To think you should have to tell people if your kids aren't vaccinated?

[Saltandpepperpig]

Just found out that one of my cousins is 'anti vaccinations' she's a bit of a hippy and the irony is her DD has now been diagnosed with autism so all this crap they spout about it causing this and that clearly isn't the case there.

Anyway when I had my first child 3 years ago she came to the hospital to see us, had her kids around my newborn maybe 4/5 times in the first week of my child's life! We are close but she knows I'm not like her in many ways hence why she probably hadn't mentioned before.

I don't know what the science is on it but my tiny baby was unprotected at that point and I feel like she should have told me so I could have told her to keep her kids away until the first shots etc.

I'm very newly pregnant and am now panicking as know she will want to be around this baby in the early days too.

AIBU to think if you've decided not to immunise your children then that's a risk you have the right to take with your own kids but should make other people aware?

Also WIBU to tell her she can't bring the kids around this baby in the early days ever ?

I don't think you should have to tell people if your kids aren't vaccinated. How would it work if you have to delay one or if you come from a country with a lighter schedule than the UK? Should you have to report to everyone that you or your child recently received a live-virus vaccine on the off-chance that they are immune-compromised or pregnant?

It's normal and fair to stay isolated if anyone in your family is ill or has been recently exposed to illness. That applies to the vaccinated, the unvaccinated, and the under-vaccinated as many adults are.

The MMR was introduced in the UK in 1988 (though it was invented in 1971), so adults born before this were partially vaccinated and I think before 1970, usually unvaccinated. Measles vaccine wasn't invented till 1963; Mumps and Rubella were later.

Those of you who are hysterical about your children being around unvaccinated people should realise that lots of parents and most grandparents are unvaccinated.

Oddly I'm on the fence. All of my kids have had all the standard NHS vaccinations up to their age.

I'm pro-vaccine. I'm pro-vaccine because some people can't have vaccines and society as a whole needs to stamp out these Illnesses to protect the most vulnerable who can't have the vaccines by making it vanishingly unlikely that anyone around them will have it so they'll come into contact with it.

I always felt that way, but more so now I guess because one of my children had a mild reaction to his baby vaccinations, but quite a severe reaction to his preschool boosters. I've been told that he cannot now have any more of the scheduled nhs vaccinations (the next lot is 12 isn't it?). The idea that I'd need to declare him as unvaccinated and have people run away from him as if he's a leper is not tempting. Cases like his are the reason why it's important that all the kids who can be vaccinated are vaccinated, surely.

Or maybe by the time he's 12 they'll have worked out what exactly he's allergic to and he'll be able to have the jabs.