things you should know to start:
1. The FDA says a person can handle 4-5 micrograms of aluminum per kilo of body weight per day. A 12 lb baby can handle about 27 micrograms of aluminum.
The CDC's schedule for a 2-month old gives 30x the FDA's safety limit. "Research indicates that patients with impaired kidney function, including premature neonates, who receive parenteral levels of aluminum at greater than 4 to 5mcg/kg/day accumulate aluminum at levels…
associated with central nervous system and bone toxicity. Tissue loading may occur at even lower rates of administration."
See also the Institute of Medicine’s report: “Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality” (2012). nap.nationalacademies.org/download/13164
Notice that the phrase “inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship” occurs more than 150 times.
2. The vaccines have all been tested individually. The schedule has never been tested in combination.The schedule, as a whole, is untested. We don't know the results of giving 8 different antigens (viruses and bacteria) at once bc we don't have a vac vs unv study of the schedule.
"Thus, key elements of the entire schedule—the number, frequency, timing, order, and age at administration of vaccines—have not been systematically examined in research studies." nap.edu/read/13563/cha…
3. In the US, if you or your child are harmed by vaccines you cannot sue the manufacturer. You can file a claim with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program for $400 and hope to prove that the injury was caused by the vaccine.
This is a very challenging thing to do yet, to date, the program has paid out more than 4 Billion dollars in claims.
"The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is a no-fault alternative to the traditional legal system for resolving vaccine injury petitions.”
It was created in the 1980s, after lawsuits against vaccine companies and health care providers threatened to cause vaccine shortages and reduce U.S. vaccination rates, which could have caused a resurgence of vaccine preventable diseases.
Any individual, of any age, who received a covered vaccine and believes he or she was injured as a result, can file a petition. Parents, legal guardians and legal representatives can file on behalf of children, disabled adults, and individuals who are deceased."
4. Most importantly, every vaccine is the same but every child is different. We know so little about our genetic differences. We know most autistics have an MTHFR mutation. Find out if your baby has this mutation or others that might predispose him/her to an adverse reaction.
I now know my daughter does have an MTHFR mutation. It's quite common.
5. Every vaccine package insert (immunize.org) has a section, 13.1, which says essentially "this vaccine has not been tested for teratogenic or mutagenic effects".
So the vaccine has not been tested to see if it will cause cancer but the ingredients have. We know formaldehyde is carcinogenic. We know polysorbate 80 is carcinogenic. We know aluminum is a neurotoxin.
There are four exceptions. Anthrax, Smallpox, Pneumovax23 and Varicella.
There is no section 13 in these package inserts (PI). The PIs jump from 12 to 14. Where did section 13 go? If the PI doesn't explicitly say the vaccine hasn't been tested for carcinogenic effects is it because it HAS been tested? Where are the results; why aren't they disclosed?
The CDC was developing an electronic support system to go along with VAERS. They developed criteria for defining an AE and would then monitor patients…
who received a V for 30 days for any possible AEs.
The study found "an average of 1.3 events per clinician, per month."
The AE data was presented at the 2009 AMIA (American Medical Informatics Conference) conference.
This is important because it PROVES leaders in the informatics field knew this was an issue, and not a small one.
After these results, the project was abandoned by the CDC.