"Babies are bleeding to death as droves of anti-vaxxers shun simple shot... "

[hlthe2b]

3. The stupidity is astounding. I know ob/gyns get & peditricians get tired of arguing with these parents

but damn. If they take the time to do so--no matter how unpleasant and bone-jarringly irritating, they just might save one every once in a while. Ditto on receiving HepB vaccine at birth. Definitely ditto to receiving ocular antibacterial ointment to save the eyes from intrauterine-acquired infection (quite often gonorrhea, but other organisms (Chlamydia, as well and avoid possible loss of an eye shortly after birth--something my late uncle--that died before I was born experienced. At the time they were using silver nitrate ointment and had run out so he did not receive. Today they typically use erythromycin, which, imo is not as broad spectrum as they should be using, but still advised). Honestly, it feels as though they are trying to kill newborns or at least increase their risk for significiant postpartum (or lifetime in the case of hepatitis B) complications.