Vaccines of All Types and Pregnancy Don't Mix

(The Best Years in Life) Driving to the Santa Fe, New Mexico health food co-op I was surprised to hear a “public service announcement” on a local radio station encouraging pregnant women to get the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccination during their third trimester of pregnancy “to confer that immunity to their newborns”. Recommended by the CDC, of course.

The pertussis vaccination is rarely administered alone. It usually includes a tetanus vaccine, diphtheria vaccine, and the pertussis vaccine. It's called the DTaP or Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis vaccine. So adverse side effects, short or long term, are tripled. Read More.