Vaccine refusal letter from pediatrician

May 5, 2008

Hi All,

This is my first post here. My wife had a preemie baby back in

January. She came 10 weeks early and was in the NICU for 6 weeks

before we took her home. She got through the first few difficult

weeks and is now about 3 weeks post due date and is doing great.

She was actually delivered while we were away from home by emergency

c-section. So, the hospital coerced us into getting the RSV shot

before we left because we were scared to take such a small baby on a

plane. They wanted to give her the hepB shot also and I said NO WAY!

I am anti-vaccine all the way but wy wife is a little scared to not

have any vaccines. She is slowly coming around though.

I have a question about our pediatrician. We have a regular

pediatrician. Are they called allopaths? He wanted to start the

vaccines the first visit and we told him we wanted to wait just to

get him to stop pushing. He gave us a little lecture on how he

wouldn't give us anything he wouldn't give his own kids. I felt

sorry for his kids. If he thinks that would persuade me, he is sadly

mistaken. Anyway, during the last visit, they had me sign the

vaccine refusal form and now I am finding out that I should not have

signed that as it could be used against me later if my daughter gets

one of those diseases. So, I found an alternate refusal form here.

We have to go for our next visit this Thursday and I'm thinking I

could bring this alternate form and demand that they use this form

and give me the other form which I will burn. Is this a good idea

and is this alternate form good to use?

Thanks,

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