None of my children had measles, mumps or rubella -

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42. As always, potential for high profit comes at the cost of high risk

You never had to worry about these diseases in your adult life because you survived mumps and measles without any lasting damage. Many other children were not so lucky. The boy who would have been an uncle of mine was crippled by polio and died of related complications a little while later.

I wish I had your obviously robust immune system. Alas, I don't and my kids most likely also don't... genetics and all that... I'm not going to take any chances with potentially deadly or disfiguring diseases that are entirely avoidable today.

Chickenpox and rubella are where I'm with you, partially. For a child, these tend to be nothing more than an extreme annoyance at worst and having them as child almost never gives any complications. If you haven't had them in your childhood you should consider vaccination as for an adult these can get quite nasty - in the case of rubella it's downright reckless not to get immunization as a woman planning to have a child. You put your unborn at a very real risk of serious disability.

Regarding breastfeeding: on that I'm with you 110%