Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Fresh take: I would also ask OB, whose main concern is health of the mom. Yanking two preschoolers out of daycare and having them plus a new baby home all day is a recipe for PPD/PPA. Life even before covid is weighing risks and costs and benefits. No decision is perfect. You can’t be laser focused on only one risk so much so that you ignore everything else. Only you know your life but there’s a lot of factors here including your mental health and also marital stress and finances.
excellent answer!!!
Anonymous wrote:Fresh take: I would also ask OB, whose main concern is health of the mom. Yanking two preschoolers out of daycare and having them plus a new baby home all day is a recipe for PPD/PPA. Life even before covid is weighing risks and costs and benefits. No decision is perfect. You can’t be laser focused on only one risk so much so that you ignore everything else. Only you know your life but there’s a lot of factors here including your mental health and also marital stress and finances.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not really.
Did you know that grandparents who have not been vaccinated against pertussis should not visit a newborn either?
https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/downloads/matte-grandparents.pdf
Babies are fragile and do not have their own immune systems yet.
I am not sure why you would go to a doctor you apparently do not respect or intend to listen to.
JFC, do any of you people read? Her. Parents. Have. Been. Vaccinated. The ped apparently does not trust that the vaccines work.
Anonymous wrote:Not really.
Did you know that grandparents who have not been vaccinated against pertussis should not visit a newborn either?
https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/downloads/matte-grandparents.pdf
Babies are fragile and do not have their own immune systems yet.
I am not sure why you would go to a doctor you apparently do not respect or intend to listen to.
Anonymous wrote:I think your Dr is being pretty reasonable tbh. We have one who was a February baby. They suggested that everyone in our family and anyone who visited make sure to have a flu shot. This was before Covid and made sense to us, especially after our experience with one of the kiddos catching the flu.
Anonymous wrote:Wow the crazies are really on DCUM today — lol a spinal tap for sniffles in a newborn. Give me a break. It will be ok OP. Make sure caregivers are vaccinated though. Some centers are being upfront about that.
Anonymous wrote:Given Covid I don’t think the advice is completely off in terms of pulling the older ones out of daycare temporarily, but I think it’s over the top to say your vaccinated parents shouldn’t visit. A reasonable approach might be to have your parents stay with you for a while to help you out if you keep the older ones out of preschool for a bit.
In terms of next winter, you have to do what you need to do and I would not let a doctor guilt trip you but be aware that surges dues to the delta variant, or some other, may occur and it may seem more critical to keep your kids, especially the baby, out of a group setting for a few months.