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In reply to the discussion: None of my children had measles, mumps or rubella - [View all]Hekate
(90,564 posts)... brought everything home from grade school one after the other. This was all well before she was two years old. She was one sick little puppy, whether she consciously remembers that year or not. Her immune system has never been robust from then on. She was the only member of the family to get strep throat, ever, and she got it repeatedly.
We older two were miserable as all get-out, not much mitigated by Mama telling us how she had it worse when she was our age! (Her measles outbreak was all over including inside her ears and mouth and probably other places she didn't want to mention.) Mom was a good home nurse -- you had to be in those days.
Not everybody gets off easily. As far as booster shots go, line me up for the ones I do need: tetanus, pertussis, and diphtheria, and polio if they decide I need that. Known by their old names: lockjaw, whooping cough, membranous croup, infantile paralysis. Old graveyards are full of breastfed babies and children.