Flu Vaccine

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Best they stay with you for longer, as if it takes a fortnight to get up to full speed, you wouldn't want them catching the flu from him/his OH/his unvaccinated infant, would you?

Red-Squirrel_2

Is he going to leave the baby completely unvaccinated!

The flu vaccine isn't a live vaccine (unless its the nasal one given to very young children but I think your kids are older so will they be having the jab?). It can't give you the flu, so nobody can catch the flu from you just because you've had it.

The only way your girls would be spreading flu around after the jab is if they were already incubating it before but hadn't started with symptoms yet!

LilElvis

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

Is he going to leave the baby completely unvaccinated!

The flu vaccine isn't a live vaccine (unless its the nasal one given to very young children but I think your kids are older so will they be having the jab?). It can't give you the flu, so nobody can catch the flu from you just because you've had it.

The only way your girls would be spreading flu around after the jab is if they were already incubating it before but hadn't started with symptoms yet!

My eight year old (upper age limit for the vaccination programme) received hers two weeks ago and it was the nasal spray.

Flugelhorn

the children in question (aged over 2) will be getting the nasal spray which is an attenuated live vaccine and not the same as the flu injection everyone else gets.

Red-Squirrel_2

My bad, should have googled, thought the nasal vaccine was for up to reception age.

Dad’s still overreacting though.

Flugelhorn

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

My bad, should have googled, thought the nasal vaccine was for up to reception age.

Dad’s still overreacting though.

It used to be just the pre schoolers (2-4ish) and the older at risk kids got the injection, then they changed it to all the kids over 2 getting the spray. Goes down a lot better with the kids !!

chesky

Let's hope dad doesn't catch the flu from someone at work.

PrettyKittyKat

It seems really silly. If he was that concerned he could take your kids out for the day and his partner keeps baby, and then presumably they sleep in different rooms at his and just not let the kids fawn all over the baby when they are at his. I have a dim view on something like this though as the partner of a man that would do anything to have time with his children and would regular move hell and earth to ensure he had them on his 'every other weekend' even when their Mother changed plans last minute.

I can understand him not wanting to compromise the health of his baby but this shouldn't be at the expense of time with his other children which is limited as it is as he isn't the resident parent!

Ergates

pollyanna24 wrote: »

.. but is there any sense in him doing this?

No, no valid reason.

Blackpool_Saver

PrettyKittyKat wrote: »

It seems really silly. If he was that concerned he could take your kids out for the day and his partner keeps baby, and then presumably they sleep in different rooms at his and just not let the kids fawn all over the baby when they are at his. I have a dim view on something like this though as the partner of a man that would do anything to have time with his children and would regular move hell and earth to ensure he had them on his 'every other weekend' even when their Mother changed plans last minute.

I can understand him not wanting to compromise the health of his baby but this shouldn't be at the expense of time with his other children which is limited as it is as he isn't the resident parent!

Yes but it isn't just up to him is it, you need to take into account the feelings of the new partner.