--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > And there's a group for parents of twins and > higher-order multiples in > Austin, and the monthly meeting was last night. The > meetings start out > with everyone together, and after an hour or so of > that we go into > breakout groups where we're grouped according to the > age of our twins. > This was the first time I'd been with the new > mothers (twins ages 0-12 > months), and I may have been the only mother in the > room who hadn't had > babies spend any time in the NICU. A lot of the > discussion was about > various health issues, and either we're being > somewhat cavalier about our > babies' health, or we don't have as much to worry > about because neither > one was a premie or anything. Not quite sure which. > I'm wondering now if > Dan and I should get flu shots, and if Sammy maybe > ought to as well. (I > haven't had anything resembling flu since I was in > college, but there are > already a bunch of cases in Houston, which isn't so > far from here.)
Glad the littl'uns are doing well! Just read that a "CDC advisory panel voted to recommend that children six to 23 months old receive annual vaccinations against influenza beginning in the fall of 2004. The panel had previously recommended that doctors immunize infants in this age group against influenza when they had the time and resources to do so...but "the current inactivated flu vaccine is not approved by the FDA for use in children younger than 6 months old." [Nor is the nasal vaccine, which is an attenuated live virus.] http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/75/89781.htm?printing=true Does your OB or pediatrician have an opinion? Debbi who still gets yearly flu shots b/c of working with kids, and remembers how debilitating her episode of influenza was (1 week on-the-couch, _unable_ to leave the apt., followed by 3 weeks of merely wishing not to get up... :P ) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
