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Babies and honey....all the powers that be say no honey until after age one, including honey in cooked form, due to the risk of infant botulism. Any opinions from older folk? Is this a new thing? An American thing?
I remember that. It didn't make sense to me. Sounds like a bunch of feldercarb to me. Like they tell pregnant women to not eat canned tuna because of the mercury levels, yet on day one of a baby's birth they begin injecting him/her with vaccines containing mercury. (Dear God, if I had only known then what I know now...) And they gave us some crap about wanting a blood sample to test for some sort of infection. They couldn't get a vein and they dug the needle in my poor daughter's foot and I had to restrain her. She was screaming and being tortured and I should have told them "no" from the beginning. Then later I found out that the government stores babies' blood for DNA tracking purposes and it sounds like it's straight out of an episode of The X-Files. There have been lawsuits involved with that though, so it is an actual thing.
Oh, yeah! Just dealt with that one a year ago when my baby was born. The only thing I didn’t research was that blood test, the PKU. I told the staff I didn’t want to do it. Mind you, they told me at 2 am when they were coming in to do it that they were just popping in to draw some blood. I said, whaaat. Nope, you’re not doing it. I kid you not, there were multiple doctors, nurses and midwives that visited us telling the importance of the PKU test. After a heated conversation with one of the “medical professionals” she hesitantly admitted the only people who deny it don’t trust the government. 😂. I looked right at her with all seriousness and raised my hand. I still regret that we gave into that test. We refused absolutely everything else and even signed paper work for early discharge against the hospitals will. My spouse and I put our tinfoil hats on and said that if we do this test then our baby will at least be blood banked with us and her siblings, hopefully keeping us together in some sort of weird end of the world hunger game type sorting. Very SIFi, I know, but we were sleep deprived and already fighting the system on all sides. She’s our first that we’ve denied everything with (we didn’t learn about all the evils until my other children were 3 and 5 years old) Let’s just say they were very happy when we were discharged. When we left they told us we should think about home birth if we have another child.
Our daughter did not turn out autistic, but then again girls are safer from that than boys. She does have a slight peanut allergy and occasionally suffers from hives and other skin conditions. I'm certain that this is from vaccines. She was born in '08, and I understand that the number of vaccines has only increased since then. I swore to her that she will never again get a vaccine. The stuff in the mail about the tetanus booster, HPV, and COVID shots were all pitched in the trash. Never again.
Same with all three of ours. My oldest got all of them including the kindergarten shots. We homeschool now and have a fantastic D.O. who supports our no vaccine lifestyle. Never again will they receive a shot.
First I have heard!
Yeah, it’s a thing for sure! Ask any young mom out there. They immediately are like “No honey!” We allowed a little through out the first year. Mostly cooked Into breads or in dishes. Just couldn’t get myself to give it to her raw though. You know they take everything away that’s good and healing for us. I just have to wonder if this is one of those things.
I thought it could be due to vaccines too, kinda like egg allergies these days.