T-Dap shot for grandparents?...

[BabyCakesTor]

Any of you asking that grandparents or anyone else that's going to be around your LO get the Whooping Cough vaccine (t-dap)?? My 22 month old had a fever seizure in my arms that lasted 3 min. I've been asking my DH to talk to his family for awhile about asking his family to get the vaccine because our pediatrician said that its becoming more and more of an epidemic of kids under 5 dieing from whooping cough. After having the scare if my life I don't think it's too much to ask that they do this as a preventive measure. Thoughts??

[Wanting-a-girl]

Nope I still havnt vaccinated my two year old... It is really rare for whooping cough to kill a baby over one my dr really assured me of that anyways

[atomic sagebrush]

I mean absolutely no offense by this and take for whatever it's worth, but your pediatrician is fibbing. Very young babies are the ones who are at risk of death from whooping cough (too young to be immunized.) The point of immunization for adults and older children is not because of risk of death because it's not a fatal disease for older people. It's to protect babies too young to be immunized, and those with compromised immune systems, through "herd immunity". It's by no means a pleasant disease for anyone but kids under 5 do not typically die from it.

I wish doctors would simply be honest, because it's the dishonesty that makes it difficult to trust them sometimes.

My inlaws and mother got the vaccine of their own free will to protect the little ones, we didn't need to ask them. I hope yours do the same. :heart:

[BabyCakesTor]

Mine have no problem doing it. It's my DH mother (who works around old sick people) and his moms mom who thinks its stupid to get vaccinated. His mom came to the hospital (uninvited)when I was in labor with pneumonia! So yeah I have to demand it because they have no common sense to do what's best!

[atomic sagebrush]

If it helps put your mind at ease any, the vast majority of elderly people will have had it and have immunity, because they were children and then had children before the vaccine was widely available. The disease confers a way better level of immunity than the shots do. So if your mother in law was going to catch it, it would prob. not be from the older folks she works with. :)

[babydust]

My mom and grandmother are getting the vaccine, I already got it when I had DD1 and they say it's good for 10 years. My dh has to get it too.