Reddit reviews The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child (Sears Parenting Library)

I'm a 3rd year medical student, on my 5th week of pediatrics, we had a lecture on vaccines today. Apparently there's an "alternative" vaccination schedule proposed in The Vaccine Book where at least the MMR (Measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine can be broken up to be given in smaller or broken up doses over more visits, I don't know about other vaccines.

Book is legit, written by a licensed pediatrician completes the current vaccination schedule appropriately, just in a different manner. The end difference is that you have to take your kid to the doctor a bunch more-->more copays-->more money for the pediatrician.

The end result, really is that some pediatricians don't have a problem with it, moreso ones in private practice, because they get more business and money for doing something that has the same health effect as the less financially beneficial path.

Could you argue that spacing out the doses puts kids at higher risk for preventable infections? Yeah, but I guess the schedule isn't TOOOOO different to make it a big issue.

As far as Trump saying that the kid got a fever a week later? Yeah, that can be a known side effect of certain vaccines. Your physician should let you know about that when they give them to you/your kid, but the fever isn't a serious problem at all unless you're already febrile and/or/maybe have a low threshold for seizures...which you probably don't.

TLDR; There is an alternative schedule which delivers the same amount and type of medication as the traditional method, but takes more time and costs more money.

people may believe these kind of things. But i dont think anyone would risk their child's live by avoiding these kind of medicines, just by believing these whatsapp/fb videos. Dont worry so much.

Seems like healer baskar is talking about this book: https://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Book-Decision-Parenting-Library/dp/0316180521/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1486266298&sr=1-1

has anyone read this book? or know what it is about?

But vaccination isn't just for your child's benefit. By not vaccinating him at a young age that creates a risk for children too young to be vaccinated.
I'd also like to add that my mother did not have me vaccinated for meningitis as a child. I only found this out a matter of years ago and was furious. As my mother it was her responsibility to do everything she could to ensure my survival until I was old enough to look after myself. As for the book, anyone who wants to read some of it, the majority of it is available to read on Amazon for free. http://www.amazon.com/The-Vaccine-Book-Decision-Parenting/dp/0316180521

Also, please remember a majority of the thought to be 'problematic' vaccines in this book were using the live virus, something which is rarely if ever done with babies nowadays. Injecting your baby with saline solution and a dead virus so it's white blood cells can recognise it in the future is simply common sense. As for the "bad reactions" some kids get, a lot of them are actually just their white blood cells getting to work and ensuring that the virus is dead (which is was when injected). Just like when we get colds our glands swelling up is a good sign, it's our body fighting back, despite how uncomfortable it may be.

We have Dr. Sears's The Vaccine Book. It's fact-packed, extremely detailed and completely even-handed.

in regards to alcohol. She most definitely can have a drink periodically. That is one of the biggest myths out there with breastfeeding.

Typically depending on your metabolism one ounce of alcohol such as Vodka or rum, a 4oz glass of wine, a beer will metabolize in about an hour and a half. Some people maybe an hr, some people maybe 2 or 3 hrs. Alcohol hits its peak in your blood about a half hour after consumption. Alcohol leaves your breastmilk once it is out of your blood. If you are ok to drive, you are ok to breastfeed. My kiddos tended to have a stretch of sleep from 8pm-midnight. So I would nurse them to sleep, get up and have a glass of wine 2 or 3 days a week, then follow that with some water. By the time babe was ready to nurse I was good to go.

How old is your little one? and just curious you mentioned she has sensitive nipples. is this in general or just since breastfeeding? Has babe been checked for a tongue or lip tie?These can affect the latch and cause sore nipples or damage. it can be clipped or lasered which will vastly improve the latch. Other common things for the sensitivity could be thrush or vasospasm. The soreness I wonder about plugged ducts. Is she wearing any restricting clothing? too small of a bra or one that has underwire that may be pushing on a duct near her arm pit.

Teething could go any which way. My oldest it never affected her latch, she cluster fed and that was about it. My youngest has just finished getting her molars and she got lazy with her latch. I had to spend more time making sure she was latching well but that was about it. Some kids actually nurse less cause it can hurt to suck when teething. Generally speaking if the latch is good, she should not feel the teeth.

