Comments on: Turn the tables, shall we?

By: Gene Hill

Gene Hill — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:44:48 +0000

As a Dad of a 30 year old son I must say that I appreciate your post above. I have been reading about vaccinations. I am at the point that I do not know which scares me most – having my child vaccinated or not. I have done some research and my mouth goes dry at what could have happened to my boy.

My wife nursed our boy exclusively for almost a full year. The last three months is when she began introducing solids. Still kept up the nursing until almost the 2nd year.

Our grand son was birthed at the midwifes (DIL’s cousin). He has not been vaccinated as of yet. Nursed exclusively for the first year. Boy seems to be healthy.

My advice – educate yourself, make an informed decision and then “don’t let the low rents grind you down.”
God BLess.

By: misty smith

misty smith — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:51:19 +0000

Love this, Miss.

By: sharron

sharron — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:40:27 +0000

One of my favorite, and often-used lines, is “different things work for different families,” and from what I hear, for each child as well. . .

By: susy

susy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:32:52 +0000

Oh and I finally got to read the fb attack…way to handle it at the end, Missi.

By: Susy

Susy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:13:32 +0000

Thank you, Missi. I will be linking this post in one of my blogs soon.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:11:05 +0000

Maybe it’s because I’m a Bay Area native and it’s renown for its eco-friendly/ more natural approach, but your choices really don’t seem out of the ordinary for me? It’s weird to hear that you receive backlash for deciding to go the route you’re going, but it is not surprising. You live in a region of the world that is big on tradition and “modernity” and maybe this need for ” modernity” is birthed out of insecurity, as the south is often thought to be behind the rest of the Western World by decades. Natural is not synonymous with primitive, but people tend to look at it that way. In reality, adding unnecessary procedures and practices to things tends to make things way more convoluted then they need to be.

I appreciate that you do your mothering the way you feel is best, just keep in mind that when you do things against the grain, there will always be backlash. It’s the whole lobster in the pot analogy, if one can’t escape, no one can. People don’t like to be challenged in their paradigms but keep your head up and keep doing what you’re doing…

By: cristina

cristina — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:15:53 +0000

Well said.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:06:06 +0000

PS…. VERY close… it’s Guillian Barre I know…. I’m a medical dork!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:04:16 +0000

I agree with you Missi. I have similarly been attacked for my differing choices and opinions. And, while I don’t agree with many of your parenting choices (no offence and all, because I know you won’t agree with mine), there is NO WAY I would ever criticize what your choices are. As long as you are not endangering your children (which from the many blogs I’ve read and pictures I have seen I know that you’re not) then it is NONE OF MY BUSINESS!

By: Natalie @ Naddy's Blog

Natalie @ Naddy's Blog — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:59:34 +0000

So true. I frequently avoid saying things about cosleeping, tandem nursing, on cue feeding, no vaxing, etc, because I don’t want the other person to think that I’m trying to slyly insinuate they’re doing it all wrong if they’re not.

I just wish people would just ASK me why I do things, instead of assuming that I’m crazy or I think that this is the best way for every single family to be…I don’t feel that everyone needs to do things just the way we do. How boring that would be!