Grandparents Innoculations

Sorry Wendy ?

It's because there are so many " clinical " homes that there are hundreds of children suffering health problems such as asthma. These children who are wrapped in cotton wool and who venture from home to school to towns/cities/shops etc then catch whatever is flying around their systems aren't able to cope.
Years ago mothers were encouraged to have their children mix with those who had the usual childhood diseases----mumps/measles/chickenpox/german measles so that the immune system would act accordingly.
Vaccinations now help guard against these illnesses in the severest forms.

Many years ago we also used to have the thickest fog/smog but still had to take the babies out when we went shopping. Muck billowing from chimneys/coal fires/steam trains. Nobody appeared to have been any worse off with this thick air and very few cases of asthma and the sicknesses we have now ?

Innoculations only protect children from a small group of very specific diseases.

Going on the no contact before first vaccination at three months belief. How can you be sure on 3 months +1 day, that the grandparents or other visitor isn't currently harbouring the viruses or bacteria of the thousands of other infections and illnesses not covered by the vaccination?

I'm watching this thread because DD has postponed giving DG her yr old jags in case her DF, hubby , who is immune compromised due to treatment, could be affected by a live virus.
Baby is breast fed and not in a high risk environment. I was slightly shocked to hear this although impressed by her thoughtfulness. In my day we just did what we were told at the docs and there were never as many vaccinations.
Ours all had measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, and yes they were very poorly but bounced back. They got vacs against polio, diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough. I think that was it.
Now it's MMR, norovirus, meningitis and probably flu and others.
I find it strange that we don't trust our own immune systems anymore.
On the other hand, my DH uncle died of diphtheria when he was a teenager.

Why doesn't she discuss the issue with her GP? If it is just a problem with her father, he would also be able to tell her how long she would need to keep her child from her DF to protect him.

If she does not have the child vaccinated, supposing it gets measles, whooping cough etc. Those diseases could do her child serious harm - and even more harm to her DF if he picked them up from the child.

I do remember being advised not to take the DC swimming before they had had at least one polio immunisation (in the late 70s), but as for not having visitors, I would have gone round the bend without visits from my DM (and other friends and relations) from time to time, and she lived about 200 miles away.

MawBroon, my DMIL thinks I have a hubby, and I have not yet found a tactful way of getting her to stop using the term. As for DH(ubby) himself, one day he is going to say something regrettable to her if she says it in his presence!

M0nica she has seen her doctor who advised to postpone not because of her DF but because DGC is just getting over an ear infection. I'm sure DGC will get this raft of innocculations quite soon.