"I suspect the reasons for vaccinating babies as opposed to two year olds is all about the lazy parents who are over all that stuff by the time the child is a toddler but might make an effort when it is still a baby."
What an insulting remark. Do you know how *hard* it is to be a parent to a child of any age? Laziness doesn't even come into it. Newborns are hard, toddlers are hard, teenagers are hard and I've had all three age groups immunised in their due time because I went by the schedule given to me, not because I'm lazy. I saw a baby with whooping cough once when I was 15 and I swore I'd make sure my own children never had to suffer in such a way.
If laziness really were an issue, most parents would wait until their children had left home before getting them immunised because anything before that is hard work.
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Date: 2008-08-05 01:50 am (UTC)What an insulting remark. Do you know how *hard* it is to be a parent to a child of any age? Laziness doesn't even come into it. Newborns are hard, toddlers are hard, teenagers are hard and I've had all three age groups immunised in their due time because I went by the schedule given to me, not because I'm lazy. I saw a baby with whooping cough once when I was 15 and I swore I'd make sure my own children never had to suffer in such a way.
If laziness really were an issue, most parents would wait until their children had left home before getting them immunised because anything before that is hard work.