Want to do a good deed?

The pro-science, anti-abusing-children-in-the-name-of-pseudoscience crowd is atwitter after a naturopathic quack/childbirth "educator" named Heather Dexter bragged about letting her three children, including a freaking infant FFS, suffer through whooping cough without even once consulting an actual doctor or a hospital or anyone qualified to treat the disease.

The original post she wrote has been taken down, but you can read snippets of it here, here, and here.  The entire post is a sickening display of egocentrism ("Oh, it was so hard for *me* to watch my children cough until they turned blue and vomited!") and a willingness to let innocent kids suffer unnecessarily for the sake of pseudoscience.

A few facts that can come in use for sensible people:

1. Her children wouldn't have gotten sick at all, or would have been less severely ill, had she vaccinated them;
2. If she had sought medical attention quickly enough, the first child to get sick could have received antibiotics, which would have prevented transmission of the disease;
3. Even if the window for prophylactic antibiotics had passed (one the whooping starts, it's too late), the other children could have taken antibiotics for the few weeks the first kid was contagious in order to prevent catching the disease;
4. There are all sorts of therapies the children could have received in the hospital that would have eased their suffering and perhaps shortened the duration of the disease.

Now, what about this good deed I mentioned?  It turns out that this woman has a business page on Facebook.  See, it turns out that, while her children were deathly ill, she continued to see pregnant women and fragile babies.  I think her clients deserve to know that she will knowingly expose them and their newborns to deadly diseases.  If you do, too, hop on by to Earth Mother's Natural Health & Birth Services and give her a 1-star review.  The best part is, she can't delete negative reviews!