I Wanted Another Baby. Then The Vaccine Guidelines Changed.
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"How can I even consider having another baby now?"
My daughter turned 3 in October, the magical age when friends and family (even perfect strangers) assume you’re ready to try again. And so they ask, “When will you have another child?”
Please, stop asking.
Like so many others, I was horrified when I learned on Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had reversed its longstanding recommendation of a key vaccine for all newborns. The vaccine advisory committee ― whose members were handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an unapologetic vaccine critic ― chose to ignore decades of proven science and voted to recommend the Hepatitis B vaccine only to newborns whose mothers had tested positive for the virus.
How can I even consider having another baby now?
Hepatitis B is common (more than 2.4 million people in the U.S. have it), and it is easily transmitted. It can spread, undetected, through toys, surfaces, even the tiniest exchange of bodily fluids. Toddlers, like mine, who attend day care, can come in contact with the virus without parents even knowing. And this virus can cause liver problems, cancer, even death. No baby is a match for that.
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