Mothers!! Question: To Immunize or not to immunize your child?

This topic was given to me by my friend "Lotta"! There has been a major debate over the last decade about immunizing your children. Do you or don't you? With the scare of autism, so many parents are having a hard decision to make. When I had my son, which was only 5 years ago - it was 1 in 166 boys get autism. Now 5 years later, it's 1 in 60! Doctors are still saying that immunizations don't cause or contribute to autism but if you ask mothers that have an autistic child they might say something different. Many mothers of autistic children noticed differences in their children shortly after 2 years of age and getting their shots. The whole thing was just scary to me. When my son turned 2, I literally prayed before I went to the doctor.


There are some pretty famous women who sons have autism and they are talked about the gluten in food effecting their child. By removing the gluten it seems to be helping their children so that's a good thing. So, the question is, do you immunize your child? I have given both my children all their shots at the time they were supposed to get them. I even had a good talk with their doctor before they got their shots, he again tried to reassure me but when you listen to other mothers - you just don't know who to believe. There was actually one case where the parents sued the doctors and won. Their daughter got autism right after her immunization but it was proven that they gave her the shots while she had a fever and that is a big no-no!

Besides autism, is there another reason you wouldn't immunize your children? I do think it's important because of all the diseases you are preventing. They even have a vaccine for chicken pocks now! WHAT! They didn't have that when I was growing up! Everybody had chicken pocks. I got mine in the 7th grade. I thought my life was over. I kept looking in the mirror crying! Now, you don't ever hear of kids having it. I am going to continue to give my children their vaccines and also continue to pray over my babies. What about you?