by Augustina Orsino
Like millions of parents before her, Natalie Steffen was faced with her children receiving pediatric vaccines starting after birth and during subsequent well child visits. This story is one mother’s journey to exempt her children from further vaccinations.
Natalie gave birth to her firstborn daughter Skylar in October 2004. Skylar received all the shots on the schedule, starting with the hepatitis B vaccine, given within the first 12 hours of life. Skylar reacted to the vaccines, but her parents didn’t know their daughter was suffering side effects and adverse reactions to them.
This is How the Nightmare Began
After her first hep B shot, Skylar immediately began to suffer from colic. Up until age one, she would cry every night at the same time for about an hour and a half before she went to sleep. She had horrible night terrors from age 2-4 years before these finally ceased.
When Natalie had Skylar, she had no idea vaccine injuries were prevalent and never thought to question this link…
Thank you Natalie, for sharing an inside picture into the life of an autistic child, and assisting others to make more informed choices.
I appreciate your honesty, and for clarifying that you, like many parents, love and will stand by your child every step, but if you had known the risks of vaccines, then you would not have put your son at risk in the first place.
Thank you for your humility, and educating others that do not know the inside picture of autism. You are a hero among women.
God be with you.
Your sister in truth, jen