flu vaccine
I did end up getting the h1n1 vaccine. I talked to the midwives a lot about it, and to a pediatrician, and I researched enough to feel that, while perhaps I didn’t make the best decision in getting it (who knows?), I most likely didn’t make a fatal one. Even if it does effect the fetus, I’m lucky that my fetus is viable right now — i am past the phase where everything integral is forming out of almost nothing.
But as I was researching, I was directed to this pretty great article from the Atlantic Monthly about the inefficacy of flu vaccines. It’s not about h1n1, which is a virus-specific vaccine. It’s about the flu vaccines that come out each year that try and fail to protect people from what they project will be the big flus of the year. I just love reading smart articles where common knowledge is cracked open and questioned rigorously and my head gets to spin.
