Addressing unsupportive Ped

[Guest guest]

Please don't answer this by telling me to see another ped.

Here is my situation:

My son is 3.5 and has had all the immunizations. My daughter is a

year and has too up to this point. When she goes in for her 1 year

appt we will be ceasing this. She sees a vaccine-flexible ped who

does not have a problem with this. I started taking her to a

different ped for this reason--she had a mild reaction to the

vaccinations.

Anyways I love the ped my son sees for so many reasons. Her advice

is worth so much because I love her outlook and expertise on things.

The new vaccine-flexible ped is just not good with the stuff she is

and she does things I don't agree with.

I want to continue to take my son to this ped to maintain the

relationship, but although she was once flexible on vaccines, she is

not any more. For his next round of shots, I would like to forgo

them, but I think this ped is going to have a lot to say about it and

really push it, possibly to the point of dropping us as a client (can

she do that?).

How should I deal with this? What do I tell her when I refuse the

vaccines? Would it be better to say I am not doing them because of

religious reasons and what does that mean--I know nothing about the

religious exemption? Or should I approach it another way? I don't

wan to have to argue with her--I want it to be as nonconfrontational

as possible.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Sommer