I don't want the DTaP shot for my son, who is due in a week. I don't want this because of a general aversion to the vaccine boom of the past few years, and because I had a shot back in 2006 where, as a 200-pound man well into my twenties, it made me acutely sick for days.
There is a 0.00% chance I'm going to let them inject my 7 or 8 pound baby with this cocktail which nearly killed me.
We told our doctor this. She is a resident from China, and was confused and ran and got her boss. Now, I'm not a wilting flower....but let me tell you that her boss, a woman about 40, behaved in a manner that could only be described as threatening and bullying. She hovered right over us and talked to us about how there has been an "epidemic" of whooping cough (i.e. - one death in Michigan since 1970, even as the vaccination rate has increased). I'll admit that this unnerved me. She ordered the nurse to go and print out some "proof" about how necessary the vaccine was (which was just a stock form from the CDC).
Still, with our hearts racing against their intimidation tactics, me and the mother stood firm, "Okay. No thanks."
This was several months ago, and even though they mentioned it in subsequent weeks, we thought that the issue was settled. But then, the last time we went in for a check-up, the nurse was reading over the arrival chart and made passing mention of how they were going to inject the baby with the DTaP after delivery because the mother refused it during pregnancy.
We don't have the money for a midwife or homebirth, and the mother (my girlfriend) is very, very reluctant to switch doctors this late in the pregnancy. So, the baby is almost certainly going to be born with these same doctors, and at their hospital.
I'm going to try and order them to put a note that there will be NO DTaP shot given on her chart. However, because of the bullying (this has stretched out over three visits), I am very worried that they might try to sneak it in or, God forbid, call the CPS and have them kidnap our baby.
So I need to have a plan to prevent the newborn from getting this shot, which also will not instigate all sorts of attorney's fees or the hospital claiming child abuse or whatever.
Any advice would be very much appreciated. We don't have much money, and the baby is due any day now (the 19th).
TL;DR
I need to know how to prevent the hospital from injecting my newborn with the DTaP shot if they try after childbirth.
There is a 0.00% chance I'm going to let them inject my 7 or 8 pound baby with this cocktail which nearly killed me.
We told our doctor this. She is a resident from China, and was confused and ran and got her boss. Now, I'm not a wilting flower....but let me tell you that her boss, a woman about 40, behaved in a manner that could only be described as threatening and bullying. She hovered right over us and talked to us about how there has been an "epidemic" of whooping cough (i.e. - one death in Michigan since 1970, even as the vaccination rate has increased). I'll admit that this unnerved me. She ordered the nurse to go and print out some "proof" about how necessary the vaccine was (which was just a stock form from the CDC).
Still, with our hearts racing against their intimidation tactics, me and the mother stood firm, "Okay. No thanks."
This was several months ago, and even though they mentioned it in subsequent weeks, we thought that the issue was settled. But then, the last time we went in for a check-up, the nurse was reading over the arrival chart and made passing mention of how they were going to inject the baby with the DTaP after delivery because the mother refused it during pregnancy.
We don't have the money for a midwife or homebirth, and the mother (my girlfriend) is very, very reluctant to switch doctors this late in the pregnancy. So, the baby is almost certainly going to be born with these same doctors, and at their hospital.
I'm going to try and order them to put a note that there will be NO DTaP shot given on her chart. However, because of the bullying (this has stretched out over three visits), I am very worried that they might try to sneak it in or, God forbid, call the CPS and have them kidnap our baby.
So I need to have a plan to prevent the newborn from getting this shot, which also will not instigate all sorts of attorney's fees or the hospital claiming child abuse or whatever.
Any advice would be very much appreciated. We don't have much money, and the baby is due any day now (the 19th).
TL;DR
I need to know how to prevent the hospital from injecting my newborn with the DTaP shot if they try after childbirth.