Re: re: newbie with a question - please help

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Mandy,

Thank you for the encouraging words. I am felling

more confident today thanks to all of you who have

responded to my email. How lucky I am to have found

you guys.

Warmly,

Sara

Mamma to nurslings Connor (11-17-98) & Madee (3-15-01

--- mandi <amandab@...> wrote:

> hi sara,

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> it sounds like you had a hard time at the doctors!

> i've been through

> that myself when i've approached doctors in my very

> small community to

> do back-up care for my homebirths. whew- that is a

> place you do not want

> to go~ both those times left me very-flustered and

> i'm not

> non-confrontational when it comes to doctors.

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> i can't say i think highly of doctors or the medical

> profession so my

> thoughts are this. i never took my babies to well

> check up appointments.

> i took them to the health clinic and weighed them

> there for my own

> curiosity. i also was able to rely on my midwife for

> any of my concerns

> about my babies. unless they are sick, why go?

> after my c-sec with my first and after deciding

> no longer to

> vaccinate my first baby when she was 1 years old, i

> learned that really

> you can trust no one but yourself when it comes to

> taking care of the

> health of your children. most physicians are not

> very open minded and as

> some of the previous posts have mentioned, there is

> no way you will ever

> change your doctor's mind. no matter what research

> or documentation you

> show them, they will not budge.

> i have been to a doctor who told me something

> that was absolutely

> not true and he was not able to find the evidence to

> prove what he said

> (i had the research to the contrary) and never did

> he admit what he said

> was wrong. your best bet is to educate yourself,

> trust yourself and find

> a naturopath or if like me, you have very few

> options because of where

> you live, just keep quiet about the vaccine issue.

> my girlfriend does

> not vaccinate her children and one of her daughters

> was sick and in a

> referral letter to a specialist, the doctor wrote

> " the poor child has

> not been vaccinated " when vaccines had no bearing on

> what she was being

> referred to! it puts you in a bad position.

>

> so sorry for your experience. it frustrates me

> greatly that we have a

> system that is supposedly there for the people but i

> think it's there

> for the doctor's egos and money. my sister's 10

> month old baby almost

> died because of doctor error (more than one doctor

> too!!) and the

> doctors refusal to trust my sister. thankfully she

> headed elsewhere

> before it was too late.

>

> trust your instincts and don't doubt your decision.

> you have the biggest

> credential and that is that you are the mother of

> your children and know

> what is best for them.

>

> take care,

> mandi

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