To not want baby near unvaccinated toddler?

YANBU
You are absolutely right to be concerned.
Your job is to protect your baby first and foremost.

The risk of vaccines is even more minimal. Take the lowest risk for your child

While breastfeeding does pass on immunity it is not 100% so the baby can still be at risk of catching viruses.

Well of course. But theres nothing i( or my parents) couldve done differently. Unless they didnt send me to school

So what’s wrong with being judgemental about people who are stupid and easily influenced by idiots on the internet, to get their young children vaccinated?

Anyone with any sense would be equally judgemental, when it comes to the health of their own baby too young to be vaccinated.

A friends daughter went blind because she caught her eye on a coat hook at school - really really unfortunate freak accident. Just to make the point that unfortunate luck can happen to anyone; vaccinated or not.

The fact any human can think a government should have rights over another human beings body, is utterly insane.

I meet people in theirs 90s that decline the flu vaccine every year. Not everyone is a follower. Should they go to prison too?

Do you leave the house?

It's quite irrational to think in that way... The risk is so minimal and I'm sure the PPs parents see that it could've been so much worse.

No way would I take that risk with my baby. I can't bear anti-vaxxers, the worst of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

One of my brothers is blind due to childhood measles (pre the vaccine). In my view, vaccination should be mandatory and anti-vaxxers should do time. It's extreme antisocial behaviour. Don't let this child near your baby.

If your baby is breastfed they will have your immunity.
You sound a bit unkind about your inlaws.
I don’t think there’s a huge risk. And I’m most definitely not an antivaxer.

It's about managing risks. Unvaccinated higher risk.

You went partially deaf, wouldn't you want to minimise the risk of that happening to others?

Even so if you dont have it then you cant pass it on.

I didnt pass it on to my brothers. And one of them was too young to be vaccinated

And you're far less likely to have it if you're vaccinated. Therefore unvaccinated people are higher risk

I had measles as a 5 year old. It left me partially deaf. What was stopping me spreading it to my younger brothers before the rash comes out. You just dont know who might be carrying anything

However people canmot spread a virus they DO NOT HAVE. Its as simple as that. Whether vaccinated or not if you dobt actually have something then you cant spread it

Why do so many posters keep saying that an unvaccinated toddler without measles is no less infectious than a vaccinated toddler without measles?

Surely they are aware that diseases can be highly contagious in the period before symptoms appear?

Why would you take the risk of knowingly exposing your baby to an unvaccinated toddler who is inevitably higher risk than a vaccinated one?

And tbh, why would you want your child around other adults who have shown themselves to be so negligent anyway?

So now you know someone with the virus, but who hasn't developed the rash, can spread it. Does that change your opinion?

I think it's lovely that the half-brother feels all his half-siblings are part of a family, but I absolutely would not want my baby meeting a toddler who didn't have the MMR.

My DS got rubella from an unvaccinated toddler in nursery 25 years ago, when DS was 10 months, so before he was old enough to have the MMR.

Luckily it was a mild case for my DS, but I was so worried that he might pass it on to a pregnant woman who could have birth complications. And the fact that the unvaccinated child could easily have brought measles into the nursery rather than rubella, and caused significant damage.

As others have said, anti-vaxers need to understand that there are consequences for their beliefs.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-measles-guidelines/measles-factsheet

A person with measles can spread the infection in the 4 days before they get the rash until 4 days after they develop their rash.

I did read the thread thanks. But unless you stay in the house and go nowhere ubtil baby is 13 months then its the same risk. It only works for first children anyway as a vaccinated child can still pick up measles at school and bring home And an unvaccinted toddler who doesnt have measles is no higher risk that one that is vaccinated and doesnt have measles

This is bizarre. If you don’t want to catch measles then you stay away from people with measles, their vaccination status is irrelevant.

Unless you think non-vaccination neutralises measles and makes it invisible?

I also had measles when i was 9. Measles depletes your immune system for 3 years. I hadweeks off school with chronic tonsillitis the following year. So bad they were removed when it was no longer fashionable to whip out tonsils.

known risks vs unknown risks

try reading the thread

Hope but not know. And you dont take baby to supermarkets, school runs doctors surgery etc? What when you are queuing for their first lot of jabs at 2 months. How do you know every other child and sibling there has been vaccinated

What if it had been your own toddler who COULDNT have the vaccine? What do you do? Bung them into care for a year until the baby was vaccinated?