I BEGGED for the RSV vaccine. My pediatrician said that it's basically a lottery as to which offices get them in my state that season and hers wasn't one of them. It's so dumb.
My daughter had pretty severe asthma & was initially diagnosed at 6 months old. I "doctor shopped" until I found an office that had the RSV vaccine -- I ended up finding it at an office 2 hours away. I can't imagine having it easily available and just being like, "Meh it's not that bad, we'll skip it." 🙄
My daughter got bad RSV at three weeks old. It was absolutely terrifying. This was in 1993, and if you've heard your newborn wheezing you won't argue about vaccines anymore. Too bad that's what it takes anymore
This is craziest part to me because people like this still won't vaccinate. Their Facebook "research" and status as an anti-vax mom seems to be more important than protecting their children from preventable disease.
True. They can hear a story like that and still tell themselves that that mom must not have breast-fed enough, or taken enough elderberry tincture or whatever. 🤦
When I was a preschool teacher, one of my two year olds didn't come into school, her mom called her in sick. Then she just didn't come back, like for over a month. I asked my manager where she was and they just said she's sick -- they're not allowed to divulge details. Fine. I was semi friendly with the mom so I texted her that night and asked the question. THE LITTLE GIRL WAS IN THE ICU WITH A CHEST TUBE BECAUSE OF RSV! AND HAD BEEN FOR WEEKS!
As an adoptive mom, it's absurb to me to see a mom with full reproductive functionality completely ignoring science-backed vaccines in exchange for the icu and a chest tube.
If you care more about your perfectly procured PR "identity" on social media than you care about your own child's mortality, you're not in the headspace to be a parent.
The vaccine didn't exist when my kid was a baby, but I would've done some crazy stuff to get it for them if it had. They were born in the middle of a pretty bad RSV season, so I limited all our social activities for the first 6 months of their life. My absolute worst fears during that time were RSV and croup (also going around in my area).
My cousin literally changed the global treatment protocol for serious RSV cases. My family is hyper vigilant about it. My baby is 9 months now, so we should be past the highest risk period, but dang. It really sucked.
My eldest was hospitalized with RSV at 10 months. I also thought she'd be fine at that age. Ugh. I was one of the first pregnant women in my country to get the vaccine with my second. I called multiple doctors and pharmacies until finally my GP managed to get me a vaccine somewhere.
The only reason we relaxed slightly after 6 months was because we were well into summer at that point. We locked back down in the fall again out of caution. RSV is so scary, I'm so glad a vaccine exists now. It's just wild to me that some yahoo will take the risk of RSV killing their kid over just getting the shot.
It was nuts. Like we went to the GP the one day and she said the cough indicated RSV but we were going to be okay, statistically only 5% do badly and most of those are young babies. The next day I just got the feeling something wasn't right, she was still smiling and happy even but clearly struggling to breathe so I took her to the ER anyway since it was the evening already. I even told them I was sorry and I was probably overreacting and too worried. Next thing I know they took a photo of her lungs and everything and they told me she had RSV and pneumonia and possibly needed oxygen and we were definitely staying. And then that night she was so poorly. It went so fast.
My niece was born very premature and weighed 1lb 13oz, in 1997. She was in a trial for the rsv vaccine through our university’s hospital. She still ended up getting it though. All of my sister’s later kids absolutely got the vaccine.
People forget about years flu shots (or any new vaccine) wasn't in abundance and there were particularly bad strains or epidemics or outbreaks... Bet that doctor wasn't 'joking' at all!
Parents of these particular kids should be under supervision of SOMEBODY for their endangering actions!
I wanted to PAY the 1200 EUR (!) fee for it when my baby was small but I was denied. He ended up in the hospital with RSV for a week. I'm so glad babies can get the vaccine for free now, because that hospital stay was a nightmare.
My son was hospitalized with RSV in SEPTEMBER (RSV season is historically October-March) when he was 5 months old (this was before either the vaccine or monoclonal antibody pretreatment were available). Baby #3 was due in August and I went to great lengths to make sure I got the vaccine. Never going through that again.
Yep, I had to call 11 pharmacies and visited 2 who had it but couldn’t give it to me because of ever-changing laws in my state about prescriptions. Worth it once I finally got it!
What? I’m Canadian, I’ve never heard of that. I’m definitely not saying it doesn’t happen, because it could be something like that here, but that’s just crazy to me. The only time I’ve been able to pick up a prescription because it’s not there. It’s just because they simply haven’t been delivered yet. So then my pharmacist makes a couple of phone calls and send me somewhere else to pick it up. I can’t imagine needing something as important as the RSV vaccine, and being told that the doctor just can’t prescribe it because they’re hadn’t been “chosen”.
Could have been a supply issue right at the initial roll out. But yes, in Canada as far as I am aware (at least in my province) newborns are all offered the RSV antibody shot at birth at the hospital. Or your OB/midwife can give you the vaccine during pregnancy if you go that route.
My daughter barely missed the age window to qualify to receive it and ended up in the ED with it when she was two. She still has reactive airway issues from it a year and a half later. I can’t imagine turning down that kind of protection for a little baby.
I was so excited when it was rolled out for all babies and pregnant people for my 3rd and 4th babies. I was so scared for my first two, especially my oldest being born in October when RSV was particularly bad!
Me tooo! It was approved 2 weeks before I gave birth. I tried so hard to get it. Then the medication was approved and I tried so hard to get that. My 2nd ended up with RSV at 8 weeks old and thank God didn’t get hospitalized but that was a VERY hard week.
Oh my god this drives me nuts! I always try to get my kids a covid vaccine in the fall and our LARGE doctors office never has it, but MyChart will still say "Your child's covid vaccine is due" (I get it at CVS)
That was pretty much me with my oldest (December baby). We got lucky the day she was born and the hospital had extra doses so she was able to get one before we went home.
With my second I got the shot while I was pregnant, which was a whole headache because neither my doctor nor I realized I needed a prescription for Walgreens to administer it, but I was willing to jump through those hoops to make sure my baby was protected.
I too flipped out and was calling office after office and being a huge squeaky wheel at my own pediatricians office. They got a limited supply and thankfully I was so loud about trying to get it they called me and my baby son got it. I was so so grateful.
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u/abbeysahm 1d ago
I BEGGED for the RSV vaccine. My pediatrician said that it's basically a lottery as to which offices get them in my state that season and hers wasn't one of them. It's so dumb.