Whooping cough vaccine around babies

Don't meet the baby then. Babies have very weak immune systems and precautions need to be in place

Yes, it would make sense to not take any chances with baby's health if you can possibly help it.

While you might feel like you don't need vaccines, this isn't about you and your health. You are a lot older than baby and you have full immunity... with a baby, immunity develops more slowly and through exposure to things like the common cold.

You might get through whooping cough just fine because your immune system is fully developed, where baby's immune system won't be for a number of years yet.

Is it normal for a new mother to want to protect her baby? I think so.

The thing that concerns me and I hope I'm wrong, is that I've seen a similar situation before. "New mom" says "we are going to keep the baby isolated for "X" weeks because......." It sounded a bit suspicious but ok, maybe new mom is just a little paranoid.
"X" weeks come and go, new mom picks a fight with granny over some new issue and "needs some space". Now a year and a half has gone by and some family members still haven't laid eyes on the kid. Their concerns were a work of fiction and hasn't prevented them from taking the kid to daycare, the zoo, the park, playgrounds, or apparently anywhere else.

I don't blame you for not getting a booster just to see the kid, but do make an effort to stay in touch. Something else may be going on there and she may need a friend one day.

I think it's becoming more common among parents. By 8 months a baby would have some protection but could still get sick. Whooping cough is a scary sickness to deal with. I can understand their fears of it. I also understand your feelings about it.

I looked it up. Whooping cough is also known as pertussis, and it's a serious contagious disease. Vaccination for it is required for any kid enrolled in public schools in every US state. So most people in the US are already fully vaccinated. The vaccines are known as DTaP & Tdap (they cover multiple diseases). More:


Since it's a multi-dose vaccine (total of 5), that kinda suggests one dose is not enough, but if the baby has had the first 3 doses on schedule, it should be in pretty good shape by month 8. Are you sure you've never had the DTaP or Tdap vaccines?

Yeah, her position is reasonable because it's her child and she gets to set the rules around it. Just as your decision that you don't need that vaccination is reasonable for you. In this instance, the two positions are mutually exclusive. She can't force you to get vaccinated, and you can't force her to change what she feels is the safest course for the baby. So you likely won't be meeting the baby any time soon.

She’s entitled to her concerns. Vaccines are important and babies are more frail. Even at 8 months.

I think the most important question is not wether its normal but rather that its the will of the mother. she is the caretaker and she decides what risk she wants to expose her kid to so maybe it is extreme but that is irrelevant since its the will of the mother. she's free to care for her baby the way she sees fit but you are also a free person, you can choose to get vaccinated and see the baby or not see the baby, that's YOUR choice.

Then don't meet the baby.

Babies acquire some of their immunity in utero from their mother, and some from their mother's milk (particularly the colostrum in the early stages after birth.
However, they are still very vulnerable to diseases in their first year of life.
Young toddlers develop a better immunity if they go to daycare centres and kindergarten.

Whooping cough can be lethal for babies. The only way to prevent it is vaccination.

If the parents are worried about Covid, perhaps they might allow you to see the baby outdoors and at a safe social distance.

Not all vaccines work in the same way.

The Covid vaccines are a gamble. It's a matter of weighing the statistical chance of catching the virus and severe, long-lasting or lethal effects from it versus the chance of an adverse reaction to the vaccine. You can look the stats up on your government's health website.

Dont get an injection to soothe her fear. You will likely never be injected enough as there will be some other health scare that will require some kind of injection.

Millions of years but only now ppl starting to insist on medical procedures to be in their presence

Odds are pretty high that you are already vaccinated. Do you really believe everyone the baby comes in contact with is going to be "boosted" for the whooping cough? Think about it. Maybe she's just a bit paranoid because she's a new mom. maybe it's something else. I would almost bet she wasn't even "boosted".

It's not only normal, it's good. Whooping cough is a horrible thing for a baby to be exposed to.

Just get the vaccine. The risk of you getting whooping cough most likely outweighs any potential side effects of the vaccine.

It sounds like mom's maternal instinct is in overdrive. Don't get vaxed. It doesn't work and the baby will be fine.

I didnt even get the last vaccine who thinks i am getting this one.

Its very normal for a brainwashed mother, yes

Don’t meet the baby, you don’t deserve to. Of you are not willing to get a safe and effective vaccine then stay away. I am a mother and feel the same.

Its her baby her rules