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IgG antibodies (chicken pox and all others) are transferred to the fetus through the placenta in the third trimester of pregnancy, therefore the immunity to the baby. Note that a premature baby will have less immunity than a full term one.
Liliana Simon, MS, MD, IBCLC
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On Jun 6, 2016, at 12:29 PM, cbaran2112 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I thought there was some information that babies breastfed by mother who had chicken pox would have some limited immunity for the first 6 months? Will need to research this now to confirm.
Anecdotally, my children all caught wild chicken pox...the youngest was 7 months (he had 10 spots)...the rest of the children 19, 17, 15, 12 and 5 year Olds all had whopping cases...the 5 year old the least of the older children (she weaned less than a year before getting the pox).
Great discussion! Looking forward to learning more!
Colette BaranIBCLC, RLC, CD, LCCE
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From: Pamela Poe <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 6/6/2016 9:38 AM (GMT-05:00)
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Subject: Re: Chicken pox
I breastfed my daughter for 4 years and 8 months...I breastfed my son for 3 years 9 months.
I exposed both of them to chicken pox (because I did not want them to get the vaccine) 5 different times...the first 4 exposures did nothing...finally on the 5th exposure at 9 years and 12 years of age they both got them. Our daughter got them first...and then our son got them(so technically his may have been from her, making his a 6th exposure).
I always believed that the difficulty of getting them to "catch" chicken pox had something to do with our long duration in breastfeeding and my immunity to chicken pox.
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