You are invited to meet me at a local breakfast joint. I will buy you to a warm cup of aluminum, raw eggs, human cells, gelatin, and a dash of formaldehyde. It's my treat!!! Just the thought of that special mixture sounds nutritional, full of exquisite taste, and satisfying, right? According to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia vaccination web site, all of those ingredients listed above fill vaccinations that are given to our beloved children. The motion of dismissing the doctors and these toxic ingredients is gaining speed in our generation (additional components I have purposely omitted for the sake of your stomach).

As some parents exit the vaccination bus, I am a little reluctant to fully exit the means of medical intervention. While researching this topic, I saw the facts written before me. The words in black and white is far more sobering then hearing it from a new parent or soon to be mom that has never experienced the "true" threat of germs. Could I be willingly damaging my children as I turn them over to the doctors and nurses? While I realize that this topic can be controversial, the discussion and thought are worth the time. This is "our" future, "our" families and "our" babies.

Although my generation has numerous resources available to us through the internet, it is hard to decipher what is false and what is fact. We also have never seen first hand the devastation that a virus like polio or rubella can bring. I remember hearing from my grandmothers, while a young girl, stories of swimming scares in the local pool. I saw every day in 5th grade, a teacher walk with a cain brought on by devastation that polio brought to that time. Maybe I trust my grandmother, or maybe I am mislead by the medical profession. My parent's parents accepted that germs were a threat and protected us the only way they knew how with shots, oral medicine on a sugar cube ect. Did they do the right thing?

On one hand we have the health stores, nutritionists, the chiropractors claiming that natural is the way to go. However the pediatricians, the nurses and the medical industry have screaming commercials challenging them non stop. If, my husband and I choose not to adhere to the professionals and one of my boys comes down with a deadly virus that causes damage to them, will we regret the decision to not vaccinate? What way do we choose? Who should we trust? Do I have enough faith in my family's decision that if my child was to be diagnosed with autism (while a linked speculation with vaccinations, the cause) would our choice haunt us for the rest of our lives? A choice of these matters is ours to have!

Join us for an online discussion below. Read Tomorrow.....Living in a VACCINATION NATION: Who will protect our children?, written by local mom, Christine Walls. Read my personal views on this matter as we all make an educated choice on what is right for our families?