Mom of 4-Month-Old Who Died 2 Days After ‘Routine’ Vaccines Warns Other Parents: Don’t ‘Blindly’ Follow CDC Schedule

Four-month-old Josette Petrone received six vaccines at a routine wellness visit. Two days later, she went down for her afternoon nap and never woke up again.

“Josie,” as her family called her, was in perfect health when she went in for her 4-month check-up at 3 p.m. on Aug. 19, her father Ryan Petrone told The Defender.

Josie was developmentally advanced, Ryan said. She was holding her head up like a 6-month-old and was able to roll in both directions. “Her pediatrician was super happy with everything,” he said.

The office staff gave Josie the six vaccines the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends babies receive at age 4 months, including a first dose of the RSV monoclonal antibody shot and a second dose of the DTP, Hib, pneumococcal, rotavirus and polio vaccines.

Josie received an oral liquid containing the rotavirus and polio vaccines, and two combined shots of the other vaccines.

She became irritable, which was “completely out of the norm” for her as she was a “super happy, super easy baby,” Ryan said.

For the next two days, Josie continued to be irritable and refused to nurse.