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What I’d Tell You Over Coffee If You Asked Why We Didn’t Vaccinate

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What I'd Tell You Over Coffee If You Asked Why We Didn't Vaccinate, mother that will not vaccinate

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I was asked again, recently, what the reasons were we did not vaccinate our children.

Before I begin, I believe in parental freedom of choice whether to vaccinate or not. I hope we can all respect each others choice to decide what is best for our individual children and resist the temptation to judge one another.

As an RN and mother, I’ve been researching this topic in depth for quite a while (spurred on by an adverse reaction in my first son with his first (and only) MMR back in ’91), and I have many reasons for not trusting common vaccine science.

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8 FDA Black Box Warnings Of Very Common Drugs: You May Regret Not Knowing

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A black​ ​box ​warning is a​ ​consumer​ ​warnings ​with​ ​a​ ​black​ ​border​ ​placed​ ​on​ ​labels​ ​calling​ ​out​ ​the​ ​product’s serious​ ​health​ ​risks—like​ ​the​ ​one​ ​that​ ​appears​ ​on​ ​tobacco​ ​packaging.​ ​It​ ​is​ ​the​ ​most​ ​severe​ ​type​ ​of warning​ ​by​ ​the​ ​Food​ ​and​ ​Drug​ ​Administration​ ​(FDA).​

Black Box warnings are not something to take lightly. For the FDA to warn about a drug means it’s pretty bad (the last stop before a recall notice)! I believe the black box warnings are a result of the many lawsuits that are being won by injured patients and demanding them to warn others.

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Strabismus, Facial & Spinal Asymmetry Occurring Post-Vacc: Look For It

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Over 3 years, Germany’s central scientific institution, the Robert Koch Institute, accessed the mental and physical health of children up to age 17. The study (named KIGGS) of 17,641 children gathered a whopping amount of data, including their vaccination status….

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Vaccine Injury [the Rabbit Hole] and Regret: I’m Sorry, Jen!

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If only we could travel back in time and know what we know now. Would we do anything differently?

The title “Sorry, Jen” refers to a conversation I had with someone I befriended through La Leche League (a breastfeeding support group) when our children were very young.

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8 Million US Kids Taking Psychiatric Drugs: Parents Not Told Deadly Risks

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On August 18th, 2015, Chris Harper Mercer, the gunman responsible for the murders of 9 people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon on October 1st, wrote on his Facebook page: ‘I have a pill bottle with like five types of pills mixed in. I don’t know which ones are the sleep aids so I just took four of each.” (source)

Could one cause of the carnage of school shootings and other rampant violence be right under our collective noses? What are we doing to our next best hope?

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Vitamin A: Contrary To Pop Wisdom You Won’t Get Much From Carrots

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One of the most unfortunate FDA labeling rules ever is allowing food manufacturers to label beta carotene as Vitamin A.

There’s a common misunderstanding that beta-carotene found in fruits and vegetables is the same thing as vitamin A.

It’s not! And I will show you why – and why pregnant mothers who want to eat in the most healthy way they can and later feed their children with the greatest advantage are missing out!

[I am not saying not to eat carrots!!! But there are other things that you need to consume if you really want optimum Vit A levels for healing.]

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