Once we covered my suggestions regarding the C-section, I asked her what she was planning to do about vaccines.  I explained that they will give the babies the Vitamin K without even asking her.  Then I mentioned that she could wait on the Hep B vaccine until the 2-month check up.  I find that it’s better for me to go slow and not dive right into my never vaccinate your child rant.  I explained what happened with my son and how he suffered two ischemic strokes hours after a Hib shot that was administered at his 18 month well visit.  She was definitely taking all the information in and processing it.  She even admitted to not giving vaccines any thought at all yet.  This made it especially important that we were speaking.  As we got off the phone, I offered to send her a copy of my book How to Prevent Autism.  She was very appreciative of that and my taking the time to speak with her.  I told her that it is not just about autism, but preventing all chronic health conditions that kids are experiencing at epidemic rates across the board.  I received a text with her address moments after we hung up the phone.

A few days later, I was on Facebook and noticed a post from a mom that was in the NICU with her baby and she warning other parents to be careful about getting the 2-month shots.  Her child was on a ventilator and even had a feeding tube inserted, which she said occurred right after being given her vaccines.  I am not sure what compelled me but I copied the post and sent it to this new mom who was in the hospital.  She had delivered her babies by cesarean just the day before.  My husband had told me that everything went great.  Well this mom wrote me back that one of the babies was born weighing only 3 pounds and the other had breathing difficulties.  They were both still in the NICU.  So much for “everything is fine” I thought.  My husband is notoriously really bad at relaying some of the finer important details.  In any case, she and I went back and forth a little bit about the Heb B vaccine.  She had read somewhere that it can be transmitted by bodily fluids from a caregiver.  I sent her the CDC’s own website explaining that you would need to use someone’s toothbrush or razor and that causal contact was not really a problem.  She responded that they will have plenty of time to research vaccines before the 2-month well visit and asked me which ones they will try to give the babies at that check up.  I provided her with a list of the eight vaccines and suggested that she do research on all of them.  I was relieved to hear that she had not planned to let the hospital administer the Hep B  vaccine.

We ended the texting exchange and I went back to watching the movie I had muted in order to concentrate on helping her again for those 15 minutes.  The next morning I updated a friend of mine who had offered me a couple links to send this mom including the CDC’s website about how Hepatitis B is transmitted between people.  Then I proceeded to think out loud texting my friend wondering if the Dtap this mother received at 33 weeks had arrested one of the babies growth and may have caused breathing difficulties in the other.  My friend and I went back and forth about how it may have contributed.  This is what us AUTISM MOMS spend our time thinking about!  We wondered if more babies are having trouble right out of the shoot given the increase in vaccines to pregnant women.  My friend sent me another CDC link listing the 10-15 vaccines that are indicated they can be given to a pregnant women.  I added how ingenious it is of Big Pharma to vaccinate pregnant women, so there is no longer a line in the sand that you could say they were developing just fine before the vaccines.

Then I told my friend that I thought we just saved one child’s life today.  Those babies were in no shape to get any vaccine especially one with as much aluminum as the Hep B vaccine.

So for a few minutes today I feel like I made a difference, but wish it could be much more widespread.  For now, I will have to be happy with just one child at a time or in this mom’s case two!

Dara Berger is the author of the book titled How to Prevent Autism. She is also a documentary filmmaker who is currently working on a documentary film about how to prevent autism that is based on her book.  Dara recently completed the Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s health coach certificate program, which she hopes to use to help other families prevent chronic illness and autism in their children.