December 9th, 2010 
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Question by ~Love my kids~: If Do you think if people believe in vaccinations they should believe in breastfeeding too?!?
I am just curious… I know many people very adamant on vaccines because of “prevention” and “dont you want to protect your child and do what is best for them”…. but MANY of those SAME people never breastfed… and breastfeeding is proven to have NO side effects (unless mother drinks etc…) and PREVENTS many things… (decreases childhood cancers, adult diabetes, sickness, etc…)
NOW HEAR ME OUT—– I am NOT being judgmentall just merely asking for my own amusement… Why are people so willing to do one and not the other?? Is it because giving kids shots are easy and breastfeeding can be challenging?
**I support parents rights to CHOSE to vaccinate and CHOSE to breastfeed or not**
And dont say “the mom cant produce enough milk” because thats less than 10% of women that medically cannot… I am not talking about medical conditions.. just moms that chose not to do it
I luvs- I have to disagree with you (no offence) most of the vaccines are for things that arent that serious… Rubella is safe (except to pregnant people) chickenpox? Come on now… measels?? seriously… if you really read about MOST of them… they arent that bad to catch… and vaccines only have a 70% effective rate….
JMC- THANK YOU for sharing…. I completly respect your choice HOWEVER if you really look at the statisitics for lets say polio… polio was on the declined over 60% BEFORE the vaccine was invented…
LISA- haha I love you. We dont vaccinate… I have a college degree as an elementary teacher… married… etc
NICOLE- they want you to think they are mandatory… they even SAY they are… but there are exemptions… and forms to fill out at the local health department (religious and philisophical excemptions)
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Answer by Sierra
People are just hypocritical. That’s really the only explanation I can think of. They like to “take a stand” on things, but their beliefs don’t always line up. People will be people. We’re all guilty of it at some point.
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I breastfed but don’t believe in ALL vaccinations. I’m not into putting all this crap into my child when not enough research has been done to support that it is actually healthy for him. They are far too quick in putting out vaccinations with not enough testing these days.
And you’re right, its the womans right to choose to breadfeed and the parents choice to vaccinate.
The people who typically believe strongly for vaccinations are usually the ones who go with the “status quo.” They go with the flow, and right now, the norm is to bottlefeed. They don’t usually have a breastfeeding background (mom and grandma didn’t breastfeed), so they have little support in that area.
They also usually believe the hype that bottlefeeding is just as good as breastfeeding, or at least second-best, so it’s “good enough.”
Since vaccines are so standard (and required for public school, anyway), these people typically don’t give them a second thought. They also, like lack of breastfeeding support, would not have anyone that they know of support them in choosing *not* to vaccinate.
Bascially, many of those who unquestionably vaccinate and bottlefeed are just doing what “everyone else” is doing.
EDIT: To be fair, though, being a parent is hard enough without criticizing the way they feed their babies. Generally, I think most people have their children’s best interests in mind, and wouldn’t intentionally be doing something they thought was harmful to their child. Most parents are just doing the best they can.
I think you are being slightly…absurd. I know 7 mothers around my age. They are all for vaccinations and all but 1 breastfed until at least 3 months. Let’s not try to group people or assume things. I wouldn’t try to figure out why someone breastfeeds or doesn’t or why they do vaccinations or why they don’t….It so different for everyone.
I think its slightly different, not vaccinating a child has many risks of serious illness and could even kill the child! formula feeding may not be as beneficial as breast milk but it is still nutritious. people generally don’t think bad of a parent who bottle feeds but if a parent doesn’t vaccinate a child people assume they are scummy.
Very good point.. my guess would be the same as yours.. breastfeeding is difficult as vaccines is not.. I tried to breastfeed my soon and I’m one of those 10% that just didn’t produce milk! At first I thought it was something I was doing but when I finally gave up on it (practically had to my son had to eat!) I didn’t ever get engorged or anything! I give my son vaccines but I have been reluctant with all the stuff they are saying about them now days but in the end I would rather my son be here then not period. and if vaccines was that bad they would have been pulled off the shelf decades ago.. Great question though would like to hear the response from someone who as you said just didn’t breastfeed..
PS breastfeeding is a whole another level then vaccines it is completely natural no harm what so ever and the best protection you could ever receive its a far better thing then vaccines
I breastfeed my 8 month old, and I have since she was born. I plan on breastfeeding all of my children. But I am against vaccinations. Also, your baby is born on my birthday!! Lucky baby, it’s a good day!
I don’t get how anyone chooses not to breastfeed, personally. I know a small amount of women can’t medically, and some women work very tough jobs that will not allow pump breaks (but they could still BF while at home), but the rest who choose not to because they don’t like it – well, I don’t get it. I really don’t think it should be a reasonable choice to not do it, it should be something that is automatically done unless there are extenuating circumstances… Kind of the same way the adamantly pro vaccination people believe that vaccination should be mandatory, I suppose…
(I do vaccinate, but support a families right to choose… but don’t believe you have the right to choose not to breastfeed)
EDIT: For those who think formula is not potentially deadly – formula feeding IS killing babies in other countries where they have no access to clean water. This is thanks to the marketing schemes of the companies – read about the Nestle boycotts, and babies dying of diarrhea/dehydration.
