You’re a mother, holding this perfect and tiny human being in your arms, that you nurtured and grew for 9 months. Not a drop of alcohol passed your lips, nor a single headache pill. You were pregnant, so the doctors told you not to even take an aspirin. You spent the months taking your vitamins, avoiding smokey atmospheres and worrying about traffic fumes.
Yet when your baby is 8 weeks old, barely bigger than he was as a foetus inside you, you will be expected to consent to him being injected with 8 different viruses and bacteria and a cocktail of different chemicals and solvents in order to ‘protect’ him from disease and secure his health.
By the time he is 13 months old, he will have been given 50 vaccines (51 when they introduce chickenpox vaccine). This is because the number of injections is not the same as the number of vaccines, for instance, MMR is one jab but three vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella. Prevnar is one jab but seven vaccines for seven types of pneumonia.
