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[quote=Anonymous]PP, I think the main difference between a 5 month old and an 8 month old is that a 5 month old hasn't had any real immunizations (no MMR, no flu shot even).  That and you can't give a 5 month old very many fever reducers if they do get sick, and the younger a baby is, the more serious the fever is.  OP didn't say if she is staying in a city with good access to health care, or if she's going to be staying with relatives in a small village somewhere.
We talked about going to India with my now toddler when she was younger.  Our pediatrician said that in our case he would advise us not to go based off of where we would probably be (if we went we would stay with my grandmother in a small village, the nearest hospital is 2 hours away).  He said that if we were staying in Delhi or Mumbai that would be a different case, but the access to health care would not be good enough where we were staying.  He said he would wait until DD was at least a year (she was 4 months when we brought it up, we were thinking of going around 6 or 7 months) so that she would have been immunized against more things.  He's of indian descent so I don't think he was trying to scare us or dissuade us from going.  
OP is a FTM and really has no idea about the things you worry about once your baby is born.  She may not be able to successfully breastfeed, so then understanding that she needs to be able to ensure that she has a lot of bottled water is very important.  Everyone is just trying to make sure that she first talks to a pediatrician before making real travel plans, understands the risk that she could be putting her child in, and finally understands that traveling at that age may not be a particularly memorable experience for the baby and not a particularly pleasurable experience for her or her husband.  [/quote]

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