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Every time vaccines comes up at the pediatrician, the air completely sucks out of the room in the silence between saying which shots are recommended and us saying yes, we'd like them all please

I’ve had this experience so many times. I’m like “No, you don’t understand, I’m the vaccine ENJOYER”

We had the same experience with our kids.. very disappointing but not surprising that doctors feel the need to walk on eggshells when talking about vaccination

It makes people uncomfortable but since I have twins people often bring up that they’re born early or which was born first etc , my go to line about child birth is like “Thank god no one died when my lads were born, if you can make it through all of that and no one is dead then you’re doing great”

I surprised the hell out of our pediatrician by asking if my kid could get her measles vax EARLY (there was an outbreak in our area). He advised against it because it hadn't been tested on that age group but he said it was the first time he'd ever gotten THAT request about a vaccine!

Spoke to the vaccine nurse at a parent event recently because my kid is terrified of needles. The way she relaxed when she realised I wanted help getting *more* jabs in him. It's grim out there. (She was also great and genuinely helpful.)

“…and that’s why we want it”

same lesson, psych nursing

Yeah I get this all the time whenever the kids are due, and I always try to be like "yeah, totally, of course" right away to save them the stress

Right? Who wants to be sick? Who wants to watch kids stuck at home sniffling and coughing and whatever? It’s unnecessary suffering even if it isn’t life threatening! And it’s inconvenient!

When my kids were born they routinely gave them the Vit K jab after birth and after my first child was born they gave me a jab to protect future children against my RhNeg blood and a rubella jab because I wasn’t immune. They explained what they were doing but there was no expectation I would refuse!

SAME. imagining the current fucko in charge during COVID is pure nightmare fuel

I feel bad for the baby but I hope the parents suffer from what they did for perpetuity. A preventable death should be punishable under the law, but instead an abortion is.

I got a dog and the foster person warned me about vets; "they like to push the medicines, but they contain a lot of toxins". So I'm kinda thinking of just preemptively getting the rabies vaccine before it comes back the way measles is.

I'm here to tell you, way more than you think!

All of them, just not with that particular insanity.

my dude just wait till several schools in your area get closed for 2 weeks due to a whooping cough outbreak and then they still double down on that shit

But I think this horseshit is spreading as a quasi-religious belief in evangelical circles and it's very hard to disentangle it from people's other religious beliefs, especially when they don't have personal connections with anyone who knows better.

Our kiddo was born in 2014. The dod did the same thing then, stealed herself to give us the spiel- it was only when we said "its ok, we believe in science" that she relaxed and we had an adult conversation about the vaccination schedule. Boulder County, Colorado.

SAME

Had a similar thing with our oldest when we first met with the pediatrician where we asked about vaccines and he tensed up and took a deep breath and basically said if we weren’t vaccinating he couldn’t be our pediatrician and we said “good” and you could just watch the tension drain out of him

Fortunately, not getting tetanus kinda sells itself.

Sorry you had to experience that

🤬

I feel for them. I preface every question at the pediatrician l’s office with “I promise I’m not one of those crazy anti-vax people who thinks they know better than doctors.” Like, I almost certainly overcompensate and they may still think I’m crazy but in a different way.

My oldest son married a woman 10 years older than himself who already had two kids by two dads, one of them deaf at 9 months old though she hadn’t noticed. So it was clear they needed a grown up to help. Luckily our other sons married well. 😊

Our kids pediatrician has newspaper clippings in every room debunking of Wakefield et al. Early on we pointed to them and said hell yeah

there is nothing that my staff can say to me to set my teeth on edge more than "the parents want to discuss vaccines"

It do be like this

I basically say "I know YOU can't say anything and I get it so imma just do it on principle and be your id because SOMEONE HAS TO"

Have had the same sort of thing a couple times now with various doctors regarding my kid.

I nearly lost my second from RSV as a newborn - I was thrilled when I saw the nasal RSV vaccine under research! With autoimmune conditions I and my children have had to be careful not to space vaccines too close together, but by gum I will always be 100% vaccine!

I had my son in 2020. When they came around to discuss vaccines I was like we will take any of the ones you have and any clinical trials you’ve got to. Load him up.

I happened to be in the room when a client of mine had just brought her baby home, and her mom was looking at the vaccine schedule intensely. She laid down the paper and opened her mouth, and my client held up a hand and said “it’s not up for discussion. He’s getting them all.“ could’ve hugged her.

I know you probably already know this, but the HPV vaccine(s) is/are also available right now. I REALLY want to see some cancers just cease to exist.