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In reply to the discussion: The legacy of Andrew Wakefield continues [View all]Hekate
(90,936 posts)... so after he was born I said if she wanted to work out a less intense schedule with her pediatrician (that is, not so many all at once) that I would be glad to take him to the extra appointments that would involve so she wouldn't have to miss more work.
By that time, however, she apparently had done her own reading and was hanging out with a less woo-woo crowd. She opted for the pediatrician's recommendations.
In the years since then, she has undertaken running a licensed pre-school center. Although there's plenty of woo amongst her clientele, I think few if any of them skip vaccinations -- it just does not work in groups.
My daughter does not listen to me and my lifetime of reading and experience. But she is an intelligent woman, and eventually comes around on science.
Like you, she is too young to have experienced first hand what I have. Public health issues interest me -- always have. For a layperson, I am well-grounded, as was my mother. The illnesses we now have vaccines for are not trivial -- they cripple and kill.
But, conclude what you wish.