A mother has revealed her disappointment after her baby son was excluded from having the meningitis B vaccine simply because he was born one month early. Sarah Montrose, 34, from Oxford, had assumed her six-month-old son Alex would be covered because he was due after May 1, the date from which all newborns in England were offered the life-saving jab. Most new parents who saw the recent the photos of little Harmonie ­Rose Allen, who sadly lost all her limbs to the deadly meningitis B disease, will have felt peace of mind that their little ones, born after May 1, will have the jabs necessary to protect their little tots. Not so for our baby,Sarah Montrose, 34, from Oxford gave birth to son Alex one month earlyBecause Alex was premature he did not qualify for meningitis B vaccineSarah believes babies' eligibility should be determined by their due dateJab was introduced after Harmonie ­Rose Allen lost four limbs to the illness
_ spent three weeks in SCBU, at first in an incubator, and then with just a heart rate monitor and his nasal tube for feeds. At almost a month older than the others in our NCT group, _ was the first to have his jabs.