Kelly Crawford

(Y’all, I try so hard to be brief…there’s just so much to say!)

I do NOT want this to turn into a Mommy War 😉 I want to be sensitive to choices regarding this controversial subject, and yet, in keeping with my favorite thing to do, prompt you to THINK. That’s all. We have been taught not to question the status quo (that’s public school’s fault 😉 But shouldn’t we know why we do a thing, and not just take someone else’s word for it?

We stopped vaccinating our children after the third child. Can’t really remember what brought it up…maybe someone mentioned the “danger” and I thought, “danger?…I thought vaccinations were good for children?” And thus began a deep search into the abyss of the vaccination debate.

I found some shocking things, and we decided we were done. More often than not, “preventative” medication may or may not do what it is supposed to do, but hardly ever gives little consideration to lasting or latent consequences.

I learned that vaccinations contain lots of harmful substances and there are plenty of studies to suggest many adult diseases–bad ones–may be related to childhood vaccinations. They have also been linked to autism and sometimes death in infants.

Often, we are convinced to vaccinate for non-life-threatening diseases…sicknesses that are fairly normal and heal themselves (the flu, for example), without introducing our bodies to excessive and harmful substances.

Then there are theories about breaking down our natural, God-given immune system because of the drug “shock” to infants that can cause abnormal cell growth.

And, of course, many of the childhood diseases once considered epidemic no longer even exist, but we’re still vaccinating for them.

Hepatitis B, given to an infant in the hospital, is my biggest peeve. Hep B is a sexually transmitted/drug use disease.

And once prompted to suspicion, I found all sorts of other theories about the dangers of immunizations that I won’t go into, but are well worth studying.

Once you start looking a little more closely to the possible over-drugging of America, you find all sorts of interesting ironies.

For example, as we prepare for a natural birth with this baby, I looked into the Vitamin K shot they give at birth. Briefly, it is given to prevent a rare blood-clotting disorder that occurs in 5 in 100,000 babies. Doctors do NOT tell you that the large dose given at one time increases the baby’s chance of developing leukemia!

Interestingly, there are two, much safer alternatives than sticking the baby as soon as he is born and placing him at this other risk. The cord is generally pre-maturely cut as soon as the baby is born. There are several negative effects and one happens to be that it deprives the baby of 40% of their natural blood volume, which contains blood-clotting factors!

If we left the cord alone, there would be no need for the Vitamin K shot. (You would think they taught doctors this! Or maybe they do, but again, we’re a culture built around speed and convenience.)

Secondly, breast milk from a mom supplementing with vitamin K will remove the risk as well. Simple.

EVEN SINCE I STARTED THIS POST THIS MORNING…I have discovered that I have fallen prey to the “unthinking propaganda” among the masses. I have taken synthetic hormones for my under active thyroid for 18 years. I read today that not only do these hormones cause all kinds of early cancers, but that there is a NATURAL replacement! AND, there are lots of nutritional ways to increase thyroid production IF you start before the thyroid is too damaged.

No doctor has ever told me anything except…”You have to take this pill to stay alive”.

Back to childhood immunizations…

It is becoming increasingly difficult to refuse these. Thankfully, the homeschool community doesn’t receive as much pressure. I fear that very soon, it will be compulsory.

And for some, the risks of developing some of the diseases for which children are vaccinated outweigh the other risks. Still I maintain, if you’re going to do a thing, at least do it with your eyes wide open, knowing why you do it, or why you don’t.

For more reading on this subject, here is a site with a huge lists of links…I have not visited many of these, so you’re on your own! To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate

Your thoughts?

Michelle at She Looketh Well is throwing a Titus 2 Blog Party this week! The idea is to introduce ladies to other blogs designed to encourage and strengthen the Titus 2 woman.

Be sure to go over and browse the list of blogs!

She also asked us to write an introduction of our blog for the new ladies coming to visit.

Generation Cedar is my heart’s desire to share what the Lord is teaching me about being a Christian, wife and mother. I ache for the body of Christ because I think so many have bought the world’s idea of fulfillment, throwing away the treasure of God’s gift to women. I believe that the strength of a nation lies largely with its women and their willingness to stand beside their husbands and raise up a godly generation. (The blog’s name comes from Psalm 92:12)

I am a wife and homeschooling mom to seven (eight is on the way!) and I struggle as much as any other woman to fight the flesh that I am and to become a godly woman, pleasing the Lord in my life.

Posts here include anything from serious rants about feminism, politics and abortion to goofy posts about our day. I try to stay tempered but instead sometimes lose my temper. I also try to apologize when that happens 😉

May you find a kindred spirit here.