In a message dated 00-04-08 16:43:36 EDT, you write:

<<
 Actually chicken pox, varicella, is one of the few that doesn't pass
 immunity too well from mother to baby. >>
Do I ever concur!  I had a wretched case of chicken as a youngster 2X.  My
oldest son contracted chicken pox around 12 months of age and had about 6 - 8
pox total.  How wonderful I thought - such a mild case.  Should've held my
tongue.  At age 6 he came down with one of the worst cases of chicken pox
I've seen - pox inside and outside - everywhere.  One of those wild mutant
strains no doubt.  Son number two had the same thing.  The boys were sick
sequetially (of course) so we were essentially quaratined for a month - it
was awful.  When daughter came along and the vaccine was available - she got
it.  Figured we'd already paid our dues with 4 cases and only 3 kids!

Unfondly remembering,

Gretchen Andrews, BA, IBCLC
private practice, Redlands, CA, USA

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