to vaccinate or not? that is the question!

To vaccinate or not? That is the question in my household right now. I love the fall & cool weather but hate the flu season. I have this internal debate with myself every year about getting Karly the flu shot. I have never gotten the vaccination & neither has my husband and both of us have only had the flu once in our entire lives. I have some issues with vaccinations, they freak me out. I know, I know they are to keep us safe & healthy... blah blah blah, I just don't buy into it all. I think a lot of our health care is solely government driven and I don't like it. I am SOO thankful to have a wonderful pediatrician that I can trust whole heartedly!  Anyway, ever year we have this debate in our house- I mean really, it should not be such a difficult decision, but it is to us. So, yes, I am a research junkie-- what can I say my parents paid thousand & thousands of dollars for me to be good at it :) lol. That education is not going to waste! Today in my little quest to figure out what we should do. I started just researching vitamins & supplements to help prevent the flu... We are very big on natural remedies in this household and came across some articles using an increase in vitamin D to prevent influenza, which lead me to another article that I found very interesting & informative. I felt pressed to share, incase I have other mom & dad friends who are questioning the dreaded shot as well.
http://www.naturalnews.com/026921_Vitamin_D_influenza_swine_flu.html
So long for now, I am off to buy stock in vitamin D! Oh and I am so glad I just bought my coconut milk yesterday (the vanilla is awesome!- thanks for the tip Trace!) to start boosting our immune systems! Here's to staying healthy the natural way...