What Baby immunisations Are GENUINELY essential
I´m trying to find some impartial advice on immunisations for our 2 week old baby.
My girlfriend is, quite rightly, against immunisations that aren't necessary based on the odds and statistics. We had our baby in a natural birthing clinic, with a water birth with no medication whatsoever. Naturally the staff there aren't big fans of immunisations, as there are all about natural approaches, and gave multiple reasons for us to consider. If you ask a medical doctor in a hospital, they will give you the total opposite answer. So what is the TRUTH. Based on the odds of a baby/child/adult becoming infected with the different diseases/illnesses without innoculation, weighed up against the very possible side effects of having these injections themselves, which are highly recommended and which really not essential based on the odds of contracting the illness. We have been led to believe over the years that it is very dangerous for our children not to immunise, but how much of that is tradition or influence from the billion dollar pharmaceutical companies that possibly call the shots. Statistically speaking, living in a modern,clean, western european country, not asia or africa, what are the chances of my child getting these illnesses without the jabs. Also what are the differences between giving him jabs at the ´required´ times, and later when he is perhaps a toddler. I´m looking for unbiased oppinions and facts. If the odds, based on our lifestyle, are minimal that the baby will come into contact with these diseases, then I probably won't put my baby through the ordeal, or perhaps do them at a later date. I´m open minded but, I know how the world rotates, and won't subject my child to the injections based on tradition, influence on doctors by the drug companies, fear of sueing by hospitals, or simply because everyone else is doing it. Looking forward to some well needed ANSWERS