A New Mom Who Rejected A Vaccine Is Speaking Out About Her Baby's Whooping Cough "Nightmare"
“If I could turn the clock back, I’d definitely take 10 of those vaccinations.”
A woman is warning other parents after her rejection of a vaccine led to her infant daughter contracting whooping cough.
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Cormit Avital, a first-time mother in Australia, discussed her baby daughter Eva's ordeal in a video for Gold Coast Health, her local health authority.
Avital said she had been offered the vaccine for pertussis, or whooping cough, in her 28th week of pregnancy, but turned it down.
"Being the healthy, fit, organic woman I said, 'Leave me alone, I don't need this crap,'" Avital said she thought at the time.
At first, Avital said the illness seemed like a simple cold. However, it soon became terrifying.
Eva's cough became something out of a "horror movie," and her baby turned blue and floppy, Avital said.
"For a moment there, you think they're dead in your hands," she said. "[It's] a lot of suffering for a tiny little cute thing you love so much."