Why I Chose the Dr. Sears Vaccine Method

Why I Chose the Dr. Sears Vaccine Method 

Monday, May 7, 2018

During my birthing class, I learned so much about vaccines ( the benefits, advantages, disadvantages, ingredients etc). This is a very sensitive topic for parents and the argument never stop.
I started to research and choose the best and right way for our family. At first I was going the route of not vaccinating our daughter but then with the benefits over weights the non benefits I figured to spread out the vaccine and that’s when Dr. Sears came in Dr. Sears Vaccine Book. Babies are so young and putting so much in them is not the right way to go. At some vaccine appointment a child is injected with 3 or more vaccines on the spot.

And unfortunately, when you look at vaccine books on the market, you’ll see they’re for the most part very anti-vaccine. They only tell all the dangers and risks of vaccines, only that side of the story.
You get to take all the vaccine with the Dr.Sears plan it’s just an alternative vaccine schedule versus the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] schedule.
I for one with a lot of parents questioning the CDC vaccine schedule. Its too overloaded. He created his alternative vaccine schedule that allows parents to go ahead and vaccinate, simply in a more gradual manner.

Let’s take a look at the two different schedules. One of the main differences that the CDC schedule dictates is they suggest the hepatitis B vaccine be given the day a baby’s born, one month later, and then six months later. Now, if you look at hepatitis B, it’s a sexually transmitted disease. The only way a baby can catch it is through blood or body-fluid exposure, and that’s extremely unlikely to happen for any baby or young child in the United States.
He suggest that parents do a hepatitis B vaccine when a child’s more of a preschool age, where he or she is going to be entering school and be running around with a lot of other kids, and there could be some blood or body-fluid exposures in those kinds of situation. The next point on the vaccine schedule where he differ [from] the CDC schedule is what to do at 2, 4 and 6 months of age. The CDC groups six vaccines all together at 2 months, 4 months and 6 months, and they recommend that pediatricians give all these vaccines in this three-dose series to babies. I think that’s what a lot of parents like myself are worried about.

What he do instead is to give two vaccines at a time, at 2 months, 4 months and 6 months. He also give two of the vaccines that I’m skipping on alternative months: 3 months, 5 months and 7 months and is avoiding a big overload.  I feel that babies will experience fewer vaccine reactions; I think babies’ bodies can handle them better. Their immune system can handle them better that way, and I think a lot of parents simply feel more safe about that kind of approach.
What he does on his schedule is take the most serious diseases and he make sure vaccinating for those right away for babies. He don’t want to delay any vaccine that could protect a baby from a very potentially life-threatening or very common serious illness. And what those illnesses are that I focus on are whooping cough, or pertussis, and rotavirus. Those are two very serious illnesses that I vaccinate babies at 2 months, 4 months and 6 months.
My personally advice is that parents do their research and purchase a Dr. Sears vaccine book, discuss with other parents and so forth. Please don’t take my word for it, please!! I am only doing what’s best for my family. Also my advice is that you find the right pediatrician. Dr. Sears Pediatrician Near you who follow the Dr. Sears method in your area(not all pediatricians would work with you), remember most of them work for corporations. I was blessed enough to find the right pediatrician ( Vaccine Friendly Pediatricians. The downside to this method is that parents would do a lot of visits to their pediatrician office ( every month 2,3,4,5,6,..............)since the method is spread out (for me I don’t mind going often or driving).

Lastly, some experts might question changing the vaccine schedule, or doing an approach that’s outside of the CDC’s schedule, where in fact these vaccines are studied in different time intervals and given apart from each other instead of grouped together. They’re studied that way initially, in the initial safety research. The studies that are down to show that vaccines are effective are often done isolated from the regular schedule. So we do know these vaccines work just as well when they’re given staggered or separated from other vaccines as they do when they’re grouped all together.
What isn’t studied separately is the safety profile. We don’t know whether or not it’s safer or more dangerous to group vaccines together versus spreading them apart.

For Dr. Sears, it’s a logical approach. It makes common sense that giving fewer vaccines at a time should create fewer reactions, but they haven’t researched that to prove whether or not that’s true. I think it’s an approach that parents feel safer about, and he would like to see the CDC do some safety research that compares a staggered, spread-out vaccine schedule and compares the rates of reactions and severe side effects to the current CDC schedule.