Extended breastfeeding - chicken pox immunity?

[FrannyandZooey]

Chicken pox is going around here, and I wondered whether ds will still have immunity via the antibodies in my breastmilk, or does that only apply to young babies? He's 2.10.

I am not bothered if he gets it or not, me and dp were just curious.

DS2 got chickenpox mildly at 4 months when fully breasfed (only about 6 tiny blisters) and we tested him for immunity coz of steroid usage when he was about 2 and still being breasfed - and he wasn't immune (even with the previous infection and the extended breastfeeding).

Another anecdotal response from me. My DS is still breastfed (by me) and had chicken pox a few weeks ago - he is 23 months.
I took him to the docs, just to be certain, and he told me to keep him so as not to contact any pregnant women etc...
So we stayed in and, but he was pretty bored not particularly ill, and didn't scratch at all. The blisters went and not a scar.
Such a massive difference from when I had it at twelve. It seems a lot easier on younger children.

ds1 was fully bf and got chickenpox at about 3 months.
He was covered.
He wasn`t unwell at all and had no scars though.

My dd2 was exposed to chicken pox at her first birthday party (we only found out afterwards). A few days later she developed 8 spots on one of her legs, which looked like chicken pox spots, but they didn't bother her or spread and she had no other symptoms.

I've heard that if they have chicken pox very mildly they can catch it again later, though.