There is no reason for these vaccines. The reason the children are contracting tetanus is because in Africa, when they are born, they smear cow dung on the cut umbilical cord. They are literally poisoning their children. Instead of vaccinating the children, just educate their culture that this is not a safe thing to do.

I just removed all Pampers from my baby registries and asked that all people refrain from purchasing them for my child. I will not support anything that supports injecting such horrible toxins into people and children!

I used to be all gungho about vaccinating and now I’ve done a 180. My son was vaccinated totally until age 4. He won’t be receiving anymore vaccines and our baby due this summer will receive none whatsoever.

Do the research people, I beg you to! I know not everyone feels the way I do and I respect that.. and for most families vaccines do exactly what they are supposed to. In our family, they do not. PLease PLEASE research before you vaccinate. Make an EDUCATED decision and not blindly trust all doctors and gov’t officials… you know what? They DON’T know best!

Go read the ingredients lists for all the vaccines we pump into our babies.. it kinda makes you sick to think about it once you know what’s in them.

Some vaccines should be completely pulled in 1st world countries.. many disease have been ERRADICATED.. and who’s pansy idea was it to have a chicken pox vaccine? That’s just LAZINESS! American companies don’t want their employees to miss work to stay home with a sick kid, so they pushed that vaccine on everyone. I’m glad that things are different here in Holland.. they do almost all the vaccines (even though we won’t be using them), but they don’t have pointless ones like chicken pox. Here parents are treated fairly when it comes to their children and needing to stay home with them… most mothers are stay at home moms anyway.

Again, please do the research and don’t just assume what ANYONE tells you is right..

We do this here in France already. We buy Pampers cuz they are the best and we also like knowing some of the money spent on them goes towards a good cause.

Read the news release on the Uniced site http://tinyurl.com/38dmmv and notice that what they are doing is donating 5 cents for each qualifying purchase. Considering I just paid $26 at Target for a box of 100 Size 4 Cruisers, I am a little underwhelmed by this. Yes, it is wonderful that they are doing anything at all, but come on, a whopping 5 cents of my $26?

While Salma’s celebrity will certainly draw attention to this campaign I agree that it would have been much more becoming of her to refuse a payment for her participation.

In Portugal they did the same with Dodot diapers. Dodot is owned by Pampers, anyway. The diapers, wipes (and their names), the wipes boxes are same. – http://www.dodot.pt/servlet/jope.showPage/html/sp/microsites/unicef/home.xml

Beth: As someone getting a graduate degree in public health, I definitely see your point about the umblical cord stumps. However, education isn’t enough to prevent disease. Women have to have access to the materials to do so. I mean, if you are living in a hut somewhere, the probability of getting dirt on the stump might be pretty high. So, perhaps women would be better served with money going not only to education, but to the tools to help them put the education into practice

Well over here in Germany we are already done with the champaign and i read what they had written on it and if i recall right one vaccination costs only 1 Cent and they are making such a big deal of it!!!!

All my kids wore Pampers and so does my 5 months old now but sometimes i buy other name brands as well.

“She will be paid an undisclosed honorarium for her participation.”

I think it is sad that a multi-millionaire who is engaged to a billionaire would accept payment from a CHARITY.

I have always admired Salma, and wonder if this is the whole story.

Huge congrats to her on Valentina though! I bet she’ll be a great Mom.