Archive

July 2017

Browsing

In this post I’m sharing why we choose to vaccinate our children. Poor baby had his one year immunisations yesterday at Norton Medical Centre. Martin took the afternoon off work so we could take him to the appointment together. We arrived in the waiting room, where a little boy was crying after receiving an injection. His mother, trying her best to comfort him, pointed to Jonah and remarked “that little boy isn’t crying”, but we all knew he soon would be – how sad. “The two public health interventions that have had the greatest impact on the world’s health are clean water and vaccines” ~ World Health Organisation The nurses were friendly and helpful, explaining what would happen, providing us with patient leaflets, and asking about previous immunisations. Daddy held him during the four injections, which were performed one at a time, one in each limb. I cupped his head…