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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My cousin is exactly in this situation.
She had terrible reaction to COVID vaccine and she will never take it again.
Yet her son insists, she has to get re-vaccinated, to see her newborn grandchild?!
Both Esther Pauline “Eppie” Lederer (Ann Landers) and her twin sister Pauline Phillips (Dear Abby) are deceased. Esther Lederer died in 2002 at age 83, and Pauline Phillips passed away in 2013 at age 94. The “Dear Abby” column is currently written by Jeanne Phillips, Pauline’s enlightened lefty daughter.
We haven’t been vaxxed except I did take the tetanus shot because my Dr said that was the only one she thought important..not covid,not shingles,not pneumovax..since she was reasonable I followed her advice.
Yeah,and it’s all the vimens fault right because men are so righteous and saintly....lol..
..................”’worked remotely and never set foot on company premises after September 2017.”
That’s really funny. Glad they decided not to fire someone who was never there.
>> Meta/Facebook has the patent, granted this past Dec 2025, to allow Facebook to continue posting on your page, as if it was you, not just text posts and comments, but audio and video, using your voice and image — AFTER YOU DIE.
So glad I never joined Facefook. This transhuman stuff is bizarre.
Am I the only one who thinks it weird that these supposed “trusted voice of calm reason and sanity” women chose to write under phony names rather than identifying as their real selves?
>> they really don’t know everything, in spite of what they think
“...Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. ... So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires...”
From Paul’s Letter to the Romans, ch 1
I hope you’re right. A family I’m close with had a baby boy last Friday. Mom is breast feeding.They brought the baby to church on Sunday and grandma was holding him for all to see. They are a big farm family and there have two other births the past year. All are well and, BTW, they all avoided having any Covid shots.
That’s been the way of the world forever and the human race has survived. In today’s generally healthy environment in the USA keeping a new born isolated for three months would seem to be counter productive as bacteria are everywhere and the sooner humans infants are exposed and develop an immune system the better off they will be. Obviously they should not have exposure to someone sick but otherwise it should be okay.
I joined back in the early days while it was much smaller, simpler, and saner. It was useful for a short time to connect with some folks I hadn't talked to in decades, and to plug my bands' upcoming gigs.
It rapidly exploded, got more complex, and increasingly insane. Around 12 years ago I stopped posting, and about 10 years ago I stopped logging in. I still have the account, because "ya never know" when it might come in handy now that I'm old. But so far it hasn't been handy enough to login.
I agree -- it's freakin' bizarre. It's very disturbing on many levels even without this godawful idea of internet immortality through AI. When I die, whatever awaits me is not going to be an AI-generated fake Facebook profile.
Correction, the baby was born two Friday’s ago, and was brought to church for the Ash Wednesday service, five days after the birth.
I was an NICU nurse. A newborn should be exposed to family members first with lots of kisses to develop similar immunity and the close community in proximity. People outside of community the first few months, not so much. I took my newborns to church, too. The grocery store or Walmart- hazardous to everyone’s health pretty much.
We need to re-establish the patriarchy.
Anti-Science woman believes Covid vaccines prevent Covid
Write her out of the will, and set up a trust for the baby. Problem solved.
These masked vax freaks shouldn’t be having kids. They just grow up as demented delusional liberals.
This generation is all about social media and posts. Take photos with a fake vaccinated family and friends and enjoy the likes and comments.
My young relatives look like no babies in near future.
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