Choices, Choices

I gave my brother some unsolicited advice today and I was reminded of how righteous I can be. [lol]

He and his wife are having a baby boy, their first. I had already given his wife my ‘birth story’ in a super-small-nut-shell, so as not to scare her off. [ha] I did leave it open, so if she were curious enough, she could ask more about it. Basically, alternative births as I had an underwater homebirth. She has not asked more about it since.

Because my overly righteous tendencies did not make me any friends, I have learned to curb it at best. The two pieces of advice I gave my brother were, note passive tense… I hope you do not vaccinate, or circumcise. I included some info from the National Vaccine Information Center. My point simply being.. be informed. Don’t allow procedures because that’s what ‘they’ say to do.

It hit me as I wrote this that I don’t really care what he does. What I care about is that he take the time to be informed. To be able to argue or even state clearly why he chose what he chose. I realized that I felt complelled to write him these things. I can’t not say these things. This is important to me…
to remind people that life is about choices… know you have them.