28-12-2009 - ...MORE RESPONSES! =]

My mood while writing this blog: Ok

If you read my last blog... You will know why these responses are here:

So here they are:

"These stories always get me. I can't stop thinking about this thread, so I'll post. My first marriage, had 1 child, a son, in 1998. He received all the vaccines with full mercury (thermisol), 3-5 shots at a time. He was a daycare baby, on antibiotics a lot! He self limited food, mostly my fault here. Incredibly, he is a straight A, socially okay, well behaved kid, nearly 12, neurotypical, no asthma, healthy, eats very well, no delays ever. 2nd marriage. My now husbands immediate side of the family, there are some issues, selective mutism, OCD, no one with autism. While pregnant at 37 w/daughter, 2nd child, I had a new custom house I moved into, gassing off who knows what. The house was RIGHT next to an oil refinary. I walked EVERY day in that neighborhood for exercise. My d was born on time, but, unhappy out of the gate. (Due to Hep B stab at day 1?) Cried like the dickens for months- I EBF for 1 month, then formula (premade, out of can- aluminum?) She took herself off milk completely at 18 months, wanted no replacement. Difficult child, NEVER crawled, finally walked at 17 1/2 months, had a 22% speech delay at 2 1/2. NO one believed me there was an issue. Finally got a Sensory Processing Dx last summer. GFCF has gained us improvement, insite into her leaky gut, bio med. She has major yeast issues. We do Occupational Therapy. This child has been night and day from my other 2. I am reading up on chelation, Andy C. method, scared to death. But, I suspect she has metal issues. Will do a hair test when courageous enough. I know she was/has not been able to detox her body properly. Surprise, found out my husband and I were pregnant again and delivered a 3rd and last child at 40 years old. Different town, different house. This baby girl, at 3 days old, I KNEW was okay, happy. She is neurotypical at nearly 3 years old. She has had her shots up to 2 years old. Has no food issues, no delays of any kind. Now that I'm educated, I will NEVER allow ANY vaccination again. Not on my watch. Not on my kids. None of them. All 3 of my pregnancies were the same- healthy, no shots for me, on time babies, all 3 C-sections. -Sarah & Samantha 4 1/2 (SPD)

"We don't have an ASD diagnosis here and I don't know that we will, but I can honestly say that I think not vaccinating saved our little boy from something very grave. He has severe nutritional deficiencies in B12, zinc, riboflavin and folate. He has yeast and bacteria up the wazoo. He is MTHFR heterozygous. He has severe food allergies and he has high metals load of antimony and arsenic. He has a 6mo speech delay, and has never STTN at 17 mo old. We follow in all your footsteps because treating our son as if he were ASD is the only thing that is healing him, DAN! docs, biomed, supps, etc. I can see where things got worse for him based on what he or I were eating, or what he was exposed to, and I see how he is definitely one of these susceptible kiddos, somehow I was just lucky enough to have a deep seed of fear planted in me early on and I waited to vaccinate. Knowing what we now know, I not only think it would have injured him, with his allergies it could have killed him."

"For my son, I can think of about at least 20 things that I would have done differently (knowing what I know now). When I was pregnant I was told that I had no option but to get the flu shot!! I then spent my days painting the baby room and then painting whole house and I was cleaning everything with the toxic cleaners I thought I was just 'nesting' but I was harming my unborn son! At 3 months my son was so constipated that I rushed him to the ER where they said he had a fever and proceeded to do a spinal tap then I was told he needed to stay over night where they hooked up to an antibiotic drip! After that my baby wouldn't breast feed because he only liked the bottles at the hospital. I was almost 90% Vegan ( also part of the problem) so of course I gave him SOY formula all day every day for 1.5 years!!!! After my flu shot, I never felt right about giving my son shots but at around 8 months I was pressured by the nurse to 'catch up' on vaccines. I told the nurse I was worried about shots and autism (should have listened to my instincts!) they nurse made me feel like a 'crazy' mom and told me that my 8 month old did not have Autism (I really wish I had that in writing)!!! After that appointment my son was twitching his head for weeks like a TIC or possibly a seizure and I swore that there would be NO more shots! Not to mention that my husband has a ton of spectrum issues that I never noticed until my son was diagnosed with Autism. So for us it has been a combination of things and I do blame myself and I am bound and determined to reverse this and undo the damage!! I wouldn't wish this on anyone! My heart breaks all the time for my little boy who still struggles to speak! Thanks to this group and an amazing holistic Dr, we have come so far and we WILL get there. I feel stronger than ever and my son is doing better EVERY day! ps... Carol, I subscribed to your you-tube videos and from what I could tell your son is way ahead of where my son was at that age! You can see that at 5 my little guy can hit a home run in tee ball and drive a car in a parade and most people wouldn't pick him out of a group of kids as having special needs! He does have a speech disorder but I can't understand most 5 yr olds!! Your little guy is so young and a lot can happen in a short amount of time! I sent you a video response but you might not of got it because I am very technically challenged!! -AJ in Colorado