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Originally Posted by VikingMan
What an absurd statement. Actually my kid was born pre mature at only 4.5 pounds and the doctor wanted to immediately inject a Hep B vaccine. We declined because the baby did not even have lungs fully developed yet and hand to be put on a respirator and inside an incubator for several weeks. "That guy" *as you refer to me) made most of the health and nutrition decisions and now that tiny helpless underdeveloped baby is ahead of other classmates and hardly ever gets sick. As you many know most pre mature babies have lifelong problems and are behind other kids their same age.
Oh wait, the one time the kid was vaccinated there was a horrible reaction which required hospitalization and it took a few months for everything to get back to normal. So yes my kid has been really sick one time.
1. Mom breast fed for 1.5 years and after that everything has been whole organic foods. We never used store bought baby food. We bought a BabyCook and made our own fresh baby food. Absolutely no soda ever. No reason to drink that garbage and it tastes like shit anyway.
2. no vaccinations after the first scare and never has taken any anti biotics
3. pure air, I still run air purifiers
4. use of glass instead of plastic for drinks
5. natural fibers for cribs and mattresses so no cancer causing flame retardants to breathe in.
6 no cheap ass furniture made by slave-ish labor in Asia which off gasses. Everything is wood or metal.
7. Very limited time in the car because when you are on the road you breathe in a shitload of toxic air. Also we have property outside the city at the foothills of a large mountain and live way off any highway or busy road so the air is crystal clar
8. No WiFi in the house and extremely limited cell phone use for the kid. Breaker is turned off at night so no electric fields to disturb sleep. I have no idea if this matters but I saw a video from a PHD at Colombia who feels very strong about doing this.
Number 9 is going to get some of you nutjobs who think poisoning your kids is a good thing.......so get ready to wet your panties......NO FLUORIDE. Well some I guess from water and food cooked in with fluoridated water when we are out and about but at home the water is from a well so no bathing in that toxic shit and no drinking it. My kid's teeth are rotted right? Nope sorry again. Pearly white.
I do all of this yet the shit stain parents who feed their kids McDonald's, live next to a freeway, and let their kids play video games all day and let them press cell phones up to their ears for hours on end think I am a child abuser for not vaccinating even though vaccine companies admit that some kids should not have vaccines such as kids who have had bad reactions.
The way I see it not getting vaccines is kind of like reaching to the back of the cooler at the supermarket to get the freshest milk. It may not be socially responsible but fuck it I don't care I want the freshest milk and I don't want my kid having another bad reaction "for the greater good". If you vaccinate your kid and you believe vaccines work then being around my kid should be zero risk for your kid. But of course that is not how many parents feel.
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sorry for my assumption. i do what i can to mitigate the environmental and medical risk and i feel that vaccinating is one on the positive side. the only way it works for those who choose not to vaccinate their kids is the fact that most do. look at countries with next to no vaccination rates, they have a much higher mortality rate. of course they are also typically third world countries but regardless, vaccinations have saved a lot of lives. i respect your choice to not vaccinate but i feel the more parents who choose not to vaccinate, the more you are putting everyone else at risk.
as for all the other things you do for your kid, it all sounds great but is difficult to do in real life. i am with you on the food, while we don't go all organic we use it where we can but are also are aware that the natural pesticides they organics use can often be as or more toxic than the typical ones. we've never fed our child baby food, we make our own for him and yeah no soda, and stuff like that. of course we won't be able to keep him from it forever but hope to teach him good eating habits.
glass cups? really? i hate using plastic but i couldn't imagine the amount of broken glass i'd be cleaning up if i used glass. not to mention i've never seen a glass sippy cup. do you also allow no plastic toys?
i don't know how you managed to buy a crib mattress without flame retardant. its against the law to produce them without it. we got one of those soybean mattresses but the outside still has flame retardants unfortunately.
i live in the burbs and while we live in a quiet road, we're still sandwiched inbetween other people. the wifi thing, well i don't know what to think about that. regardless there are radio and other waves in the air. either way, it must be a pain in the ass to be wired all the time. cellphones are worse than wifi though. i gotta say man, either you go the furthest extreme or this is all made up..turn off the breaker at night? uhhh now you are getting silly. i guess your food goes bad nightly.
as for fluoride, i keep it as low as possible. and while you think you are safe using a well, your well could have very high levels of fluoride. naturally occurring, which is better but still. unless you have some great filter on it (which im sure you do judging by everything else you say you do) you could have some microbes/bacteria that might not effect you but could effect the kid. i don't give my kid city water, we don't even drink it. i try and make sure we only use water with .02 ppm of fluoride at most. though this means drinking bottled water, which is a downside.
in the end while you can keep your kid in a bubble while he/she is very young if you try an do this for the rest of their life they will either grow up to be a freak or hate you. you gotta let kids live, this world is poison, no doubt about it but we only get one life and what is the point of spending it in a constant state of worry and fear? teach your kid to enjoy life, not just to fear it.