Around the Web…

Some links for your Thursday afternoon:

• Who helped you through labor? — lilSugar
• An Australian sex shop is marketing itself as "family-friendly" — Jezebel.com
• Germs can linger for days on household items — CNN.com
• An interesting look at the vaccine/autism debate — Today Show
• Are fearful moms electing to have C-sections? — ParentDish

Comments

RE – Autism/vaccine link.

Yes, well I am yet another mother who stands up and does my own research on vaccines.

The “controversial doctor” named in that video is yet another doctor who makes his money at the expense of childrens lives.

I refuse to believe – after seeing substancial rises in both vaccines and autism within the last 20 years – that there is no link.

- Nancy S on October 30th, 2008

How can she possibly say there is no controversy? Does she honestly think that the thousands of parents whose children were never the same after their shots are ALL victims of a simple coincidence? Does she think they are ALL wackos? A few may be, yes, but thousands? Doctors need to start LISTENING to parents instead of telling us to just shut up and get the shots. Maybe we wouldn’t be so scared of the shots if they could tell us a a more likely alternative cause of autism, or if they developed a proper genetic test to predict which children are susceptible to it. Until they can do these things, they cannot expect everyone to blindly jump on board their shot schedule.

- Geomom on October 30th, 2008