Facebook mom groups are good places to capture where the current culture is on motherhood, parenting, and relationships. Mom groups are the places where the latest TikTok trends are shared and where you can discover what is acceptable among mothers and what is not.

For example, when peeking into a mom group, one will see that gentle parenting is in and seed oils are out. In 2021, an interesting trend appeared — mothers asking each other if they had experienced menstrual cycle differences after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Sure enough, many mothers shared similar experiences. A year later, studies confirmed the suspicions of some of those mothers.

Those suspicions have since expanded. An interesting but controversial trend in mom groups is hesitancy around the CDC’s childhood vaccine schedule. This is what is being discussed in various mom groups:

• Recommendations to pediatricians that will respect a parent’s choice to not vaccinate or is accepting of spacing out vaccines
• Leads on research around the childhood vaccine schedule
• Which vaccines are necessary, and which are not
• Whether or not schools will accept religious exemptions for vaccine requirements

The forcefulness of the push and eventually mandates for the COVID-19 vaccine caused many to not only question that vaccine but to question all vaccines. Before the pandemic, parents who chose to not vaccinate their children were labeled anti-vaxxers and accused of bad parenting. Now that many have seen the negative side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine, they at least understand and maybe even relate to the “anti-vaxxer” parent.

An analysis published on PubMed in 2021 discusses vaccines and sudden infant death using VAERS report data from 1990-2019.

A couple of highlights from that analysis: “Infant deaths post-vaccination are often misclassified as [sudden infant death syndrome] SIDS or suffocation in bed.” And, “Of 2605 infant deaths reported to VAERS from 1990 through 2019, 58% clustered within 3 days post-vaccination and 78.3% occurred within 7 days post-vaccination, confirming that infant deaths tend to occur in temporal proximity to vaccine administration.”

This analysis seems to corroborate the findings of one former police detective, who said of the 250 SIDS cases she investigated over several years that roughly half were within two days of a vaccination, and more than two-thirds were within seven days.

The analysis also seems to back up the suspicion that a mother in Maine had when her baby died within 34 hours of visiting their pediatrician. Journalist Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., writes: “A toxicology report shows that a new mom in Maine was right. Her baby, Sawyer, died when he was just eight weeks and six days old, just 34 hours after being vaccinated.”

For so long, the childhood vaccine schedule went without being questioned. Many mothers have learned that vaccines have been added to the schedule, but their child’s health has not gotten better. In fact, in many cases it has worsened.

Pediatricians will now have to answer more questions around vaccines. One can only hope that their answers are respectful and honest.