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I'm sure it will require a lot of research and possibly driving longer to get to the Dr. then one normally would go. I have used quite a few pediatricians in CT and while I don't give all 5 shots at once, (I have them spaced out over a couple months instead) I do give my children all shots except for flu.
All the pediatricians I have used had vaccinating as a requirement to attend the practice. They would allow you to delay vax, but you could not just avoid vaccination all together.
Washington State, Wisconsin, and Vermont all have ongoing pertussis epidemics due to parents declining to immunize their children. Perhaps you would have better luck in fitting into a community there, where your children will have a better opportunity to experience contagious childhood diseases, such as Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Pertussis, and Diphtheria in the holistic way that Nature intended, rather than suffer the potential consequences of immunization. And of course, when your unimmunized child infects an infant too young to have been immunized, you will feel a smaller proportion of the responsibility if you live in an area with a high proportion of immunization-refusers, since so many there choose not to immunize their children.
There are myriad intenet sites where immunization-refusers connect with each other. I'm sure they have a directory of pediatricians who will allow immunization-refusing parents in their waiting room, potentially infecting infants too young to be immunized, and who do not mind the inherent risks of caring for children who may contract fatal diseases that are now virtually unseen in first world countries, such as Hib bacterial meningitis and Strep Pneumo bacterial meningitis. Try homeschooling websites, religious fundamentalist websites (of course, some refuse to use the internet, too, so that may be limiting), immunization-refuser websites.
Perhaps you would have better luck in fitting into a community there, where your children will have a better opportunity to experience contagious childhood diseases, such as Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Pertussis, and Diphtheria in the holistic way that Nature intended
Aren't most of the diseases we immunize for nearly wiped out in this area anyway?
There is some nasty stuff in vaccines. As a parent, I would vaccinate - but sparingly.
The only disease wiped out worldwide is smallpox , which only exists in medical labs.
Polio has been wiped out in the Western hemisphere from vaccination but can be brought in by travelers from the rest of the world. Thus, still very much a danger to those not immunized..
All other so-called childhood diseases most certainly still exist. Vaccination has caused the death risk from some of them to go down, such as chickenpox, but they are still there. The death risk has gone down only because of vaccinations.
All it takes is for one of these diseases to meet an unvaccinated child and we're back to square one and serious implications among those with no immunity and potentially a infection among those partially immunized. Hence, the pertussis epidemics in various states.
Well, while not vaccinating at all might be a bad idea, I think you can still be selective. Weighing the risks of the disease vs. exposing children to the chemicals in vaccines is important. I'd hope there's a middle ground somewhere.
The reason so many of these diseases were virtually "wiped out" is because of vaccines. Not vaccinating children put others at risk, especially infants. Most school systems require vaccinations to be up to date, so if you as a parent make that choice, you may need to look into home schooling. As for a pediatrician, I do not know any that see children do not vaccinate at all.
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