Rental house in OBX w/ 2 month old - fam has unvaccinated kids

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The kids will meet other kids at the beach. Some of those may have measles. Baby def can't go. I

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Just here to note that toddlers are age 1-2; preschoolers are age 3-4. A kid that will be 5 soon is not a toddler.

Is this like language millennials use because you don't potty train until like kindergarten or what?

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Anonymous wrote:If your kids are fully vaccinated, you have nothing to worry about. Let the other families worry about their own.

Did you read the post? Her 2mo is obviously not vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:While I think it’s insane they haven’t vacxed their kids, there are now unvaccinated kids all around us. But you just don’t know. I guess I wonder how your risk is any different?

You don’t share a house with the unvaccinated. That’s what’s different.

[Anonymous]

I would not go, my children would not go, my husband would not go.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your kids are fully vaccinated, you have nothing to worry about. Let the other families worry about their own.

This.
Being unvaccinated is not contagious condition.
OP, you understand how vaccines work? The ones who are vaccinated are immune. The ones who are not can catch the virus and are unable to fight it off.

Your vaccinated child can be around measle-y kids and will not get measles.
The unvaccinated cousins are not sickened by a virus - yet.

If your 2 month old is out and about in the world, that 2 month old is being exposed to all sorts of viruses and building up standard immunities. The only thing you need to worry about with your family is their kids getting sick with measles, mumps, rubella, any and all poxes, are contagious and spending that contagious time indoors with your unvaccinated child. Meaning, either they are already sick and bringing it with them to the rental or they catch one of those illnesses during the rental time.
Those who are vaccinated will not get sick under those conditions.

2 months olds do not build immunity. It's only by about 3 that immune systems even work. Unvaccinated children can carry all sorts of viruses whether or not they exhibit symptoms. I wouldn't go. No thanks.

This.
The majority of people with POLIO INFECTIONS are asymptomatic. Whooping cough, for some, just causes a prolonged cough that could be chalked up to daycare germs. No way I’m willingly letting a 2mo old around kids in close quarters for a week who aren’t vaccinated

[Anonymous]

Thanks all for the advice, definitely am planning to ask our pediatrician once we are there soon for the next check-up. Point taken on my husband also taking PTO for this and leaving me PP with a young newborn…also need to consider that aspect more than I had initially when I was zoomed in just on the vaccine aspect

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks all for the advice, definitely am planning to ask our pediatrician once we are there soon for the next check-up. Point taken on my husband also taking PTO for this and leaving me PP with a young newborn…also need to consider that aspect more than I had initially when I was zoomed in just on the vaccine aspect

Yeah, honestly you might like the break from your toddler at that time- for my second , being alone with a newborn for the weekend while my husband took our 3 year old to visit family was actually very relaxing. But he was a good sleeper and I wasn’t suffering any kind of PPD.

But I still wouldn’t have wanted him to take my 3 year old to a week long gathering of unvaccinated preschoolers. Sure he’s largely protected against the scary stuff but immunity to measles, for example , is only around 90-92% after one shot I think. So that’s a big enough chance that he isn’t immune for me to want to risk that, with a newborn at home. Not to mention pertussis.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not go, my children would not go, my husband would not go.

We allllll aren’t going.
This!

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Why wouldn't b your 2 month old be vaccinated?.

Obviously not for measles but they should be getting their first round of vaccines.

Also following the reasoning here you and yours should never ever leave the house.

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Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't b your 2 month old be vaccinated?.

Obviously not for measles but they should be getting their first round of vaccines.

Also following the reasoning here you and yours should never ever leave the house.

No, they shouldn’t share a house with unvaccinated morons.

Prolonged, close-quarters contact is much more likely to result in illness than casual contact.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not go, my children would not go, my husband would not go.

+1
Think about why you vaccinated. Think about H or sibling carrying home asymptomatic diseases . Absolutely not.

[Anonymous]

Listen, I get that measles is super contagious, and my 2 month old could get it in her stroller at the mall. But that doesn’t mean that lobbing up together in a house for a week isn’t much riskier. It is.

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It’s fine. You should not be going with a newborn though.

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I bet you would go if it was your side of the family.