Or is dh, re ds's vaccinations....?

[Moulesfrites]

This is not a pro/ anti vac thread as we have already decided that ds will have them.

Basically ds is 6 weeks old. I am a secondary teacher and my friends from work have been pestering me lately to bring him in to school. So I mentioned to dh that I might take him in next week, and he said I should wait until after he has had his first injections at 8 weeks? I hadn't even thought of it tbh, didn't think taking him to school would be that different from taking him out anywhere else. Aibu?

I think your husband is being a tad over-protective, to put it mildly. However, to be fair, neither I, my mother nor my own children have been vaccinated against anything so I do come from totally the other side of the fence.

However I honestly believe that I'd still think your husband's view strange even if I was pro-vaccination so no, YANBU.

I know it's not recomended to take puppies out before they've had their injections but I've never heard of the same being applied to babies.

I agree with Val.

I am (now) a non-vaxxer, but even with dd1 (who had all her baby jabs) I took her out and about when a newborn.

I think your dh is being a bit OTT.

I think the advice is not to take them swimming until they have had their 8wk jags, but no idea about anything else.

I'd personally wait the 2 weeks (also secondary teacher!) as you have NO idea what's going round!!!

But none of the injections cover the kind of things you are likely to pick up in a school.

Manic, that, I suspect, is because the risk of a pup getting Parvo or Distemper is far, far higher than the risk of a human ever getting any of the diseases which we innoculate against. The risks to a human in this country, under normal conditions, are comparitively minimal even to the unvaccinated person like myself.

I think because it´s a school you are taking him to your husband might have a point.

Which is my point really. It's been a long time and I can't remember exactly what those injections cover but I'm pretty sure a baby isn't likely to pick up diptheria in a school. Or polio.

I took DD to school at 1 week! Mind you I did keep her away from the kids - grubby things them

If you're allowed to take babies swimming I suspect school would be ok. They are more likely to catch a cold than anything you can vaccinate against. But you're both his parents I guess, so waiting won't do any harm.

Think you need to apply a bit of common sense here. If the school is suffering an outbreak of measles then, yes, probably best to avoid. But otherwise, no need to avoid - as others have said, injections are unlikely to protect against most common school bugs anyway.

Sorry Moules - meant that as in you may need to apply the common sense against your dh's over caution, not that you are lacking in c.s. iyswim

Welllllll, anecdotally, as I am a GP, so really should know better......
My DD2 was 8 weeks old when I took her to work to show her off for the first time. A GP surgery so as you can imagine rife with bugs. Everyone had a cuddle from receptionists to nurses to GP.
A few days later she was in ITU with septicaemia very very unwell.
Coincedence, probably, does it make me wonder, of course.
She did luckily fully recover, and is now a healthy boisterous 3 yr old.
Wait the 2 weeks what will it hurt, will also make your DH feel like he has some say.