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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't go because of the vaccination issues.  My family takes a trip every other year together and went to Belize when my son was 10 months old.  We went around the world about it - talked to our pediatrician, got a second opinion from another pediatrician and talked to a doc at a travel clinic.  All of the docs we talked to said that they would not takea child that young to central america because he was not fully immunized.  I don't know much about India but that seems even riskier to me than Belize. I'd definitely talk to some pediatricians about it before you commit.  I am not usually a big worrier as a parent but for some reason, the travel before vaccination really made me stop and think and I decided it was not worth the risk.  Several of my friends thought I was crazy, though.  [/quote]
This.  We don't take malaria pills or anything like that when we go to India, but I still wouldn't take my daughter there if there was a risk she could get a weird fever that could have been prevented by a vaccine.  Babies that young get really high fevers and you can't really give them a lot of medicine, so you want to make sure that there is access to good quality care during your entire stay just in case.  Not to scare you, but one of my cousins had twin daughters.  They stayed at a yoga camp or something like that, and the girls came down with some sort of virus.  They had a high fever and it resulted in brain damage (they are both disabled now).  Sorry I don't know all the details, and this happened 10 years ago, so of course things are very different in India now, but stuff like that (I think they got something that everyone is typically vaccinated against but not at 6 months) is what I would be worried about.  
Traveling with an infant, while not ideal, won't be bad because they aren't mobile yet at that age.  You won't be really feeding solids at that age, so it'll just be formula or breastmilk.  If breast feeding doesn't work out, you have to be prepared to make a lot of formula using bottled water while you're there.  
There are a lot of unknowns at this point.  You might want to wait until the baby comes and see how you feel about it in August/September.  Don't worry about the baby not having a good relationship with your relatives, honestly a visit would be better when they are more of a toddler because they can actually interact at that age.  At five months, babies don't really do much other than smile, and there can be a lot of separation anxiety, so the relatives may not even be able to hold them that much.  [/quote]

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