Yes, you read correctly! Aside from the fact that I myself am sick (and have been for the past 4 days) I'm thrilled that Natalie has the Chicken Pox!
I (we) are of the opinion that the chicken pox vaccine is completely worthless. First of all, Alexa got the chicken pox when she was 15 months from someone who HAD the vaccine. Second, the vaccine hadn't been around long enough to know wheather or not kids needed a booster shot--since some vaccines require booster shots (because they start to wear off) if the Chicken pox vaccine needed a booster they wouldn't know it until the child was an adult getting chicken pox...MUCH more dangerous. Well guess what? Doctors are now starting to administer booster shots for the chicken pox vaccine...Hmm because it didn't work like you thought?
In the mean time Doctors like to scare people by saying "but if they do get chicken pox it will be a much milder case...because there have been cases where children are hospitalized and even die" First of all those statistics are very LOW and the children didn't die from chicken pox itself, they died from complications of infection. I'd love to know the economic status of those families because it's MUCH less likely for an educated family with the means to bathe their children in oatmeal baths twice a day to end up in the hospital. And as far as 'milder' case both Alexa and Natalie have been fairly mild...they'll be fine.
Anyway, that's my soap box about chicken pox. I have several friends who are planning play dates with Natalie because they too would rather have their children obtain a natural anti-body than to mess with the falsehood of the vaccine. And we're doing everything we can to make sure Brinley is next! :o)
Until then...here's miss Nattles happy as a lark in her first oatmeal bath! (OK so she's not so happy that I was taking pictures...but once she saw her spots in the camera she started giggling)
OOOO Lucky you!!! If we lived closer - I'd be right there!!! I AM singing with you!!! ;0)
Posted by: Kara Elmore | February 25, 2007 at 05:35 PM
The poor little thing she looks so forlorn! Both my girls had it about 7-10 days apart. It's such a relief when it's all over! At least the photographs make good scrapbooking pages! Angela
Posted by: Angela | February 25, 2007 at 05:55 PM
o no!!
poor thing!!
hope she gets better soon!
love the new look of your blog :)
Posted by: Vee | February 28, 2007 at 08:59 AM
You go girl! Educate, educate, educate! I'm sorry your girls were so miserable. Chicken pox were yucky at our house too, but as a person who had them as an adult, I totally concur with you.
Posted by: Jen | April 23, 2007 at 04:13 PM