Ok so am super worried ! I will ask my midwife once MORE again on my last two appointments I have in my pregnancy cause I’m 35 weeks pregnant but basically what’s happened is me and my partner are having a baby together his first baby! Which is so lovely for the both of us ❤️
But his sister has just had a baby recently , around a month ago and he has whooping cough ! She never got vaccinated for it as she wasn’t allowed to in her pregnancy due to medical conditions
So My partners mum , is visiting her grandson (with whooping cough ) quite a lot up the NICU where his sister is staying with her baby , and where I am giving birth in the next four weeks his mother would obviously want to come up to visit our baby in hospital
I’m just worried if she might of been touching the baby with whooping cough previously and she might have it or something etc and she touches my newborn , is it too dangerous for her to visit? Because whooping cough lasts up to ten weeks and I don’t want anything being passed onto my newborn 👶🏻
Or will it be fine if she still visits our baby? I’ve had the vaccine but just worried! Thanks
Update
I’ve had a talk with my partner because I’ve just got off the phone to cow and gate baby advice line and a midwife on the line said that she wouldn’t risk it as a mother of five!
I’ve explained this to my partner and he isn’t having any of it, he’s saying well what will my mums family say when we tell them they can’t see our newborn for the first two weeks etc and said it will upset her so I got my mum to talk to him and she said your putting your baby’s health first at the end of the day why risk it? You will lose your fiancé later on if for example you risked your daughters life for your family just to be there and she’ll (me) never forgive you for it which is true . He is going to ask my midwife Thursday but she will just keep on saying the same thing that since I’m vaccinated she should be safe but there is still a risk but he will keep on going off her advice but I want to talk to her before my appointment and tell her to say there’s a risk to him!! Not that everything’s okay 🤬
What’s your opinion mums! Thanks
2nd Update
So my partner has made the decision for me to tell her instead of him because what has happened is , his nephew with the whooping cough has actually gone into hospital for he fourth time because of his whooping cough and is very critical right now. But when he was talking to her on the phone he hesitated and asked her himself if it’s safe for her to come see our newborn when born in 30 days and she said yeah of course, but I told him I’m still not going to take the risk as she has already said that when he’s back out of hospital again she’s going to stay at the parents house her daughters house and look after the baby so she will be like a main career then but regardless if she does or not it’s still a risk so I have to tell her now but I just don’t no when to tell her!
I’ll be 36 weeks Thursday and she’s just got the news of her grandson today. What do you guys think leave it till later to tell her or tell her this week?