I had whooping cough 4 years ago and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, let alone an infant. It’s seriously debilitating for an adult, I can’t imagine how a baby would fare with that.
Some horrible sounds of the disease on the right hand of the web page here. 
A friend told me her husband broke two ribs from the coughing after he had it a few years ago.
Would someone who had childhood immunizations be “acceptable”, and would they need the paperwork to prove it? I had the stupidest hard time trying to convince some company nurse in the US that I didn’t have an immunization card because I hadn’t thought of asking for one before leaving Spain, because here the assumption is that people are immunized.
Not in Sweden, apparently. Adults may not be spreading whooping cough: study | Reuters
Yes, it’s just one study. No, I’m not married and I have no children. Yes, if close friends insisted, I’d get the vaccination before close contact with their kid. But considering the precautions that are de rigeur today, doesn’t anyone wonder how I and today’s parents ever made it past childhood without them?
No - if people are actually concerned, childhood vaccinations for whooping cough are woefully inadequate.
The people who didn’t make it out of childhood without them didn’t survive to be parents or post about their experiences on message boards.
They often didn’t make it past childhood. Infant mortality rates were enormous until the advent of vaccination. Kids who survived often suffered lasting effects such as deafness, reduced mental reasoning, decreased fertility and vision impairment.
Even recent vaccines such as Hib have helped reduce disease and mortality rates:
Twenty thousand kids with invasive bacterial meningitis is a lot of kids each year.
Children who are not vaccinated are 23 times more likely to get whooping cough.
Correct, since I got it as an adult. My MD said that protection from childhood vaccinations for Whooping cough doesn’t last past high school.
Ngh. That kind of passive, manipulative approach would piss me right off, and I’d want nothing to do with you OR your baby. Don’t weasel, be direct. mischievous had the right of it.
Wow. Ignorance fought. I had no idea.
GOOD. Glad we’ve come to an understanding.
Yes. Manipulating people because you are afraid of confrontation is wrong.
Well it’s not about you. It’s about the grandparents and if it works it is painless and achieves what the parent’s want. So the purpose of your whining is…?
I thought it was about the health of an immune-compromised newborn and if Grandparents precious feelings are so much more important than that, I question that they are fit to interact with the baby at all.
Luckily it did not come to that in this case. However I see no problem whatsoever in saying get your shot or GTFO.
If doctors and/or insurance or limiting for you, try your local health department. Every county in the U.S. has one, and they’re frequently more than happy to give vaccines at low or no cost. Get your hepatitis A and B vaccines while you’re there.
I took a look on the CVS Minute Clinic Web site, and according to this page they do have DTaP at their stores in SC (I assume the list is for SC because first I searched for SC locations, then I looked for services…and SC is a query in the link).
Hmmm. I’m thinking I might take my own advice. I’m a healthy adult with no contact with children, but even a minor respiratory infection makes me cough until I vomit. I can’t imagine what whooping cough would be like.
MinuteClinic is great, but be SURE to call you insurance to see if they’ll cover the cost there or at another clinic. For instance, I can get vaccinations at Walgreens Take Care Clinic for free, but MinuteClinic I have to fill out a flu shot reimbursement form and jump through hoops.
My two-year old has an underlying condition that would make whooping cough extra dangerous for him. When he was a baby, we asked nicely that my sister and my mother (both of whom spend a lot of time at the house and with the kids) please get TDaP and flu shots. We offered to pay, but they were both able to get them at a low cost, and were happy to do so. They continue to get flu shots every year and report back to me that they have done so - without being asked.
We’ve got a newborn again. No one has mentioned whooping cough specifically to me. This might be because it’s not such a big hairy deal for an otherwise healthy newborn in our geographic area, or because they all know we got them two years ago. Not sure. Without the underlying health problem, I probably wouldn’t have been as vocal about the vaccinations for adults, but I also wouldn’t look funny at anyone who felt it was best for their baby.
Who’s whining? If you want someone to do something, ask them to do it. DON’T whinge and wheedle and imply and intimate. People who can’t come out and actually say what they want are infuriating, and should be ignored until they grow a spine.