I'm beginning to feel very moderate. My kids are partially vaccinated. We've been in school and are now out but still have one in preschool three mornings. I've had two babies at home and two in hossie. It's like I rebel a bit but don't go the whole hog! Well, the hospital births were transferred homebirths so maybe that doesn't count. One was for a breech though, and I know some people would have stayed at home (and he did just pop out then hospital was awful so maybe that would have been a good plan, except that he came so fast then didn't breathe and midwives often take their time getting to you so that would have been a bit scary).
Or maybe I just carve out an individual path that's uniquely right for us.
This was brought on by an American telling me that vaccinations were singlehandedly responsible for women no longer having a life expectancy of only 50, and lots of children dying before they're five. She made it sound like unvaccinated people are walking hotbeds of germs, dangerous to be around. It occured to me that in her eye's I'm a dangerous extremist! But I know of places where I could say 'my kids have had some vaccinations' and be shouted down as a terrible parent for letting them have them.
I would like my decisions to be respected, and if other people choose a different path, I'll respect that too. Most of my really good friends totally get that.
