The risks are about the same as being killed by being hit by lightening. This "epidemic" the press has been screaming about and getting everyone fired into a frenzy for is the same usual normal wax and wane pattern whooping cough has always had every 4/5 years, and the normal expected big surge was 2 years ago, halved last year as expected and has massively dropped again this year now we're back in the wane, and that the people who are getting it now seem to be the ones who have been vaccinated and they think the vaccine is no longer working and they're switching to a different brand to try that one out. I don't want me or my baby to be an experiment to see if the new vaccine is better. The babies get their own vaccines at 2 months so it's only to cover to then and the chances of coming into contact with it, catching it and then dying from it are about the same as being killed by lightening. Looking at the research, 3 babies last year died from whooping cough, out of the 10% of the 1000 cases, or reported cases, which affected babies. 5 were stillborn within 2 weeks of the vaccine and that rate remained consistent to the end of the pg. They never did any trials on pg women before vaccinating them initially, as usual, they used a "do it anyway and we'll see in a couple of years what happened" approach and now they are starting to see links between problems with the now toddlers of the vaccinated mothers. I had whooping cough a few years ago and it is horrible, really really nasty and I wouldn't wish that on a baby at all, it's dreadful, and I am aware this will be a winter baby and more susceptible to the winter bugs going round, but I do not trust this culture of vaccinating for every single thing all the time, especially giving 5 vaccines in one to a 2 month old, and 7 in one at 13 months, that cannot possibly ever be a good thing, and I think logic dictates that we are setting ourselves up for a really big, nasty fall. I had every jab going and still caught every bug, what was the point?? I delayed DDs vaccines as I just did not feel it right to overload her tiny, new, still developing system with that much crap at such a young age, and she came into close contact with everything, and didn't catch a thing. The vitamin k jab is given to every baby born, that's 800,000 odd babies a year. A Vit K deficiency only affects 2-10 babies in 10,000, that's 0.02-0.1% of the population so why push for every single one to get the jab??? It makes no sense! You would not give any other medical procedure to 100% of the population to catch 0.02-0.1% especially when it's not contagious? Then they say you can have the oral drops instead of the injection but then looking at the rates of success with the drops (which I gave DD) they actually do pretty much sod all to protect a baby with a deficiency from having problems with a late onset problem so why is it an option? It's a synthetic vitamin which medics are always telling us are useless wastes of money and don't work, so why in this case is it OK? Like they say you can't take vitamin A in pregnancy as it causes birth defects, but it doesn't. SYNTHETIC Vit A does, but natural Vit A like Iden mangoes is fine, it's the fake chemical version which causes problems which is only logical that chemicals would really! I just don't think it makes sense and makes me question why they do it. DD had her first MMR at 2.5 instead of 13 months, and before and after having it she was exposed to measles and mumps and didn't catch anything. The second MMR only exists to catch the 10% of children who the first jab didn't take with, so again they vaccinate the whole country to catch 10%? And if they babies have had mumps or measles or whatever, they STILL give the all in one vaccine even though they already have a far stronger, better natural immunity? I just don't get that logic. My ex gave DD the 2nd MMR even though it was obvious she was already immune from the first one, plus a load of other pointless boosters she had already had, 7 inoculations in one go, against my wishes when she was 6 and I still want to run him over and reverse back over him again for that one, I'll never forgive him for that and I did notice a decline in her after that. The whites of her eyes went yellow, a very clear indication that her liver was struggling to process all the toxins in her and she just seemed to lose her sparkle. Her skin just didn't look as clear and glowing and healthy, her colour wasn't the same, her sparkly demeanor was just a little duller... of course it could have been down to his general care of her and poor diet and lifestyle and interaction with her, but it was immediately and the jabs and has never really improved. I do believe in vaccination where there is a real need, I don't believe in overloading tiny little developing systems without a genuine risk to their lives and wellbeing, I don't believe in giving jabs with as many or more risks than the actual bug, or as part of an experiment to see what the effect will be in a few years time, and I don't believe in vaccinating 100% for 0.02-0.1%. I don't believe in our programme. And I don't buy that untested things are ok in pregnancy, that's what they said about thalidomide. And smoking. And alcohol. I will vaccinate this one on a delayed programme and not for every single thing, but I really don't trust the propaganda and the way they expect us to be a blind herd of sheeple just accepting everything they say and never questioning anything. I'm not a lemming and deserve real truth and facts and to make my own informed decisions given all the information, not their contrived booklets which give no numbers or risks or facts at all and are all written with this patronising "just do what we say, there's a good girl" attitude. That Instantly makes me suspicious. If it was all good they'd be running to tell me that and show off what masters of the universe they are. 