LisaTX wrote:
I read somewhere that when you have a newborn, you shouldn't let anyone be around the baby unless they have had their whooping cough booster. I've never heard that before and we didn't do that with the kids. So I have to tell my mom, dh's whole family and people at church that they have to have the booster or they can't be around the baby? I know dh and I are current because we received it in the military, but I don't know about our families. My family is pretty anti-doctor, anti-vaccine.
I also read that this is supposed to be a really bad year for whooping cough. What should I do? I thought just making sure sick people weren't around the baby and that everyone washed their hands before holding the baby was enough. I might be able to get our families to get updated even though they will not take kindly to that at all, but I don't have that power over other people, like at church.
Agreeing with Martha. The drug companies are out of control with all these vaccinations. It is funny, b/c when my kids were born (16 & 13 years ago), they had the standard immunization shots, but nothing more. I never had anyone use hand sanitizer around my kids, either. Obviously, if someone was sick with a cold or bad cough, I wouldn't allow my kids near them, and they, of course, would not come around, anyways, out of respect. Thinking back to my own childhood, I was rarely sick. Sure, I had the chicken pox, I had the flu maybe 2 or 3 times, and every so often, a bad head cold, but that was it. I had the flu right after my dd was born (she was 6 months old). I got so bad I had to go the emergency room and get a shot in my hip. The medicine was what hurt the most! Since then, I have been healthy, other than the average cold.