Is There Anything Wrong With Being a Little Careful -- March 30, 2009

I am not sure if vaccines cause autism but until someone can prove that they don't I would like to be extra careful. I know vaccines are important. They prevent diseases that used to run wild and take innocent lives. They save millions of innocent children. I am planning on vaccinating Aide but would like to use an alternative schedule. What is wrong with that as long as he eventually gets all of them. There is no date stamped on our backs that says that we have to get a certain vaccine by a certain age or it won't work or that it will be less effective. What's so wrong with doing it a little differently if it will make me, the parent, feel a little better and a lot less worried. Aiden doesn't have the predisposition to autism like a biological child of mine would but considering like 1 in every 90 some boys develop autism I would like to be careful that's it's not something that I do that causes it. I took Aiden in for his 2 month check up today. I told the doc that I would like to delay giving vaccines until Aiden was feeling better (he has a staph infection, thrush, and a yeast infection, poor baby), to see if the doc would be open to doing an alternative schedule. All I can say is wow. The doc acted like it was the end of the world that I preferred to wait for a couple of weeks. He kept on trying to talk me in to giving Aiden the vaccines by telling me about another little boy, who is 7 and unvaccinated, and contracted mumps (or something similar). And he told me that Aiden looked healthy enough for vaccines and the only reason to not give the vaccine on time is if the child was really sick. I wanted to scream at him that Aiden is really sick and has been sick since he was 2 weeks old with this and that. So apparently Aiden's immune system is already compromised from having to try to fight off bug after bug and you want to stick some dead virus's in him to top it off so his immune system has to work even harder. Are you f__ing kidding me. I was so upset with him but I just held my ground and told him that Aiden would not be getting any vaccines today.What kind of doctor would try to force someone to do something that they were not comfortable with. Aiden will get vaccinated but just not today, don't get your panties in a bundle. The doc is a really nice guy who takes time to listen to my concerns (but not today). I really hate that I now have to go find another doc because this one was so pushy about vaccines. He already knew about my unique family make up and about the children's disabilities. Now I have to go through the whole process of trying to "break in" a new doc.
I did how ever already find the new doc. Someone (who also has a child with autism) suggested this doc because the doc is ok with doing an alternative vaccination schedule, already has experience with children with autism, and was highly recommended by someones who's opinion I trust.