Reply to What’s the earliest you would fly with an infant?

Forum Index » Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers

Reply to "What’s the earliest you would fly with an infant?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With Covid, colds and flu, at least a year. [/quote]

This logic only applies to your first child. If baby has an older sibling, the "call is coming from inside the house" -- they will be exposed to germs no matter what.[/quote]

No, your older vaccinated sibling will not expose your infant to certain diseases… but strangers will. This is why docs recommend to wait until they’ve had certain shots. [/quote]

I lived in a country with endemic diseases that don't exist here anymore (rubella, TB, etc.) when I had an infant. It's actually pretty easy to shield a newborn from getting sick if there are no siblings in the house. Babywearing is great for it. It's when they turn into booger-eating toddlers that it's hard to shield them. That being said, I did wait until the first set of vaccines at 8ish weeks to fly, but that was largely just an arbitrary milestone that felt safe. I didn't really think someone was going to expose my kid to rotavirus or whatever on a flight.[/quote]

Well, I wouldn’t consider that an arbitrary time re vaccines. My infant was exposed to measles and our doctors office (!) because an unvaccinated family came with a child symptomatic of measles. We had to quarantine for 2 1/2 weeks per the health dept. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics