
Shanelle Cartwright, the wife of NRL football player Bryce Cartwright, has shared her decision not to vaccinate her children.
The 20-year-old, who married the Gold Coast Titans player last year, spoke about the couple’s controversial parenting methods in a Q&A on her Instagram page.
Shanelle, who is expecting the birth of her second child in the coming days, said that both her one-year-old son Koa and her second child will not be vaccinated.
“He’s not vaccinated,” Shanelle said of her son Koa.
“None of our babes will be.”
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Responding to another question, Shanelle explained that she first became part of the controversial anti-vax movement after “lots of research”.
And although her husband was initially against the idea, he soon changed his mind after some convincing.
“I remember he [Bryce] was so defensive when I first brought it up and got angry at me for even suggesting that we shouldn’t vaccinate,” the mother said.
“And then he read a package insert and a few pages of one of Dr Suzanne Humphries’ books and saw vaccines under a different light. And now we’re here.”

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I'm surprised. Bryce can read? He certainly can't and doesn't tackle.
Last winter my son had a virus and one night, after I lay awake watching him closely for hours, around 4am I decided he possibly needed respiratory support, so I took him to Emergency. Doctors checked him thoroughly & determined his oxygen saturation were low, as I thought. He stayed at hospital a week on low flow oxygen & nasal prongs, given ventolin regularly. I wonder what this couple's - Bryce & Shanelle's - approach would be in the situation? No amount of breast milk will fix that.