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Stopped from visiting newborn niece due to not being up to date with vaccinations

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Sister doesn't want anyone who is not up to date with vaccinations visiting her newborn daughter until she can have all her vaccinations even if the person is not sick at all let alone have any diseases. I think it is ridiculous.


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4 years ago
We did the same. Everyone should.

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4 years ago
I think she is absolutely within her rights. My daughter at 6 weeks old nearly died from whooping cough due to an inconsiderate person.

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4 years ago
What a nightmare, I'm so sorry 😔

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4 years ago
I'm so sorry. I hope she is ok.
I found out AFTER they visited my newborn that SIL was anti vax. My niece & nephew weren't vaccinated - and not from her. My mother told me. My mother then admitted she didn't get whooping couch vax as I requested as she couldn't be bothered & I was being ridiculous. There was an epidemic going on!

To make it worse, SIL then had her kids vaccinated to get them into their snooty school of choice's daycare.

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4 years ago
Wow I'd have some severe resentment after that.

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4 years ago
Yeah it’s horrifying. But people need to respect it. If I have another baby i will be going as far as asking for proof and it isn’t Instant either do a waiting period also.

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4 years ago
Let's just say that after I was finished with her, my mother had her vax before my second was born.
No point with SIL. She's head in the clouds selfish. Not malicious but doesn't give a stuff about our family. It's all about her family.

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4 years ago
One of my parents have severe long term lung damage from whooping cough he got as a child of five!
Vaccination is so important! He's lucky he didn't die

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4 years ago
Some people just don't think. I had several people turn up for a visit who weren't up to date with their vaccinations. They felt it didn't apply to them and it was just a quick visit. I just stayed in my room with the baby until they left, my husband said we were asleep and he wouldn't wake us. With my second baby we just didn't tell anyone she was born until she was two months old.

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4 years ago
If I was your sister I'd cut you off completely, just for being an uneducated, selfish bitch

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4 years ago
Agree

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4 years ago
Lol

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4 years ago
You don't always know you're sick; some diseases have an incubation period where you're infectious but not showing signs.

You may think this rule is ridiculous but your sister is doing what she can to protect her newborn baby. Newborn baby, ie literally one of the most vulnerable people in society. So you have to decide what's more important to you: your anti-vax beliefs, or your desire to see your sister and new niece. And yes, I said anti-vax, because if you weren't you'd be happy to get up to date to help protect your niece.

Your sister isn't telling you that you have to be vaccinated, she's telling you that she wants to reduce the risk of her baby getting sick from a preventable disease so she will only let vaccinated people near her when it's in her power to do so. You're making this about you, when it's actually about the safety of this newborn baby.

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4 years ago
Exactly this 👆 I couldn’t have said it any better.

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4 years ago
I personally think it’s ridiculous. I wouldn’t see the baby if she’s being so silly. Not everyone wants the risk of asking so many vaccinations at once especially when you don’t know how your body will react.

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4 years ago
So you see it as a risk for an adult to have booster vaccinations, but you don't see it as a risk for a baby to have unvaccinated people visiting?

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4 years ago
I did a health care course where as a pre req, i had hep b, flu, whooping cough, tetanus boosters of rubella and everything else. Can you imagine me saying I'm not gonna do that because I'm a little brat?

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4 years ago
Lol. Brat is the nice word isn't it?

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4 years ago
Why didn't you get them done earlier when you knew she was pregnant?

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4 years ago
I didn't want anyone unvaccinated near my newborns, it was too hard to police so I only had a few people visit in the first six weeks.

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4 years ago
Stand your ground x

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4 years ago
You can stand your ground, but don’t expect to see the baby.

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4 years ago
What???? Was something deleted in between?

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4 years ago
Bugger. I said ' stand your ground. I misunderstood thinking it was the ops baby. I would keep anyone away who was not vaccinated

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4 years ago
Yep, stand your ground - At home, away from newborns.

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4 years ago
No one cares about what you think when it comes to someone else's health. Get over yourself, plague-rat.

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4 years ago
Not your kid, not your choice. Want to see your newborn neice? get vaccinated. Have the respect to for the baby and the parents to not risk bubbas health.

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4 years ago
This is fair enough, and would be considered best practice by Midwives and Doctors. Why dont you just get vaccinated? Seems like an easy fix.

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4 years ago
So you’re ok with the possibility of killing your niece? Heard of whooping cough?

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4 years ago
It isn’t your call. She is protecting her newborn and whether you agree or not is irrelevant. The selfish one here is you.

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4 years ago
So you’re OK if you infect a newborn with whooping cough and they die? Protect that child. It’s her child, her choice. Respect it or don’t go and see them.

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4 years ago
I think you are selfish. Also get the whooping cough and chicken pox vaccines.

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4 years ago
Not your kid not your choice. Suck it buttercup.