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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Maybe not if she’s vaxxed.
“Follow your doctor’s medical advice to protect your child.”
Yeah. That “follow your doctor’s advice” ship sailed in 2020. Maybe “consider”, but definitely don’t “follow”; they’re (usually) not there to help patients anymore.
“For the first three months, the best thing is to keep the baby home and recover and bond with it.”
Growing up, we used to laugh at people who did that, mostly in the context of attending church.
It was funny, too, that the kids who weren’t brought to church when infants were ill ALL THE TIME. It seemed to help with natural immunity to be exposed to others at that age.
I was born on a Saturday, and in Prayer Meeting four days later. Ditto for my siblings. We never got colds, flu, etc.
Death Wish ... what’s the next number? 4?
Get a doctor folks
I wish she had bought a cat.
We’ve gone through this not even a year ago.
It must be a thing now. Maybe this new requirement has been propagated through social media? I never ever recall anyone demanding vax before seeing a new born until recently.
This is a great excuse to not have anything to do with this looney woman and her spawn.
“ How do you know she’s not the wealthiest one in the family?”
You’re right. That’s possible.
More likely, given the husband is clearly a spineless weasel leftist like the mom (or he wouldn’t tolerate this) I’m betting that they’re mid-tier corporate drones at best.
I’m detecting a lack of grit and independence necessary for real wealth generation.
But, yes, could be either way.
I never even heard of Tdap. No one gets a flu vaccine, it is clinically proven to be useless. Covid jabs were designed for alpha and delta variants which don’t exist any more. RSV is rare and usually benign.
Mental illness such as this should not be allowed to have children.
Three months is not a long time.
I did not get the Covid shot and I was persona non-grata with several family members. I would have appreciated a three month timeline.
Funny story, I think. My wife and I always come to visit my brother-in-law on his birthday. He was with his parents at the time. My mother-in-law fretted and fretted for months about my coming to their house. I came, dropped my wife off, and left to do some sightseeing. As I left, my mother-in-law showed her astonishment asking “why is he leaving? He doesn’t have to go.”
Perhaps I erred in not advancing my decision in advance. To me, it was simple. If I’m not welcome (as was evident), I’ll go.
My doctor wanted me to explain my “vaccine hesitancy.” I did, and he stormed out of the room.
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“I’m not falling on the mRNA sword to assuage a blackmailer.”
Good for you.
I did not consider the word “blackmail.” You are correct. That is exactly what was going on. Blackmail. It was coercion. I bet those who blackmailed successfully said to themselves “I’m glad I made him get his shot.”
Liberals always want to “make” someone do something. They do not value freedom. They don’t respect the individual.
They’ll just visit at the baby’s or the mother’s funeral. The vaccinated are still dying off.
“FIVE YEARS AGO this was the HEADLINES.”
Yes. It almost feels like ancient history now.
In China, tens of thousands perhaps even hundreds of thousands of the unvaccinated died of Covid.
In America, millions of the vaccinated did not contract the Covid virus
My daughter is having a little baby boy her first at age 37, my wife and I both got the Tdap at the local pharmacy, I didn’t even know what a Tdap was, it was no big deal to me after it was explained. The in-laws are not getting a Tdap and will wait three months to see the baby, but they live in Arizona and we live in Texas and it is only a 3 hour drive for us, shot is good for 10 years.
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