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In reply to the discussion: Sisters claim HPV vaccine caused ovarian failure and premature menopause [View all]Scairp
(2,749 posts)But the number of vaccines in general freaks me out. I have two grown daughters and am literally doing this "second time around" child rearing, and since the time my older girls were babies getting immunized and now it seems the number of shots the kids get are overwhelming. There was no chicken pox vaccine when my girls were little, so they both got the disease. It sucked but they had medical care and were fine, are fine. And of course I had people bringing their kids over to my house to expose their kids to chicken pox to get it over with. It worked, we had quite an outbreak and everyone lived. I'm glad my last child won't have to go through that but if she did it wouldn't be the end of the world. This is quite different of course. We are trying to reduce a horrible cancer that only affects women, so when it's just about females, misogyny rears it's ugly head, as it did when this vaccine was announced as ready to go. If it were for boys to prevent some terrible cancer that would cost them their nuts one day as adults I'm sure the attitude would have been so opposite. I'm sure I will take her to get the vaccine after she turns 9, as I've taken her to get the others, but I've always got a little voice in my head worrying me to death that some vaccine will make her ill, affecting her in a way that would lessen her intellect or her ability to do the things she loves that are very physical. It's scary being a parent.