Melb baby dies of whooping cough...

[Inertia]

Have not read every reply so if this has been covered, then just ignore me.

A study in Canada (dealing with serious whooping cough outbreaks) has found that the best protection for newborns is for mum to be vaxed immediately after birth. It takes a week to two weeks (depending on if they were vaxed as a child) for the antibodies to develop. Then they pass that onto their baby in breast milk. So long as they stay bfed, baby is fed pertussis antibodies for 6 months until they finally work their way out of mums system.

But this is the thing, and this is why Vax is a con.

It trains your body to develop antibodies. In most cases this only reduces the severity and duration of the illness. It does not stop it all together. You can still catch it, you can still be contagious. All that is happening is your body is fighting it quicker and more efficiently because it has 'encountered' it before.

That said, I do not think it is my public duty to inject six diseases into my childs body even if they are 'inactive'. They can still get sick because the body is reacting how it will if they get the real disease. That is too much to ask of a 2 month old.

Yes, six in the one needle. NSW uses Infanrix Hexa.

I should probably add as it is probably relevant - I am a delay vaxxer who goes out of her way to find someone who does not use Hexa.