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It is important to give children vaccines because in the womb babies receive special proteins called antibodies from their mother that help fight many serious illnesses but after his birth immunity gradually disappears and the baby needs outside protection against illnesses.

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Babies that are breastfed from the beginning continue receiving antibodies from the mother (especially while she is still producing colostrum) that protect against the disease organisms she has been exposed to (or been vaccinated for) and developed immunity against. But vaccinations allow the baby to make its own antibodies without having to actually catch the disease, and these antibodies will last long after any provided from the mother have degraded and been lost..

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