My baby, full term and weighing a little over 7 pounds, was sent to NICU after a difficult birth, low Apgar scores, and quick (45 seconds) resuscitation. The paperwork to waive the HepB vaccination had been signed well before. She was not declared "stable" until about 3.5 hours after birth -- but at about 1.5 hours after birth, she was g…
My baby, full term and weighing a little over 7 pounds, was sent to NICU after a difficult birth, low Apgar scores, and quick (45 seconds) resuscitation. The paperwork to waive the HepB vaccination had been signed well before. She was not declared "stable" until about 3.5 hours after birth -- but at about 1.5 hours after birth, she was given the HepB vaccine in spite of the waiver. We were not informed of this. We discovered it when we requested her hospital records several months later.
She was also put on IV antibiotics for 3 days as a "preventive" measure because she had passed meconium, though none showed in her lungs on scope or x-ray.
She was one of the "different from the beginning" babies and was eventually diagnosed autistic. The first doctor to bring up the possibility of autism (a psychiatrist who specialized in the treatment of autism) told me, "MANY babies given antibiotics at birth become autistic." This is because of the disruption of normal development of healthy gut microbiome. (See Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride's work on the gut-brain connection in autism.)
But I believe the neurotoxic and immune-dysregulating effects of the huge aluminum dose in the HepB vaccine can also play a role in the development of autism in the babies who are eventually described as "autistic from birth" or "autistic, and different from the beginning."
My baby, full term and weighing a little over 7 pounds, was sent to NICU after a difficult birth, low Apgar scores, and quick (45 seconds) resuscitation. The paperwork to waive the HepB vaccination had been signed well before. She was not declared "stable" until about 3.5 hours after birth -- but at about 1.5 hours after birth, she was given the HepB vaccine in spite of the waiver. We were not informed of this. We discovered it when we requested her hospital records several months later.
She was also put on IV antibiotics for 3 days as a "preventive" measure because she had passed meconium, though none showed in her lungs on scope or x-ray.
She was one of the "different from the beginning" babies and was eventually diagnosed autistic. The first doctor to bring up the possibility of autism (a psychiatrist who specialized in the treatment of autism) told me, "MANY babies given antibiotics at birth become autistic." This is because of the disruption of normal development of healthy gut microbiome. (See Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride's work on the gut-brain connection in autism.)
But I believe the neurotoxic and immune-dysregulating effects of the huge aluminum dose in the HepB vaccine can also play a role in the development of autism in the babies who are eventually described as "autistic from birth" or "autistic, and different from the beginning."