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Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently…
- Refinery29 shares a list of eco-conscious brands just in time for Earth Day.
- Racked looks at the quick growth of Ipsy, Michelle Phan’s beauty box subscription.
- Above the Law comments on how Littler Mendelson labels every flextime attorney on its website (most of whom are women).
- The New York Times’ Women in the World explains how a new dad came up with an idea to ease his wife’s postpartum pain.
- Brightly gives you a list of the funniest books for kids.
- In The New York Times, Jennifer Malia writes about why Julia, the new “Sesame Street” character with autism, gives her hope.
- Scientific American reports on a new study that found differences in how parents in various countries rate their children’s autism signs.
- The Washington Post’s On Parenting tells you why spacing out vaccines is a bad idea.
- At Babble, Stephanie Portell writes about going through a divorce with have young children.
- From Mommy Nearest: “According to a recent study from Iowa State University, many parents who choose to co-sleep with their babies feel the need to hide it from friends, family and even their baby’s own pediatrician.”
- Also from Mommy Nearest: Why moms love Target.
- Honest Toddler shows you how to block “Calliou” (or any other show you’d like to pretend doesn’t exist) on Netflix.
Earth Day is tomorrow! Did you know that we have a shopping guide to slow fashion? Tomorrow is also the March for Science.
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October says
The vaccine article is super interesting and informative – thanks for sharing! By all means do your own due diligence when it comes to your family’s health, but I give a big eyeroll to people who think their Google research trumps the recommendations of health professionals who have studied and refined these things for decades.
Sabba says
The spacing thing irks me a bit though. My daughter had a minor reaction to a vaccine when she was young. After that, I insisted that she be introduced to only one new vaccine each visit so that we could isolate any future reactions. This put us on a “delayed” schedule. She still got fully vaccinated, only about 9 months behind the normal schedule. We prioritized the diseases based on severity/likelihood, so she was still vaccinated against measles at the recommended age (MMR was right on schedule at 12 months; whooping cough was right on schedule, etc.). The thing with the CDC schedule is that they have determined it is the best for the country given all available data, including accounting for families that don’t vaccinate. That does not mean it is the best schedule for each kid, or even for all kids in different parts of the country. I’m fine with parents that choose a delayed schedule, so long as they work with their pediatrician for a schedule that makes sense for that child and the child does get fully vaccinated at a reasonable age. I’d like to see a little more honesty on that aspect of it, as I think minor reactions to vaccines are relatively common, especially as allergies to everything are on the rise.
(former) 3L mama says
agreed. My daughter is 20 months and all “caught up” on her vaccines now, but we didn’t do hep B at birth and based on a few minor issues she had, chose a slightly different schedule in consultation with our pediatrician (while making sure the vaccines were still correctly spaced for optimum effectiveness). I am SUPER pro-vaccination but think it is ok to modify the schedule if there is a reason to for that child.
Meg Murry says
I agree with this as well – however, I think your case is 100% valid in that it sounds like you adjusted the schedule with the help of your doctor – not just by your own whims. My oldest also got behind at one point because he kept having a fever on the days that he had well child visits scheduled and couldn’t get the doses. Then at another point there was a shorage of a certain vaccine and all doctors were delaying healthy kids slightly so they could give the kids at highest risk the priority until the shortage was caught up.
The other thing is that the current vaccination schedule was also made based on how many well child visits insurance companies were willing to pay for, and based on giving multiple vaccines at once because some parents aren’t good at getting their kids to the doctor or vaccination clinic regularly. I have a friend who’s oldest child also had a reaction that could have been due to a vaccine (or could may not have, it also could have been food allergy related), so she worked out a schedule with her pediatrician where she did the vaccines individually and was able to schedule a nurse visit once a month for the first visit of the day – they just checked the temperature and weight and then gave the vaccine. That way she was only slightly behind for a couple of months instead of way behind if they only did vaccines at 6 months, 12 months, 18 months etc.
My pediatrician is European, so with my first son he was a little more flexible in his recommendations than the CDC schedule. However, I think the hospital system he is part of started to push harder on keeping kids on schedule, so now he will discuss with you but doesn’t deviate unless the parent specifically requests a conversation about deviating.
Note: I am super pro-vaxx, and my kids are fully vaccinated now. The only things we deviated from was that my oldest didn’t get the Rotavirus vaccine (it had only been added to the CDC schedule that year and our insurance didn’t cover it yet) and had slightly delayed chicken pox vaccine, and he got off schedule when we had to push back around 15 months due to constant infections. But I think a there is a huge difference between delaying a vaccine by a few months vs skipping or waiting until right before kindergarten.
Here is an interesting infographic of the vaccination schedules from the G8 countries as of 2015: http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h5966/infographic
Anon says
I’m very pro-vaccine and take a hard stance against playing with kids who aren’t on schedule. But I will admit that I delayed the first HepB shot for my kids. Instead of doing it in the hospital, we did it at their one week checkup. Everything else was exactly as scheduled, but since I had tested negative for HepB, we have a history of minor reactions to that particular vaccine in the family, and I had no risky behaviors that would have put me in a risk scenario, and I was okay with the kid getting it in the hospital if one or both of us ended up needed a blood transfusion, our pediatrician agreed this was okay.
Similar to Sabba, I do think there’s a fine line between “yes everyone must be vaccinated on a one-size-fits-all schedule” and “we allow room for individual variations based on sound medical guidance and approval”.
Kate says
Where are those rings from?? I know I must be missing it, but we’re going through the 12-week sleep regression and I’m exhausted!
Wehaf says
Bario Neal – it’s in the Refinery29 article (slide 6).