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Anonymous wrote:This thread is wild. So many neurotic people. My kids all got their vaccines at the recommended times, but the thought of isolating them until they had those vaccines or obsessing about the vaccine status of other people's kids never crossed my mind.

Exactly. This is crazy. How do people who work isolate their babies at home?

I don’t know, ask RFK jr and trump, they must have some plan in mind.

DD and her spouse refused to travel to TX to visit his family until their son was old enough for his first MMR at 12 months.

Anonymous wrote:We are planning to take our 4 MO on a flight next month to visit DH’s family, but I’m having second thoughts due to the (low but still concerning) measles risk. Would you all take a 4 MO on a domestic flight right now? We’d be traveling to Austin, TX. DH thinks I am being paranoid for considering canceling.

No way would I do that. Protect your child.

We are planning to take our 4 MO on a flight next month to visit DH’s family, but I’m having second thoughts due to the (low but still concerning) measles risk. Would you all take a 4 MO on a domestic flight right now? We’d be traveling to Austin, TX. DH thinks I am being paranoid for considering canceling.

Anonymous wrote:The exception to daycare is the wildest and most illogical of them all. I wonder what wild and crazy mental gymnastics you lept through to get to that exception. I think if you have them in daycare, don’t worry about isolating them from anything.

+100 I laughed out loud. Daycare is like dipping your kid in a vat of pathogens. If you send your kids to daycare you might as well let them chew gum off the sidewalk, lick the playground railings, and clean the litter box with their bare hands. It's over.

My first kid was born 2021, so we were cautious with travel at first because of Covid. My 2023 baby we were careful during RSV season when she was a newborn but it was hard to keep her germ free due to her older sister. My current baby we are avoiding travel until 6 months and getting the MMR at 6 months. Def ask your ped about it! I didn’t have to worry about measles at all for the first two but it’s 100% a different environment now - RFK and MAHA are selfish, trash humans.

You don’t understand. Things are different now, your baby is not protected anymore.
If you choose to have a baby, you should isolate at all costs. It sucks, I know. Get the vaccine as early as possible to end the isolation.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is wild. So many neurotic people. My kids all got their vaccines at the recommended times, but the thought of isolating them until they had those vaccines or obsessing about the vaccine status of other people's kids never crossed my mind.

Exactly. This is crazy. How do people who work isolate their babies at home?

The last time measles was endemic in the US, most moms stayed home with their babies. The older kids obviously went to school, but it’s not like housewives were flitting from place to place all day with infants. Church and the grocery store, maybe. A friend’s house for coffee. There were no indoor play areas, far fewer restaurants, and travel was a driving trip somewhere and absolutely a luxury. And babies still got sick and died, right away and 10 years later from measles induced brain damage.

Measles plus today’s culture is going to be disastrous for young babies. This world is built on herd immunity. All the breastfeeding and clean nutrition and cosleeping isn’t going to do a damn thing because it didn’t do a damn thing before.

I am getting my baby all recommended shots on time and otherwise living our lives. It is wildly privileged to take the extreme precautions mentioned in this thread and criticize others for not doing the same. Some of us are more concerned about paying bills on time, keeping up with inflation, and not losing our jobs.

Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty sure unless you’re traveling internationally to a country where measles is more common, that a baby doesn’t get the first dose of the MMR until 1 year. It’s not really feasible to isolate for a full 12 months. Maybe you could sweet talk your ped to giving it between 6-11 months but not sure if they’d do that without planned travel.

1yr is the original pre-RFK schedule.

Our Ped (several years back; before all these current measles outbreaks) gave an MMR to ours at 6 months, and then 2 more MMR shots as per the original pre-RFK schedule -- based on our request and local conditions (to be very clear - no travel at all).