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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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If this woman wants to estrange herself from her family, then there is nothing they can do but wait it out.
No prob - cut her and her family out of the inheritance chain.
“In the past, I have set boundaries with my family,”
Abby is long gone. And “setting boundaries” is the new buzzword for young women of this generation. They revel in trying to force family members to follow their woke edicts... like anyone going near a baby needs to provide shot records, get a covid shot etc.
In the past, older women in the family would set her straight, but hell, half of them are crazy these days too.
FIVE YEARS AGO this was the HEADLINES.
Tdap, flu, COVID and RSV
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The doctor is agre$$ively promoting these optional injections.
Idiot
How do you know she's not the wealthiest one in the family?
Gen Xers were using that term back in the 1990s.
My daughter in law is a dumbass much like this woman. She just had our second grandchild. They wanted us to get the flu shot.
“Yep, we got it.” We didn’t get it nor will we ever. I did notice that ever since they got our grandson a flu shot he’s been sick to one degree or another. Not totally but exhibiting cold like symptoms sometimes. He got us both sick at one point but we’ve been fine ever since.
Despite being a remarkable man my son did not choose well. I’m leaving everything to my grandson.
-SB
HOORAY FOR THE FAMILY!!
Follow the science. LOL
Not really, follow the money and politics for the decision makers at the top.
Follow some philosophical/idiological BS for those at the bottom of the food chain.
If these people are that friggin stupid, they will find some other reason/cause which they feel they must ram down everyone else’s throat.
Find friends and relatives with more than two working brain cells. Get away from idiots like this. They will only irritate you as they pretend to know something and virtue signal.
I don’t.
People in the driver’s seat don’t get their panties in a wad over questions like this.
I guess we’re going to see the baby
NOT
Is she going to make sure all her neighbors and the people at the grocery store are all vaccinated?
The doctor is probably getting a kickback from Big Pharma.
My MD did NOT suggest or encourage me to get a vax.
Me: “I had a covid test and I’m OK. Do I need a vax?
Dr: “You look very healthy to me. Come back in six months.””
I would not be blackmailed. Send pictures. Face time. I'm not falling on the mRNA sword to assuage a blackmailer.
There is probably a knee-jerk reaction in FR to jump towards covid, but this is the first 3 months of the baby’s life and it is those other illnesses that are far more dangerous in that time period then covid.
There were no covid deaths to speak of below age 65. Now infants in the first 3 months could be a difference configuration, but best not to dwell on that because this is not about covid. This is about most particularly diphtheria which is in the Tdap vax. Diphtheria destroyed entire villages of infants in England in the 1800s.
The problem is that the standard vaccination schedule for newborns does not have them protected until after 3 months.
The bottom line here is that evaluating the norms should just reject covid in the package of threats. It’s possible that her family members maybe willing to get some of those other vaccinations. But in an overall sense the correct way to handle this is simply have that child do the initial 3 months vaccination schedule and then have the family come see it
u got that rite !
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