Best Baby Shower Gift This Summer: The Book, Your Baby's Best Shot

There's a tremendous amount of misinformation out there for new parents on the issue of vaccination, on the web, in parents' discussion groups, and even in books.   How to counter these waves of misinformation?  If the parent-in-waiting prefers information in video format, I send them to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's video series, Vaccines and Your Baby and Vaccines: Separating Facts from Fear.  

Now I have a new book to give or recommend:  Your Baby's Best Shot: Why Vaccines are Safe and Save Lives,  written by Stacy Mintzer Herlihy and Allison Hagood.  The book is scheduled for release August 16, 2012 but you can pre-order it from Amazon now.

Here's how the authors describe the book:

Your Baby’s Best Shot is written for the parent who does not have a background in science, research, or medicine, and who is confused and overwhelmed by the massive amount of information regarding the issue of child vaccines. New parents are worried about the decisions that they are making regarding their children’s health, and this work helps them wade through the information they receive in order to help them understand that vaccinating their child is actually one of the simplest and smartest decisions that they can make.

Covering such topics as vaccine ingredients, how vaccines work, what can happen when populations don’t vaccinate their children, and the controversies surrounding supposed links to autism, allergies, and asthma, the authors provide an overview of the field in an easy to understand guide for parents.

In an age when autism diagnoses remain on the rise, when a single infectious individual can help spark an epidemic in three countries, when doctors routinely administer an often bewildering array of shots, and when parents swear their babies were fine until their first dosage of the MMR, the authors hope this book will serve as a crucial resource to help parents understand this vitally important issue.

If you use Facebook, there's a page there for the book.

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Thank you so much for the recommendation and support!