Great answer, Kerri S!
“I luv’s my bub’s,” regarding your comment about non-vaccinating parents being assumed to be “scummy”: Studies have shown that the typical non-vaccinating mother is married, college educated, with a high income. Not the type that most people would consider “scummy.”
“Unvaccinated children tended to be white, to have a mother who was married and had a college degree, to live in a household with an annual income exceeding
$ 75 000″
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/114/1/187
Nicole, there are waivers you can get to send your kids to daycare and school if you don’t vaccinate. Here is the information for every state. http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=953402
I saw from a previous question that you live in California. In California, you just sign the back (second page) of this form. http://www.cdph.ca.gov/pubsforms/forms/CtrldForms/pm286b.pdf
I thought that vaccines were manditory, I didnt know that we as parents had a choice in the matter, unless your talking like a flu vaccine. Because all of the vaccines against diseases and stuff, I was under the impression that I had no choice, and that schools would not let children enroll with out current vaccinations? Well God bless you all.
I was totally not going to get involved in this but… I am a breastfeeding mother who absolutely vaccinates her children. In fact, the baby room in my daughter’s day care already had a confirmed case of whooping cough in September (whooping cough requires 5 doses of vaccine before completion.) I think (and yes– I think for myself,) that there are more benefits to modern medicine than drawbacks. Vaccines have massively reduced death by communicable diseases. It’s a pretty simple fact. Of course, we could have the autism debate– but is autism actually on the rise or are autism diagnoses on the rise? My understanding is the of the latter and not necessarily the former. Breastfeeding is amazing! I know you mentioned that it can prevent some childhood cancers– let’s not forget reducing the potential for mothers developing breast cancer. BF provides SO MANY health benefits. It does not, however, provide immunity to polio or hepatitis or whooping cough or tetanus and blase blah… So, this breastfeeding mother, is choosing to protect her children’s’ health by breastfeeding and vaccinating.
Yadda yadda yadda. Vaccines keep people from catching deadly diseases, breastfeeding does not. I don’t think breastfeeding alone can protect you from the numerous disease out there which vaccines can. How can you even compare the two? You can’t die from not being breastfed, but you can get very sick maybe even die from getting a disease which a simple vaccine can protect you from.
my son is up to date on his vaccinations and was /still is breastfed i can understand while women don’t b/f i have been quite sick of late and can’t take anything for it coz im b/f
It’s actually about only 1-2% of women that truly cannot breastfeed, and most of them have had some kind of breast surgery.
And yes, I think you hit the nail on the head…shots are easy and breastfeeding can be uncomfortable, inconvenient, and/or downright painful. So women delude themselves into thinking that formula is just as good, and get on here and get mad at breastfeeding mothers because they feel guilty.
And for the person who said that vaccinations are potential deadly but formula is not is sadly mistaken! Besides the increase in deaths due to them not recieving the antibodies in breastmilk, there are also formula recalls.
Everyone seems to know that some formulas in China were contaminated with melamine and killed babies, but all the major brands here in the states have also been recalled at one time or another, for things ranging from glass particles to salmonella contamination to e coli contamination.
10% seems awfully high…
I breastfed for almost 2 years and also got all of the recommended vaccinations.
Don’t you know? All the breast feeding women on yahoo are saints!
I HATE questions like yours, you aren’t asking because you actually want to know the answer you just either want to p*ss people off or you have an opinion you think is right and you want everyone to hear it.
I’m over this sort of sanctimonious bull on here.
People vaccinate their kids becuase they don’t want to see them die slowly and painfully of preventable diseases. The moronic people on here who say these diseases don’t kill, I’d bet you wouldn’t say that if it was your kid that caught it and was unlucky enough to have serious complications or die from it. If I could find you I would LOVE to give you Polio so you can get some first hand experience, as it seems your knowledge about the impacts of communicable diseases isn’t great.
People don’t breast feed for many reasons. We are fortunate to live in an age where women have choices. Yeah people give it up because it’s difficult or painful, does that make them a lesser person than you? No it makes them a person who made a choice that their child deserved a happy pain/stress free mother more than they needed breastmilk. If you have a problem with that then you should get a job volunteering to help people less fortunate than you because you most clearly have too much time on your hands. Get out of other people’s business. Are you out there yelling at people who abuse their kids? No you’re on here belitting women who chose to feed their baby differently than you did, well I say get stuffed.
I would also like to point out that breastmilk does not “PREVENTS many things… (decreases childhood cancers, adult diabetes, sickness, etc…)”
The only child I know with cancer is 18months and is still being breastfed by his mother. (God bless them both)
Lastly have a look at the tone you have used, merely prefixing with ‘I am NOT being judgment all’ doesn’t mean that everything that follows isn’t judgemental, it was.