Speaker: Yesmine holmes
Please explain why you find it important to vaccinate your child/children.
Yesmine holmes: I think it's important to vaccinate your kids because I know for me, I had my son at a time where RSV was really high for like, I think it was pregnant women and newborns and elderly um folks and he was born around that time where he can easily fall ill if he was ever to get in contact with someone who had RSV. So um when he was a newborn, he has got, he, he had got the shot. So that helps him to like if he is getting in contact with a person who with RSV, he won't get as sick and he wouldn't get as ill as he would if he didn't get that vaccine. And I just think that goes for all the vaccines. Like, um you know, when they from, when they newborns, they get all those shots until, you know, they get to a certain age where they don't need as many shots. And not only that, I think, you know, if your kid kid is going to public schools, they have to meet those requirements to make sure that they are healthy, to play sports or anything in that nature.
Why should parents and caregivers feel comfortable taking their children to get vaccinated?
Yesmine holmes: I think caregivers should feel comfortable because um you know, you have doctors that can give you like a breakdown of every vaccine your kids is getting. Um because they do have like a very difficult name and you know, the doctor can kind of break it down and tell you like, hey, this is for, you know, his eyes to make him stronger. I I don't really know but um I know there's a couple of vaccines that my newborn has to get and I just was like, he's so little like I don't want to give him all that shot. And the doctor reassured me like, hey, he's fine, you know, um we put drops in his eyes, you know, to make sure his eyes is ok and they good and you know, like just like being knowledge on, on the vaccines that's going into your kids. Like me personally, I never gave my kids flu shots, but I wasn't educated enough to know like, hey mom, um some kids, even after they get their regular shots, they get sick like my my um newborn had to get his newborn, his three month shots or something like that. And I was asking the doctor, I was like, well, if you get, when you get shots, is he gonna feel a little sick? Is he gonna be? She was like, um, possibly, you know, he's getting a lot of shots and, um, sometimes they might feel drowsy. So I think that goes for anything like the flu. Um, I was like, you know, I didn't want to get my kids to get really sick and, and it was, you know, basically telling me, like, um, you know, they're gonna be either ill in that moment and then, like, it's better, like, if they was to get the flu, they wouldn't get as sick as if they was to get, have no flu shot. So I end up just like, ok, forget it. I'm giving my kids the flu shot because everything was at an all time high. And I know as a single mother four, I just wanna eliminate the sickness as possible.
Who or what motivates you to vaccinate your child/children?
Yesmine holmes: I think my kids motivate me to um to want them to get the, get vaccinated because uh I want my kids to be as healthy as possible. I want them to, you know, be able to get into any sport at school or anything at school and not being held back because they don't get their vaccine vaccines. So, um yeah, I would say and just me being a mother and me being concerned, um I would say, uh I will want, I want my kids to get vaccinated and it's ok and it don't make me a bad parent because I choose to get my kids vaccinated. So I think, yeah, my kids and myself motivate me.
