Well, I finally got around to getting my flu vaccine today and was barely
listening as the screening nurse rattled off the questions - actually she
was making statements that I agreed with:  "You haven't been sick with a
fever <shake my head no>.....  You're not pregnant are you <no>......  And
you're not breastfeeding."

Well.  THAT got my attention, but I didn't feel like making a scene in the
supermarket so I wimped out,  thus doing a tremendous disservice to my
breastfeeding sisters who might need flu vaccines.    :-(   I really wanted
to ask, "Why on earth would that matter?" but to tell you the honest truth,
I figured if the company doing the vaccines was ignorant enough to include
this as a screening question, the person asking the question probably wasn't
informed enough to give me a good answer.  And now that I've had time to
think about it, I am doubting my first gut reaction, so I ask you all:

There is NO reason why a breastfeeding mom couldn't get this killed-virus
vaccine, right?  .

Mary Renard, RN, BSN, IBCLC
Vienna Virginia  USA

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