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@makeitwork Right, so the adults who are lower risk still have immunity after several years... This is how pretty much all vaccines work. It’s why boosters exist in the first place. We stick with the CDC and our physicians’ recommendations on vaccinations, which is for adults who will be...

@makeitwork The recommendation is to get a TDaP booster every 10 years for healthy adults, which is what we stick with. The reason pregnant women get the booster every time they’re pregnant is to pass the greatest number of antibodies possible to baby, not because the efficacy of the vaccine is...

@heavensdaughter That is definitely really hard — my husband and I have made a few choices that have felt personal to family members when they’re not. We just continue to talk to them and send pictures as if they didn’t take it personally (because it wasn’t personal on our end) and eventually...

@heavensdaughter There are lots of things you’ll do as a parent that will confuse or upset other people. It takes some time and practice to get used to it. But I think it is appropriate and worth it to have firm, reasonable health / safety boundaries. We have already told my husband’s family we...

@indebted2him I told them to keep the receipts because the hospital would ask for them if / when they came to visit the hospital. In my defense, a nurse did tell me they may ask to check visitor’s info since our first was born during Jan 2020, which was an awful flu / RSV season. Most of them...

@heavensdaughter With our first (January baby) we told everyone if they wanted to meet the baby within the first four months, they needed TDaP and flu shots. It ruffled some feathers but we decided not to care about adults around us having tantrums about us trying to protect our baby. With #2...