Neither of my kiddos ever took a bottle. If I wanted to go out I waited till they were older to go longer then 2 hrs. but generally once they were past the newborn nursing stage and going longer naturally between feeds if I nursed first, left and then were back in and hr or 2 all was well. We co sleep so no reason for my partner to take over feedings, he would change the diaper and burp when needed though. Also even if your little one took a bottle, your SO still has to get up to pump to keep up her supply. she still has to pump when babe would have normally eaten. If she does not then that signals to her body to make less, since less was removed. It is a supply and demand game when it comes to breastmilk production.

www.kellymom.com is a fantastic resource and usually gives links to their sources. May want to check that out as well.

Even though this is not of popular opinion, especially on reddit.I have to say I feel your wife when it comes to vaccines. We saw some negative reactions with my oldest and she has a permanent scar now from an injection site. I myself had a negative reaction to a vaccine. We did more research when pregnant with our second and have choosen to hold off till she is 2 yrs and then re evaluate. I am leaning towards 2 In particular, but my SO does not want her to have any still. Our doctor is pro vaccine but after my reaction and our daughters he is very hesitant to move forward with vaccinations with our youngest. I read and researched a lot. It is hard cause most articles and papers are very biased. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316180521/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1374668468&sr=8-1&pi=SL75 this book is not as biased I found. The author is still pro vaccine, but he addresses a lot of what people worry about. Maybe it will help you understand your partners concern or even help her or you come to a consensus on what is best for your kiddo. I do believe that the parents need to agree or compromise on something that is this big of an issue.

Is there any reason for you to be concerned about risks (family history of vaccine reactions, autoimmune disease, etc)? If not, I don't understand your concerns at all. Thousands (millions?) of kids have gotten all of their vaccines and were just fine. And I am not sure what you mean by skeptical that "every single one is necessary" - is there some diseases you would want your child to have?

Actually, I was the same way, I was swayed by the anti-vaxxers at first, but did some research while pregnant and I am very pro-vaccine now. I liked this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Vaccine-Book-Decision-Parenting/dp/0316180521

In the end all my kids got all their vaccines with only MMR being slightly postponed from what was recommended. Dr. Sears provides an alternative schedule in the book if it's something you would be interested in.

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As a pediatrician, lactation consultant and mother, please avoid:
Babywise it has been condemned by the American Academy of Pediatrics and La Leche League for its bizarre recommendation that newborns be put on a feeding and sleeping schedule that is pretty much designed to lead to breastfeeding failure, attachment issues, and failure to thrive. The reviews on amazon tell quite a story--some of the 1 star are former 5 star submitters who realized that their baby wasn't "good" or "obedient" or "quiet", they were starving like little Romanian orphans and had given up making noise because they were just ignored. If I could put every copy in an incenerator I would.
The Vaccine Book, a wildly misleading tome full of misinformation and fearmongering. For accurate vaccine information, please read Dr. Paul Offit's Vaccines and your child. He is a vaccinologist, meaning that he has devoted his entire professional career to studying vaccines. Dr. "Bob" is a general pediatrician, like me, and has no additional training in immunology, virology, microbiology, or vaccines.

I was recommended to get The Vaccine Book by Dr. Sears.

(36W FTM) I personally got it on CD to listen to on my commutes. It seems pretty balanced IMO.


Also, it IS overwhelming. I'm just researching the vaccs as they come to me in order... so... Flu, Tdap, Hep B right now.


I still haven't decided on tdap for myself yet though. I'm having a hard time. Hub is for it...


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lol. I'm an idiot and responded to my own post.


hahahaha.



Not deleting anything.

Well...like this one.

https://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Book-Decision-Parenting-Library/dp/0316180521

http://www.amazon.com/The-Vaccine-Book-Decision-Parenting/dp/0316180521

It's actually more or less pro-vaccination, but it does a good job (IMO) of giving both sides of the story to all the different vaccinations.

Newbie here. I have had this book pinned for when the time came. You can find it here.

I heard about the book listening to him speak about it on a podcast (Pregtastic, I believe). I like that it's from a doctor's perspective. There is a short bio on there but I do know he strongly touches on the delaying schedules of certain vaccines. Hope this helps!