My wife declined the Hepatitis B vaccine for my newborn. We argued about it. I’m scared to death of making the wrong decision. I’m asking for help, what do you guys think is appropriate for newborn vaccines? The nurse came to our house and told us if we didn’t get the vaccines they wouldn’t work with us anymore. I brought up autism and she said that the person who came out with that lost their medical license and there are ZERO negative side effects for the Hep B vax. Exact words.
It was a long and hard pregnancy. My wife has had trauma in her past and refused any meds (which I was conflicted about because it was a nightmare to live through) and now she may be suffering from post-partem depression. She is way more anti-vax than I am, hates hospitals and doctors after what has happened, and I can’t blame her. Any thoughts or advice would be very much appreciated.
Your body produces an immune response when infected with a virus which protects you during future exposure. Some oral polio vaccines use a weakened live virus, therefore I cannot understand why you would think that wouldn't produce a similar immune response as exposure to the un-weakened virus.
How safe it actually is is up for debate I suppose, but I'm not sure how one could believe in the body's immune system and not believe expose to a weakened live virus in a vaccine wouldn't work in a similar way as exposure to the full strength virus.