Blogger Samantha Elizabeth shared her family’s vaccination story:
Being a parent is hard. It is likely one of the hardest things I have ever had to do – and felt so ill-equipped to do the minute Rowan was home with us. Once we left the hospital I worried….and worried a lot. It was the fall season, also known as “flu season”…I had already been seeing Facebook posts about friends battling the flu, colds, stomach bugs and the like…and it terrified me. I wanted to wrap Rowan in bubble wrap and never let him go outside. I was fearful about other people holding him. “What if they are sick and don’t know it yet and he catches it. He’s just so little!” my mind wandered a lot. I look back now and know that it was just my natural instinct to want to protect him – and protect him from everything. That feeling really hasn’t gone away as he’s gotten a little bit older. But it has changed and morphed into a more “confident concern” in his safety and well-being. And in the process of becoming more confident in my parenting of Rowan, it also meant making the decision to have him vaccinated.