Mothers will do anything to protect your children. Well, what if there was a way to prevent your infant from getting the flu? A new study shows influenza can be prevented before your child is even born. Since the flu shot cannot be given to a baby younger than six months if the mother is given the shot before the baby is born it protects the baby too. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been trying to recommend flu shots for pregnant women but they are usually overlooked. Since more studies are being done on this vaccine, mothers might start doing more research on these shots. “In the test of 340 pregnant women in Bangladesh, the shots cut the risk of flu by 63 percent and the risk of respiratory illness overall by 29 percent.” (Emery) The New England Journal of Medicine has also published a study that has been done. The more studies that are done, the more mothers will become aware of how helpful getting this shot can be.
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