aibu (and overly pfb) to ask my anti vaccination family to vaccinate themselfs against whooping cough before they come and visit my new baby at christmas?

[honeytea]

I'm wondering if I am being completely over the top. I don't live in tge UK, the country where I live don't habe a whooping cough problem so they are not offering tge vaccine to pregnant women. I went ti my Dr this morning to ask him if I could have the vaccine as we plan to travel to tge UK before the baby has his 1st vaccinations (3 months here) the Dr said there is no way for me to get tge vaccination here in Sweden even privately.

I think we will just wait to come to tge UK till after the baby's first vaccinations.

My family, parents and siblings (one of my siblings is a child) are coming to visit us at christmas, the baby will be only a week or two old. My family are anti vaccinations, the sibling who is a child has not been vaccinated I'm not sure about everyone else.

I have the option of traveling to tge UK and getting the vaccine myself, this would be costly and hard work as I'm heavily pregnant.

and when m children are adults, the can make up their own minds, IF they have the mental capacity to do so. They are both autistic and sometimes i wonder if they'll ever live independently. I assume you have put money asside for them to have them done privatly? because it is very hard to get vaccinated as adult.

I'm sorry you feel bullied leonie, some of the things you have said have come across as very rude, such as you can guarentee your children are healthier than vaccinated children.

Might help if you didnt go around poohpoohing other people's choices I am "poohpoohing" the choice that was made over my own health, I am allowed an opinion on my own health surely, in the same way if a man was circumcised as a baby for no medicla reason and as a grown man he said he felt it was wrong to circumcise baby for no reason his opinion would be valid surely?

you contradict yourself saying When other kids at school get ill, they're out for a week. When mine catch the same bug, they might be affected for 24 hours and hardly ever need time off and then saying your dd was ill for 2 months with whooping cough, your poor dd, but that doesn''t sound like a child in prime health to me.

you also say I You have no right to demand others have themselves injected with sometihng they object to. in no way would I ever demand anything, I'm not chasing them around with a needle it was a request.

I think you need to look at your own conduct before you start saying other people are bullying you.

Umm, I think that was equally aimed at you Leonie. calling someone a bully could easily be construed as a personal attack.

That was honeytea, not me. I guess also a bully?

It was me.

I ask because I know about the reality of trying to get all the vaccines in retrospect.

Leoni Its ultimately your choice to vaccinate your children, no one else's. its just when you come on saying your children are fitter than everyone else's etc, it gets peoples backs up.
statistics from unicef itself re breast feeding rates, I think you will find a high level amongst 3rd world countrys.
www.childinfo.org/breastfeeding_countrydata.php

only problem with 3rd world is their diets seem to be lacking for obvious reasons so the milk produced may not be as good as someone with access to decent food and clean water.

I don't expect she'll answer this as she never does answer anything 'direct' but Leonie - am I right in thinking that you have made your decisions on the basis that the illnesses we vaccinate against will not seriously impact on your children? That if they get measles or diptheria or whooping cough or meninigitis they will emerge unscathed? Am I right in my understanding of you posotion?

If your child had been ill during term they would have missed two months of school, am i right Leonie? So not really the couple of days you boast about?