Growing up in the 1960s, children whose parents were Christian Scientists were given a religious exemption from vaccinations. (It was up to the parents whether they chose to use that exemption). My brother and I were never vaccinated. Later, my brother joined the Navy and was vaccinated for malaria. He became quite ill from the vaccine, but even so he has been very healthy throughout his life. As children and teenagers my brother and I rarely missed a day of school. We were also exempt from attending health classes, so I didn’t grow up being indoctrinated. I was quite healthy as an adult, but the first time I experienced health issues was actually due to the chemicals in food. And this is how I learned about alternate healing methods. Even though I was 39 when I was pregnant with my daughter, I only went to a doctor twice. Once in the US and once after moving to London, England when I was 6 months along. While I was at the doctor’s office (1997) I noticed signs on the wall warning about vaccines for children under 2 and 1/2 years old. The signs talked about an Asian country where children under the age of two and a half were not vaccinated and where there were no cases of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). I was really surprised to see this information posted prominently in a major hospital! My daughter was born at Guys Hospital underwater with a midwife in attendance. She never cried and vaccinations were never even suggested. When Amelia was about nine years old, she was cut on a rusty barbed-wire fence, and I took her to the doctor for a tetanus shot, because somehow I had come to believe in the myth of lockjaw. After that, Amelia began having problems with her lungs, but I never associated it with the tetanus shot. We were living in Maui, Hawaii and I discovered that the public school was giving her milk at lunch time. I asked them to give her water instead of milk , and they refused, saying that I had to get a written permission slip from a doctor to make them stop giving her milk! Unbelievable!