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I know one person who did this and to be honest, I thought it was a little over the top. We did not ask our family and friends to do this and luckily we were fine. I can understand why you want to and I'm not saying it's bad or anything, just sharing my personal feelings. I'm sure many people would understand.

I think its over the top too. I would never even have thought to ask our families to do this.

I would never ask this. And I've never heard of anyone else asking either. I definitely think it's over the top.

We asked anyone who had prolonged contact with LO to get it. So that was aunts/uncles/grandparents.

We didn't ask any of our friends to get it, but they also didn't spend any prolonged time with our child, so it was fine. I would have felt uncomfortable asking them to get vaccinated.

I would never ask anyone to get vaccinated in order to see the baby. I will just ask that people wash their hands and not visit (in the first few weeks) if they have any cold or flu symptoms. TBH, if someone asked me to get vaccinated before visiting I just wouldn't visit.

@Ree723: I agree.
My doctor said, anyone who is constantly in contact with the baby or in contact with their food, bedding...

What I did, and rec to do is, keep baby swaddled around them and feed baby with a cover over my breast or bottle feed only by a person who has had the shot. That way, the baby won't be touched. After your guests leave, I'd just wash the blanket he or she was swaddled in.
That's what we did...only my parents and his parents got the shot. We didn't ask anyone else but we just made sure to limit physical contact as much as we could.
I didn't let guets come everyday either. I did like a few a week until he it his shots, then I was more lenient.

Definitely over the top-- we only told our parents because they asked about it. My BIL didn't get vaccinated and he sees C about 2x/month. I would have never thought to ask him or any of my friends to get vaccinated to see our baby.

I only asked close family. I would never ask my friends to do this.

There's a whooping cough outbreak in our province at the moment so DH and I will be automatically vaccinated. We've asked our immediate family (who will be over daily and have lots of contact with the baby) and they have no problems with it. I would never ask friends or people who will only have casual contact with the baby though, that seems a bit much.

We did a lot of baby wearing, especially if someone was a smoker or we didn't want them to touch our babies for some reason.

We asked for anyone who was going to stay with us.

I hadn't thought about personal preference toward not vaccinating. That's a good thing to consider. With my family though, that wouldn't be an issue. I simply work in a hospital, in an area of the country with a huge amount of pertussis and knew a baby that died from pertussis. I just would never want that to happen to my child. But you're right, in that we can limit contact and just be super vigilant with hand washing for friends and only ask family to vaccinate.

We didn't ask anybody to do this. We did get vaccinated ourselves.

Unless it's close family, I would rather put people off a few weeks than ask them to get a vaccination. In other words, if people express an interest in seeing the newborn, just saying, "That would be great, we can't wait for you to meet him/her! The doctor did recommend that we limit his/her exposure for the first few weeks just because of some outbreaks in the area, but let's set up a meet and greet date for xxx date."

Or you could just leave out the doctor part and say great, how about you come over xxx date (that's a few weeks away or whatever you're comfortable with).

Because honestly unless it was like such a close friend that we had known each other our whole lives and were like siblings, if somebody asked me to get a shot before seeing their kid, I'd just beg off and go see them at a later date.

I think that a request like this is over the top and would have long term effects on my friendship with the people who requested it

I'm a bit more worried about this now that we'll be having a late fall baby instead of late spring. I'd def ask our families to get the flu/tdap shot and probably be more protective of who holds LO for the first 6 weeks. I was super laid back last time (though I did ask people to wash their hands the first couple weeks) but all the winter nasties worry me.

I think adults sometimes forget that their immune system can fight off nasties and only result in a small cough/tickle but it can still be spread and babies may not have the same capacity to fight off the nasty.

We asked our parents, and limited contact with friends until he got his first round of vaccinations.

I am in the over the top camp. I have no problem asking those not feeling well to stay away or to ask people to was their hands, but asking somone to get a vaccine is too much. We did the blanket trick like a PP said too.

I did and my friends did. It's a 6 week wait if they don't get it before they can see the baby. But then again no one was invited to come for the first 4 weeks while we got settled. My mom came at 4 weeks and yes we made her get the vaccination. All of my friends had been vaccinated for thier kids so that wasn't an issue.

My friend whose baby was born 9 months before mine did make everyone get vaccinated or not see the baby. I hate shots and chose not to get vaccinated. I didn't see the baby for 6 weeks and at that time, it was still a baby. I'm sorry but whooping cough is a big deal. Many adults don't even know they have it but it can kill a new born. If my friends don't want to be friends with me for that then I would need to reconsider our friendship anyway.