I am going to close by telling you the story of our middle child, Ryan, now 22 years old. Ryan was born a healthy baby with an Apgar score of 9. I had a natural childbirth with him, receiving no medications during labor or delivery. Immediately after birth, he was given a vitamin K shot, which might have contained aluminum. I do not know if the particular brand he received contained aluminum, as some do, because I was not told, and I did not know to ask…or to refuse the procedure…for which there was no evidence he needed. He was also given antibiotic eye drops, which I have since come to find out used to be given only to babies whose mothers had gonorrhea.
When he was 2 months old, I dutifully took him in for his 2-month “well baby” appointment. Looking back, with hindsight being 20/20, he would never be well again after that first of many vaccine poisonings. Up until that 2-month appointment, Ryan was a typical and normally-developing baby. He nursed well, slept often, and cried when hungry, tired, upon awakening, or needing to be changed. After that appointment, at which he received the whole cell DPT vaccine, the oral polio vaccine, and the Hib vaccine, together containing a total of 50 mcg of mercury, Ryan stopped crying…and I mean completely…