Bethie83

First of all when your doctor tells you to bring your child to the hospital and you are being watched by children's services, you should bring them in. Second of all don't tell the nurse that your two year old who doesn't know how to chew foods due to the fact that you don't feed him (children's services picked the kid up and found only two cans of food in the whole home) that he ate half a granola bar and show me the other half but when I watched you give him a vienna sausage he couldn't chew it and spit it out of the floor. Don't call me and tell me your kid has a temperature and when I ask what it is say, "I don't know, I don't have a thermometer." Don't call the hotline for sick kids and ask me to help you with your homework.

You work in ER at the moment? We get alot of kids in our ER, do you see much of them there? If you really are thinking of changing jobs, have you thought about joining a Children's Hospital PRN that way you could stay at your current job and also find out if going there full time is what you really want to do. Or even call your Children's Hospital and see if it is possible to just come and job shadow a fellow nurse on the floor of choice. Good luck!

I have done some research on this myself. I don't believe this is true at all. Approved pediatric sites have done various amounts of studies on this subject. Since everyone is blaming it on the MMR vaccine given at 12 months they did trial groups of kids who received the vaccines, kids who didn't, and kids who had the MMR separated and given at three different times in a period of time and it was shown that there was no evidence of MMR causing autism. I personally would rather my infant son take a very small chance of this being true and getting autism verus not receiving them and falling ill to something that I could have prevented. And please if you decide not to vaccinate keep your kids away from my baby seeing as how he is only 5 months and isn't old enough to have certain vaccines and just exposed him to it. (Sorry this is what upsets me more than anything.)