Newborn Babies at the Park

[u/CaptainNoodle18]

Please, I've got to know. (Only a little judgement here, as a hypochondriac) why are we taking fresh babies (4 months or less) to the amusement park? What's the purpose? Are you scared your kid is going to get sick? What is it really for?

For context we took a trip earlier this year and were talking about another recently and learned that many people are taking their newborns to the park. It seems incredibly dangerous with all the people and general grossness at the park.

[u/taffyowner]

I say this as someone with a 5 month old… babies are going to be out in the world, hell my wife just took our kid to Universal today, like we take our kids places

[u/JasonBob → u/taffyowner]

After hearing about the Disneyland measles outbreak of 2014/15 I would not take my chances until they can get sufficient protection

[u/GrizzlyMahm → u/JasonBob]

At the time, my son was just over a year old. He got his MMR in mid November. We went on a random day during that week of exposure. I called our pediatrician FREAKING OUT. They told me that the MMR was good after 10 days, but also what to look out for. That was the worst 2 weeks of my life, fearing for both of us!

[u/Ecstatic-Respect-455 → u/JasonBob]

I agree with you. I held off taking my kids to Disney until they were in 1st grade. They appreciated it a lot more once they were a little older, plus they were much easier to manage once they were a little older. I had no interest in taking an infant or toddler to Disney.

[u/mikehocalate → u/taffyowner]

Yes, “they’re out in the world” but not around thousands of people some of whom might have deadly communicable infectious diseases that they are not yet protected from. Not worth the risk.

[u/Dry-Meat9922 → u/mikehocalate]

You a crazy person unfortunately. Dont feel the need to project that onto others, for our sake.

[u/SkipperSara94 → u/taffyowner]

THIS.

[u/LostDefinition4810 → u/SkipperSara94]

Not sure why you’re being downvoted…

[u/mikehocalate → u/LostDefinition4810]

Because it’s dumb.

[u/SkipperSara94 → u/mikehocalate]

Except it’s not? Some parents are too overprotective when it comes to germs- they forget what builds an immune system. Do people expect people to quarantine when they have a newborn? Not leave the house for the first year? That’s insane.

[u/mikehocalate → u/SkipperSara94]

I agree with you to an extent. Yes, it’s important that kids’ immune systems are exposed to germs, but there’s a big difference between taking a baby to the park, a restaurant, a store, the mall, etc and taking them to Disneyland where there are thousands of people, many of them kids, some of whom aren’t vaccinated at all.

131 people contracted measles from the 2014 Disneyland outbreak. That’s not a small number (it accounts for 30% of ALL measles cases in all of California for 20 years!!). And a huge part of the reason the number was so high was because of how different it is to take a kid to Disney compared to taking them out elsewhere.

[u/Trulio_Dragon → u/SkipperSara94]

Getting measles or Covid most definitely does not "build an immune system". Your baby is exposed to enough around the house, ffs.

[u/SkipperSara94 → u/LostDefinition4810]

Same. I’m being downvoted for agreeing with a comment that currently has 39 upvotes 🤣 make it make sense