None of my children had measles, mumps or rubella -

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28. You will need BOOSTERS for the rest of your lives

I won't. That is the benefit of getting these diseases; LIFELONG immunity. When I went back to college in the 90s and they asked for immunization record it was said ONLY if you were born after 1958. When there was a measles outbreak at the school I worked at a few years ago, staff and parents were terrified and were all getting boosters. Me? Again, did not apply to me since I had measles when I was 2 (1950) before the vac was invented.

I worked with a 5 year old boy 1:1 whose parents didn't vaccinate based on religious grounds. When the classroom teacher found out this, she went out and got a whole bunch of boosters. I was told by the school nurse, "If you had all these diseases, don't worry at all". "You are probably the best person to work arorund him".

I had measles, mumps, chicken pox all before I was 3. Remember none of them. Since I was 6 when I got rubella, I do remember that, but I would hardly say that was the sickest I ever was. Try Food Posioning. Vac for that? My own children were vaccinated with the exception of chicken pox. My older daughter got it at 12, old for that. I was told to let her younger sister catch it from her. She did at 7 and her case was worse than her older sister's. They are now 34 and 29. Ask them what they remember about it? Oatmeal baths is all they say. Now, if it was SO BAD why wouldn't they COMPLAIN about it? A 12 and 7 year old are certainly old enough to remember.

My husband got shingles a few years ago in his early 60s. He laughs when he sees those commercials. "Worst pain I ever experienced", those commercials said. It ITCHED he said. While he did eventually go to the doctor, I spent a lot of time cutting our aloe plant in the yard and spreading it on his back! That did help him, but the problem was it didn't make it go away. No, people, I am not getting that vac. While I am be old, I don't have a compromised immune system, or take a lot of MEDICATIONS (like my husband does). Look up WHO is at risk.

As you can probably tell, I am one of those "natural" un-medicated people. BTW, that includes breastfeeding your babies. You want immunity for your babies? YOU are their natural immunity. Not going to repeat my story about my daughter on that one.