AHURANI _ When Jess was a newborn ( I think she was only 3 weeks old? ) DH's Aunty got whooping cough. Her Dr personally rang me & said "I'm Dr X, I don't want to alarm you, but your Aunty has just tested positive to whooping cough & being that you have a newborn baby, I have an isolation room on standby at Princess Margaret Hospital as if your newborn is infected (they had been in contact several times over the 3 weeks), she is going to get very ill very quickly. I need you to come to the surgery IMMEDIATELY for me to assess her & you for symptoms'. Well, the 'I don't want to alarm you' completely freaked me out. So I rang my sister because I was nervous going alone. Anyway, to cut a long story short, Jess didn't have whooping cough, he didn't put her in isolation & he vaccined both myself & my sister right there on the spot & free of charge.

Sorry, got all caught up in the 'memory' then. But what I was trying to say, is that I don't think it's unreasonable to ask, Whooping Cough is scary!!! But ultimately it's up to them to either accept or decline.

From memory, I'm pretty sure that my parents went & got the vaccine & so did MIL, but that FIL didn't? I can't remember exactly - but I remember it being a really super scary situation at the time.

Love Jayne

PS _ Guess who's coming to mine tonight? bahahah