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I’d thought you’d wanted to hear FReeper or near FReeper testimonies. But if you’re taking others, too, I have some for you. This is what a woman on a fitness board wrote me in response to a note I sent her:

Within the first hour of my 2nd dose, my right index finger and thumb went numb and vibrated and got freezing cold like intense raynauds, and in the center of my index finger was a blood blister/spot of blood pooled under the skin. The numbness seemed to be radiating out from it. THAT freaked me out but went away. I refrained from breastfeeding my 9 month old that day just to be safe, but gave in 15 hours later because he really wanted to breastfeed.

The next day i breastfed again and he developed hives as I was breastfeeding him. I called the pediatrician, and he said it was probably nothing and go on and continue breastfeeding. So i breastfed him again and he got more hives.

I had seen a vaers report of a breastfed 5 month old who got a rash after his mother’s second dose, and that baby died the next day with elevated liver enzymes and low platelets. So i took my son to the ER. We were there all night. He had slightly elevated liver enzymes and slightly high platelets. They let us go home.

I didn’t breastfeed for a week after that. I tried it the next week and he got hives again, although lesser hives.

I am able to breastfeed now and he doesn’t get hives, so whatever it was is either gone or he’s adjusted to it, BUT I DID NOT LIKE IT AT ALL and that is NOT NORMAL for vaccines to have that affect through breastmilk. Nobody has any explanation. The ER doctor believed it was the vaccine. I don’t like it and I have no idea what I will do if they decide we need boosters. I’m just praying we don’t need boosters.