*EDIT There are many emails, tweets and comments so I”ll edit to add that we do not have fluoride in our water. So, Butterlump gets no fluoride at all.
**EDIT EDIT Also, Aaron’s Pediatrician has recommended and prescribed fluoride drops.
To keep a long, ranty story short, Jonathan and I are torn on a couple of things regarding our little baby butterlump. It’s shocking that Jonathan and I in disagreement about something, huh?
Right now the debate is giving him fluoride drops daily.
I am all for it, Jonathan is against it.
It’s really quite odd that I am the liberal of the family but my uber conservative husband is almost always the one holding up the hippie-tree-hugging herbal/alternative treatment as the end all be all.
Seriously…it’s weird.
Jonathan doesn’t think that flouride is meant to be ingested.
I want to add it to the city’s water supply (and voted for that but was shot down).
I used fluoride drops with my first and did not with my second. I know that the genetics are different as James is from my first marriage but seriously, his teeth are MUCH better than his brother’s. And I haven’t ever noticed any negative fall out from them.
Gah.
Does anyone else struggle with this? Disagree? Pro or con?
I am not staking my cross on any hill to die here, I am really looking for information and input. I don’t make important decisions just based on the Internet but it is a HUGE resource of information and thought for me.
So, while I don’t know if it will change my mind or not (and I guarantee it will NOT change Jonathan’s. Heh.) I might find how much of a deal this is to me with more discussion.
So…whaddya think, peeps?
And while you’re pondering…Butterlump turned 8-months-old yesterday!
Where has the time gone?
I am totally blown away by people commenting about how they are EXCITED about fluoride in the water, and one woman wanting to have PROZAC added to the water. Have you people all lost your minds? On my water quality report, it states Fluoride is a contaminant, an additive from aluminum and fertilizer processing. All you parents who give your children fluoride drops and spring water with added fluoride for babies SHOULD Be LOCKED UP IN JAIL WITH THE RAPISTS AND PEDOFILES FOR LIFE. You people really blow my mind. But hey go ahead, if you enjoy consuming industrial toxic waste. Yea, go make your children be experimental guinie pigs. What fools you people are.
FLUORIDE FOR BABIES! Are you insane? Think about it. Babies teeth are going to fall out anyway. But HEY, if you want to give your babies industrial toxic waste from aluminum and fertilizer processing, then by all means destroy your babies future and lower their IQ. I am AMAZED at the level of absolute stupidity some of you people have. You give new meaning to the word SUPER IDIOT. LOL Fluoride? If you like eating chemical waste. Morons…
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This has really helpful, new information from the CDC regarding fluoride.
http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/fact_sheets/cwf_qa.htm
LOL you actually want fluoride in your water?
Are you not aware of the damages it causes? Your bones, organs, and enzymes are all being harmed every time you ingest factory-made, toxin full, industrial fluoride. (the fluoride you’re talking about)