Posted on 02/23/2026 8:50:11 PM PST by DoodleBob
DEAR ABBY: I am having a baby in five months. My doctor is recommending that anyone who visits the baby in the first three months be up to date on vaccines (Tdap, flu, COVID and RSV, if age 60-plus). We have decided to follow our doctor’s recommendations.
Some of my family members are resistant to getting these vaccines and want us to consider other options, like testing and wearing a mask, which is not as safe. Also, it would be hard for younger kids to do — my niece is 3. Abby, we vaccinated our young children (3 and 5) at the time when our niece was born, as part of what my sister requested.
I am already stressed about this situation and do not want to talk it to death with my family, and I have grown resentful because of it. In the past, I have set boundaries with my family, and most of them have not been understood or received well. Can you offer me some guidance? — EXPECTING IN WASHINGTON
DEAR EXPECTING: I am happy to try. When your baby arrives, the responsibility for its welfare will rest mostly on you, the mother. Follow your doctor’s medical advice to protect your child. If family members don’t want to respect your wishes and do what they must to avoid endangering your baby (as you did for them), realize you can’t change their minds, and keep your distance for the first three months.
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Well, I’m glad it worked out for you all.
And genetics likely does play a role. Sounds like you got a good inheritance that way.
Wow. Talk about dumb, the less vaccines the baby has, the healthiest it will be.
Same for adults.
The covid jab is not a vaccine and never saved a life. Just killed people.
Covid didn’t kill people, it was the wrong medicine they gave to people that killed people.
Expecting, Expecting, you have no complaint
You are what you are and you ain’t what you ain’t
So listen up buster and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood
Signed, Dear Abby
No need to isolate an unvaccinated child unless it has a pre-existing medical condition or there is a dangerous epidemic going around.
One thing I figured out is that parents cannot stop their kids from seeing people short of a restraining order. If the grandparents want to *see* the child, they can. Too often this becomes a game that people feel like they have to win. Eventually, the child figures out what is going on when they see the grandparents in public but can’t talk to them.
My mother refused to come to our house to see the children even though she was invited. That’s what she defined as “not seeing them”. She was a smoker and our daughter had asthma. When we moved away, we would stay with her which was fine with her (she had stopped smoking).
Done and done!
I get angry too.
Covid-19 generated a lot of fear. The “vaccine” generated a lot of bullying to get the shot.
What are proper boundaries on a shot? I think it’s “mind your own business.” If someone thinks HCQ & zinc, or an mRNA shot, or Ivermectin, is the way to go, let them proceed. This is basic stuff in a free country. That’s not the way this country proceeded.
Nope.
Sorry babe.
Never gonna take the Clot Shot (TM)!
Then you let the other people choose.
No drama.
Now I understand why people would not want the Wu-Flu jab as it is dangerous and I have no idea why you would want to give it to a baby but your choice I guess.
I would be sending you a "congratulations" card if you ever actually reproduced and staying away because frankly it sounds like your entire family has problems and I do not need more of that in my life.
You have a nice day person who makes up stupid scenarios for Agony Aunts to solve in the most idiotic way possible.
Because she (or maybe he) is a low level flunky being paid to come up with stupid scenarios for the fake name lady to resolve.
None of the people involved are real.
It is all a stage play. For clicks.
And millions of unvaccinated Americans did not contract the virus or in my case had a bad cold and now have natural immunity. And millions of Americans got the vaccine and still got Covid in many cases multiple times. So what’s your point?
Follow the $$$cience!
Don’t forget the machine that goes “Ping!”
The immune system is like a muscle: Use it, or lose it!
Dear Abby is dead. Shouldn’t she have written to Dear Miss Cleo?
Well, that’s certainly possible. I’ve suspected that about some of the letters to the Daily Mail’s advice columnist.
Back in my college days, it was a great honor to have your creative writing submission be published in Ann Landers/Dear Abbey. You had to walk a fine line and try to make it crazy and still be believable.
I guess mine never made the grade.
I retired from the telecomm industry and now work as a head custodian at the middle school where I went. Don’t laugh... I love this job.
My grandson will attend the school in a few years and I will try to build a relationship with hkm at that time. To me... it’s not worth the hassle of trying to do it legally. I don’t want him to see me as an enemy, or to have them try to take out a restraing order against me.
I di truly live my son and his wife. They are just young people who think they know everything. I thought I was pretty smart at that age, too.
My grandson has a cousin at the school from his mother’s side. She asks a lot of questions and tells me about my grandson. Being kids, I know I have been mentioned by her to him at least a number of times.
He will see what I am really like when we finally meet. It is my guess that his parents have rarely, or possibly never mentioned me or my wife in his presence.
DEAR EXPECTING: When you insist that your adult family members come to your children’s birthday parties, do you have your child quarantined for a month before the party so that the adult guests will be safe from your little germ-factories? If not, then you should allow your family members to visit without a shot record.
So dumba$$es are still taking the covid “vaccine”.
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