Being asked to get covid, flu and Dtap shot before meeting baby

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Anonymous wrote:I understand the flu shot and Dtap but the covid shot doesn't make sense to me. it doesn't prevent you from getting covid.

It doesn't prevent it 100% but it reduces the chance of contracting COVID. This is also true for the flu shot.

What both of those are very good at is reducing the risk of hospitalization and death. But they do also reduce your risk of contracting it at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a mom of older teens so its been a while. My sister is having a baby and her ob/gym said anyone around the baby within the first two months must have a flu shot, covid shot and Dtap.

I've had enough covid shots and had covid a few times. I was not planning to get me or my kids another shot.

Is this standard for newborns now?

Your sister is asking you to help protect her baby. Who cares if it’s standard! If you don’t want to comply wait to see the child until you sister feels it’s safe. It sounds like you are looking for a reason to fight with your sister and have “proof” she’s wrong. It’s her kid. Let her do what she feels is best.

FWIW - I didn’t ask people to vaccinate and my kids were fine, but my youngest is 12. I did ask them to be healthy and wash their hands.

OP here - one thing I don't understand is that just because you have the recent covid shot doesn't mean you won't get Covid. If Covid is really the concern shouldn't they make everyone who enters the house test for covid? Family members will be walking off planes minutes before seeing them.

Ok, OP—I’m calling you out for being cagey.

You say you’re not anti Covid vax, but you also say you’ve had “enough” Covid shots without saying when your last shot was. And you’re doing that deliberately. And now here you are saying everyone should just be tested before seeing the baby rather than be vaccinated.

So clearly, what is going on here is not that you hadn’t “planned” to get a Covid shot—you simply don’t WANT to get one. You’re AGAINST getting another shot. Right?

if it is that big of a concern why wouldn't they ask for tests?

What are they going to do, keep you in your car for five days while they test you repeatedly?

Honestly, they shouldn’t even have to ask you to get these vaccines. A responsible adult just does, and most certainly does when considering visiting a baby.
I recently had a convo with a coworker who was visibly ill but planning to go see her week old granddaughter. She was going to hide her illness and hope for the best. I think her son suspected because he kept FaceTiming and saying “you ok?”
I literally can not look her in the face ever again. How could you do that to your own family?? That’s horrifying.

[Anonymous]

I know plenty of responsible adults who are not continuing to get covid shots.

I don't think it would occur to most people seek out a covid vaccine prior to visiting a baby for an 45 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of responsible adults who are not continuing to get covid shots.

I don't think it would occur to most people seek out a covid vaccine prior to visiting a baby for an 45 minutes.

Sadly, this logic is illogical to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of responsible adults who are not continuing to get covid shots.

I don't think it would occur to most people seek out a covid vaccine prior to visiting a baby for an 45 minutes.

Apparently you don't know very many responsible people. No one would be near my baby without one

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i have had two new grans in the last couple of years. nobody ever mentioned this to me.

MAGAs have not stopped procreating...

[Anonymous]

If you aren't going to get your vaccines, you aren't going to the see the baby until they are old enough to get vaccines. Your wishes do not override the parents wishes.

[Anonymous]

Are parents asking family to have these vaccinations and then taking their babies out into public spaces?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you aren't going to get your vaccines, you aren't going to the see the baby until they are old enough to get vaccines. Your wishes do not override the parents wishes.

I think babies get a covid vaccination at 6 months. How do you handle daycare before that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of responsible adults who are not continuing to get covid shots.

I don't think it would occur to most people seek out a covid vaccine prior to visiting a baby for an 45 minutes.

Sadly, this logic is illogical to me.

+1

Those adults are irresponsible per se.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of responsible adults who are not continuing to get covid shots.

I don't think it would occur to most people seek out a covid vaccine prior to visiting a baby for an 45 minutes.

No then they aren’t responsible

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, it's not an outliner request. Many infant pediatricians highly suggest - exactly what your sister is requesting. Your desire to irritate your sister seems to be more important than whether you actually get the shot or not.

Stop being a bossy older sister. Probably looping-in family and friends to complain to. Shut up. Get the shot

My friends actually all agree with me on this. That's why i posted here.

Birds 🐦 of a feather.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are parents asking family to have these vaccinations and then taking their babies out into public spaces?

I only took my babies out in public spaces if I had to. If we desperately needed diapers and I had no one to watch the babies for me, I took them in the stroller and kept a blanket over their car seats so no one touched them. That was long before Covid. In today’s world, I’d use Instacart and stay home. However, there’s a difference between being several feet away from someone for a minute versus being cuddled to someone’s bosom, inches from their face, for 20 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:If you aren't going to get your vaccines, you aren't going to the see the baby until they are old enough to get vaccines. Your wishes do not override the parents wishes.

I think babies get a covid vaccination at 6 months. How do you handle daycare before that?

They’d generally be in an infant room with only a handful of other infants and the same 3 adult caregivers. If the other parents (and hopefully the teachers) are vaccinated, as doctors recommend for those with frequent close proximity to infants, it’s pretty low risk. They’re not being exposed to lots of different people.

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Anonymous wrote:If you aren't going to get your vaccines, you aren't going to the see the baby until they are old enough to get vaccines. Your wishes do not override the parents wishes.

I think babies get a covid vaccination at 6 months. How do you handle daycare before that?

If you are concerned, you don't do daycare that young if you can afford not to. I would assume OPs grandbaby will not be going to daycare the first 6 months.

If ops adult child is going to do infant daycare, I would assume OP will be able to see the baby whenever they start daycare.