Meet Robyn from the Hollow Tree Ventures blog and her reasons for vaccinating:
You’d do anything to keep your kids safe, and that starts before they’re born.
Because hey, you just don’t take a chance on your baby’s health. If there’s something you can actively do to reduce the risk of them getting sick, you do it. Plus, frankly, I don’t want to catch the sniffles either, even if they’re some kind of fancy royal variety.
So when my son was born, tiny and vulnerable and thirteen weeks premature, I did everything in my power to protect him. I enforced hand washing rules until most of my family members barely had any skin left up to their elbows. For the first few months, I didn’t take him out to the mall or a kindergarten classroom or anyplace else that tends to be filled with people who might carelessly cough in his general direction. And yup, I made sure he got every vaccine under the sun as soon as he was medically able to get them.