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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I also know someone whose infant baby died because of being exposed to someone who was sick.
By 3 months, OK. But the first month or so, I think it’s better for everyone to recover.
Scripture seems to bear that out with the minimum of the 40 day recovery period for a woman having had a baby.
“In America, millions of the vaccinated did not contract the Covid virus”
Not proof of that at all. In fact, every single one of the people I know that got vaccinated contracted covid multiple times, some died, and much of those died immediately after getting the Clot Shot.
The river terminating at Alexandria is the Nile
Tdap is tetanus, diptheria and pertussis (whooping cough).
The 10 yr schedule for adults is mostly tetanus, but there are subtle parts of that. Tetanus is very rare. Primary defense against it is to wash the hell out of any wounds or nail stabs or whatever. Quiet little study of nursing home residents showed any military veteran at nursing homes with wounds got no tetanus. The 10 yrs thing is likely not reqd. Vets are guaranteed to have been tetanus vaxed as young adults and that was that.
The overall thing with infants is there is a vax schedule and even RFK jr agreed with the studies that defined it. The newer vaxes maybe not so much as stats have not accumulated. Have a look at infant vaccination schedule. Lots of jabs. This is the sort of thing that can be examined in other countries, too. National health departments notoriously hold all other countries in contempt and make strictly their own evaluations of things like this.
“Is she going to make sure all her neighbors and the people at the grocery store are all vaccinated?”
Great post.
It reminds me of the wonderful Horowitz quote:
“Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”
I have a grandson who is about to turn seven. I haven’t seen him since he was about three months old.
My son and his wife are liberals and are upset that I might try to sway my gasndson away from making his own decision in the event that he’d want to identify as a female.
It almost seems like a joke.... but it sure isn’t funny when it is happening to you.
The condition for seeing my grandson is that I publicy accept LBTBTQ+ and apologize for being opposed to it.
They sure didn’t think that one out. My wife and I have an email address we have created for our grandson and write him with some regularity.
Once he is an adult we will locate him and give him that email address and the PW. We are sure to never bad mouth his parents. He will figure out at some point that his parents are using him as their own tool to make us suffer.
Kids are smarter than we know about things like that.
“I never ever recall anyone demanding vax before seeing a new born until recently.”
In the old days a new baby was greeted by the whole extended family and friends who held them and touched them and made silly noises at them—without any checking about who had what vaccines.
In many families that could be a hundred people in the first three months.
Somehow the vast majority of the babies did just fine.
Ka Ching
One pregnant IDIOT!
Great quote
Because no one wants to get jabbed to she her and her kid
Dear Abby: Are you still doing your advice column from beyond the grave?
catnipman wrote: “nd besides, why should YOU dictate what medical treatments your relatives MUST undergo to visit with your perfectly healthy baby? ...”
Why? It’s her perfectly health baby and she wants to keep it that way.
A better question: why should those relatives impose their opinions on the mother and her baby?
Exactly.
Because none of their woke requirements are based in logic, or, sense.
I guess the five of us siblings should be dead now.
Also, my 12 cousins who were raised the same way. We all were in church before we were a week old, experiencing herd immunity.
Everybody’s different; genes are interesting things, and we share the same genes through our moms. Our moms all lived into their 90s.
I think it’s Dear AI by.
Of course the mother can “protect” her baby any way she likes—but she is showing signs of extreme sociopathy—something family members will notice.
I feel bad for both the husband and the kid.
This woman is going to drive them both crazy.
Ignore this idiot. Give her no showers and baby gifts. Don’t argue with her. Ignore really stupid people and do not reward her stupidity.
Her baby will be exposed to all kinds of people vaccinated and unvaccinated. Illegals are everywhere and not required to get vaccines of any kind. They could be at the grocery store with her and her baby. Is Mommie Dearest going to stay holed up in the house?
Common sense is sorely lacking in this fool. I pity her kid.
Ancient History is so True.
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I still get angry about that Mess.
The Constant Fear put upon the Public and the way everyone Reacted.
Empty Super Markets,Masking and Stupid restrictions on Every aspect of Living !
Yuppers...
We All gonna DIE!!
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