1. Obviously the vaccinations are the first. Yes, there are some that are a good idea, but there are bunch that are completely unnecessary and could potentially be harmful. Plus, in nature, our bodies are meant to learn to fight off illness, why are we teaching out newborns' bodies how to NOT do that?
2. Braces. A majority of people I know with kids have been told they need braces. I'd estimate 75% of those people never got their kid the braces and all those kids' teeth are fine. I have really good teeth (straightness wise) and some of those kids who "needed" braces and never got them have better teeth than me! It's all based on "overbite". An overbite is like lower back pain, someone can say it exists and you just have to take their word for it. And it's easy to do because EVERYONE has an overbite. That's the way your teeth are supposed to go. Unless your kid has crooked teeth, and I mean seriously crooked, don't waste your money. And don't waste you money if your kids teeth are a little crooked. There is some value in individuality.
3. The Orthopedic Helmet. This is a new craze I've been hearing pop up a lot lately. Not too long after your baby is born your doctor will say, "oh, your baby's head is misshapen and he needs an Orthopedic Helmet". B-u-l-l-s-h-i-t! Every baby's head is misshapen and that's the way they're supposed to be. Nobody's head is perfectly round. Could you imagine what it would be like if everyone on the planet had a perfectly shaped head and they all looked the same? We could just shave out heads and look like aliens.
The key to the Braces and the Orthopdeic Helmet are that they get you when the child is young enough that the problem hasn't corrected itself. Of course the baby's head is misshapen, it just squeezed between it's mothers legs. But a baby's head will harden and change shape as it grows up. They always suggest the helmet before that. And the "overbite" is another thing that changes as the child grows and it's always suggested to the kid when they are young enough that the growing process isn't done. These doctors know exactly what they're doing and they know that your fear (and your assumption that the doctor is always right) will help them sell you some shit that you don't need. If you walked into a Bestbuy and the salesman told you that you really needed this little elctronic device that you could put on your kid and it would help them stay healthy or in a beauty store they try to sell you an expensive piece of plastic that will help keep your kids' teeth straight, you'd shrug it off as another unnecessary gadget. But if a doctor told you that you needed it to keep your kid healthy or keep their teeth straight, you'd be 10 times more likely to buy it. And they know that.
But the thing that really freaks me out is that these doctors can sell this shit because we as a people have decided that we need to eliminate anything about us that sets us apart from everyone else. Everybody wants to look perfect, but in looking perfect we ultimately will just all look the same. You have a couple crooked teeth, you're head is a little more pointed at the top, you have a birthmark in a visible area. Those are the things that make you YOU.
And where did nature go so wrong that man has had to step in a fix all it's problems? Nature created us with the ability to come in contact with an illness, figure it out and learn to fight it off. But you have to let the human body do that in order for a person to have a strong immune system. Nature made it possible for the baby's head to be soft so it can squeeze out of the mother. It's supposed to be that way. We have decided as a people that nature is wrong and that we can do better, but so far we haven't done anything that even compares to what nature has provided. and every time our cocky asses try, people get sick or get killed.
Besides, do you really want to put you kid through this? This kid would have hated his parents a lot less if his head were out of shape.
