Welcome Kelli and intro

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Welcome, Kelli! I just joined myself. I recently had a

homebirth too (VBAC)...so much fun! I just don't worry what my

family thinks. My mom was at the birth and she was actually pretty

awesome, surprised me. My name is , I'm the sahm of two little

ones, Hayley (2 years old) and Aeden (two months old). We practice

attachment parenting. My first daughter was vaxed up until her third

DaPT shot, at which time she became sick. She had a fever of over

101 degrees for eight VERY long days. She would spend half the day

screaming and the other half sleeping. Her doctor tried to discover

what was wrong, and when he couldn't he told us that it might be the

vax, might not be the vax. He recommended that she not have

anymore. She also had ear infection after ear infection after her

first vax and after eight months straight of ear infections we had

tubes put in her ears. She hasn't had one since, thank goodness! We

have not vaxed her since and I'm pretty sure that we won't be vaxing

our son. We are thinking about getting him the tetanus shot though,

which is why I am here. Sorry, didn't mean to write a book!

Dunn

Mommy to Hayley Rose (Aug. 3/99) and Aeden Brandt (VBAC - born at

home July 28/01)

> I'm Kelli, attachment parenting, stay-at-home, homebirthing,

extended-

> breastfeeding, homeschooling mom to 5-year-old Rhanna, and due with

> baby #2 sometime in the next week (hopefully!). Rhanna had some

> selective vaccines on a late schedule which we discontinued

> completely around age 2, but we are thinking this time that we

> probably won't do any at all. We aren't even doing Vitamin K or eye

> drops for this birth, so heck if anyone is going to stick a needle

in

> my kid any time soon! I'm not sure how I feel about well-baby

> visits (that idea seems to make no sense to me), but on the off-

> chance that we'd need someone, I did meet with a homeopathic

> pediatrician who seems awesome - she's pretty anti-vax - so I'm not

> planning on getting pressure there. If our decision " gets out " to

the

> family, THEN we can talk about having pressure (would love to hear

> some of your responses to freaking-out parents and family members

who

> think you're nuts), but my plan at this point is to just avoid the

> topic.

>

> Anyway, that's enough for now!

> ~Kelli