Tips to ease the trauma of vaccination for your baby

Blowing bubbles is just one of many methods that can be used to ease the trauma of vaccination, Georgina O’Halloran discovers

BRINGING a baby to the GP for a vaccination is a prospect that fills many parents with dread.

While the 10 vaccinations infants receive at the doctor’s over the course of the first 13 months of their lives undoubtedly protect their little ones against potentially life-threatening infections, mums and dads can still feel guilty about the pain (fleeting, but pain nonetheless) experienced by their offspring during immunisation.