My cynical side....

Ugh! I hate how Satan works in me to bring out the worst.

First things first though.

Maggie had her 2 month check-up today.

9 pounds, 8.5 ounces

23 inches

I thought she was pretty long compared to the other guys. Nope. When I got home I checked their calendars. Max was 12 pounds, 9 ounces and 24.5 inches long and Molly was 10.5 pounds and 23.5 inches long. Anyone who knows Max knows that he hasn't grown too much in height since then :)

She is beautiful though. I know I said the same things about my oldest 2, but somehow it seems different this time around. Maybe it's because she is my last.

Now on to my cynical side....

doctors, media, drug companies, government....

Maggie got 3 shots today and an oral vaccine.

Yes, I made the decision to have them done. I think vaccines are extremely important and my kids have always handled them very well....their biggest side effect being more sleep.

Yes, being poked 3 times as opposed to the 4 times Max and Molly were poked at 2, 4, & 6 months is better.

However, one of those shots had THREE different vaccines in it. One shot had Hep B, polio, & Dtap in it. And doesn't DTap have 2 or 3 vaccines in just that one alone?

So vaccines today were:

Hep B

Polio

Dtap

Prevnar

Hib

Rotovirus

Are things really that bad out there? I do it because I want to keep my children from getting polio or hep b or ending up in the hospital for a week. But do really need to do it all within the first 12-15 months of their lives? Do they do it this early just because they can't run away?

I don't give my kids the flu shot...never have and they have never had the flu.

I know people who get the flu shot EVERY year and their entire family gets terribly sick with the flu EVERY year. Who knows???

Max is due for the chicken pox booster next month. Not a chance. What's wrong with getting the chix pox? I am with those moms who have chicken pox parties.

The cynical side of me says that the government is making big bucks off of this stuff.

Not so many years ago you didn't hear of ADD, ADHD, Autism, allergies to peanuts, gluten allergies, etc. WHERE IS IT ALL COMING FROM????

You have doctors saying that all of these vaccines are safe.

You have doctors meeting with kids for all of 20 seconds diagnosing kids with ADD & ADHD and sending the ridalin to schools so that the kids can line up 10 minutes before lunch to take their pills.

Organic, organic, organic....if it is SO good for you then why on earth is it SO expensive????

If the government truly wants us to be healthy and cut health care costs and all of the other nonsense then why does milk from a normal cow cost almost 7 bucks a gallon.

And if anyone knows me they know that I don't have a lot of faith in doctors anymore.

After one wanted to cut me open and put a stint in for a kidneystone that I had already passed....

After another told me to prepare for the worse when my 3 week old baby girl's blood work came back abnormal...only for them to come back 4 hours later and say oh never mind she is just fine...

I don't have a lot of faith in them. I go for the well visits b/c I want a second pair of eyes to check her over and make sure her eyes and ears look good. The vaccines b/c I think that they are important and if my kid has an illness, I go for the scrip. I don't let them fool me into making me think they know my child better than I do.

I'm one of those people who believe that cancer will never be cured b/c the drug companies make WAY TOO much money off of it. People counter that with "yeah, but won't they make a ton more money off the drugs that they will use to cure it". There is probably big money in that, of course. But if you cure it then people won't keep coming back for the chemo and radiation treatments that cost thousands of dollars per treatment.

The media loves a good story and vaccines is where it's at that's all we hear about.

If it's eating organic...that's what we hear about.

If it's about getting the latest vaccine...that's what we hear...until we hear that all of these great vaccines suddenly may have a problem and they are pulled.

The government, media, drug companies....they certainly know who to go to to make their big bucks...a mom.

Tell a mom that their kid needs it or he could get terribly sick and end up in the hospital or worse.

The guilt of a mother...not too much out there with greater power.