ImperfectPixie
Well-Known Member
Absolutely. And I think any counseling needs to address the anti-vaxx movement with soon-to-be moms in a non-snarky and educational manner, so that when facing it as a new mom, women are prepared. (Seriously...it's bad. It's like they wait in the groups for someone to ask a question about vaccines. So bad that some mom and autism groups have made the topic off-limits.)Would you have been better served by your OB/Midwife/Doula if they would have offered information during pregnancy on why vaccination is important? Perhaps as part of prenatal care, some type of sit-down with a vaccine counselor type that could spend more than five minutes in an alarming YouTube video explaining why you wouldn't be poisoning your child or inviting Autism or whatever other nonsense argument? Reasonable rebuttals take time, because it takes time to give the pharmacology/vaccinology and infectious disease 101 to make a REAL informed decision. If it would have been offered in, say, late T2 or early T3 would it have made a difference? Would it have been a deal breaker or seemed overly aggressive if your provider or birth center of choice wouldn't deliver without completion of a course or counseling? There is so much going through a new parent's head, I wonder if this was a more aggressive part of pregnancy care we might be able to shut some of this anti-vax rhetoric down before it can get it's claws into a new family.