Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published on Sept. 26, 2017.

Story at a glance: 

  • Pregnant women have been told to get an increasing number of vaccinations, even though there’s a shocking lack of studies to confirm the safety for mother and child.
  • In 2009, reports of miscarriage following receipt of the pandemic H1N1 swine flu vaccine (pH1N1) started emerging. A 2017 study also found that women who had received a pH1N1-containing flu vaccine two years in a row were more likely to suffer miscarriage within the following 28 days.
  • It has always been a principle of medicine that one should not vaccinate pregnant women, except in extreme cases, because the risk to the baby developing in the womb is too high. However, this policy has been blatantly violated.
  • On Aug. 28, 2017, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended that newborns who weigh at least 2,000 grams (4.4 pounds) should receive their first dose of hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.

Most pregnant women know to abstain from alcohol, tobacco and other obvious toxins to protect the child growing in their womb, but what about vaccines?

Pregnant women have been told to get an increasing number of vaccinations, even though there’s a shocking lack of studies to confirm the safety for mother and child.

As noted by Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center in her 2013 article, “Vaccination During Pregnancy: Is it Safe?“:

“Although since the 1970s public health officials have recommended influenza vaccinations for pregnant women in the second or third trimester, relatively few obstetricians promoted the vaccine until the past decade when, in 2006, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) strengthened recommendations that all pregnant women, healthy or not, should get a flu shot in any trimester.

“Current vaccine recommendations are endorsed by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and other medical trade associations.

“With these recommendations, the time-honored rule of avoiding any potential toxic exposure that might interfere with the normal development of the fetus has been suspended and replaced with an assumption that vaccination during pregnancy is safe.”

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