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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand the need to minimize risks, but forcing shots on your relatives is just too much.  If you take your child outside the house before they're a year old they're going to be exposed to people who haven't had the tdap shot.  I can't take the shot and I couldn't let dd take it because of a history of reactions to the pertussis vaccine in our family.  I never even thought about about this when I visit friends with newborns.  PPs, do I need to wear a sign around my neck so that you know to stay away?[/quote]

I wish you would. [/quote]

But I won't.  I'm probably going to forget about this whole issue the second I log off.  There is only so much you can do to control your surroundings, that's the point.  I *wish* I could give my kids the vaccine, but I can't, because the last person in our family to take it had seizures and went into a coma for 2 months.  The new version of the vaccine that people take now is only half as strong as it used to be, and that's part of the reason there are so many outbreaks, because so many people had such a negative reaction to the full vaccine.  You can't control everything, you can't control everyone.  Are you going to ask all of your friends who want to visit your newborn if they're fully vaccinated?  Are you going to ask people in the supermarket or wherever you take your baby?  We have such a distorted view of how much we can control.[/quote]

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