Would you vaccinate your infant/toddler against COVID?

I would for sure vaccinate my infant/toddler. I am pro-vaccines and I would feel terrible if I didn't vaccinate my child and they got covid. 

When my son was 14 months old it was the time of year for flu vaccines. Our pediatrician said he wouldn’t recommend it, as he was getting other vaccines and thought he would be fine. At 17 months old, he got an ear infection and then had an acute allergic reaction to amoxicillin which resulted in his kidneys completely shutting down and a lifeflight transport to Stanford’s children hospital and a weeklong stay on the nephrology unit after a couple of days on the PICU. Two weeks after getting home, he came down with… you guessed it, the flu. ☹️ He almost ended up back in the hospital again and was soooo sick. His pediatrician apologized and said he wished he had recommended the flu shot.

My point is: it was a very horrible lesson in how important vaccines are, even if you think that “it wouldn't be too bad” if my child got x, y, or z. You simply don't know what else might happen that might make getting x, y, or z potentially fatal. My son, without the bout of kidney failure would probably have weathered the flu fine. Who would have guessed he would have had an allergic reaction that caused catastrophic kidney failure? I still hate myself 19.5 years later for not giving him that flu shot.

Honestly, I don’t know. My kids got all of their vaccines except flu shots (dh & I usually don’t get them either). Ds, nearly 12, got his COVID vaccine as soon as he was eligible back in December but I’m not sure I’d give it to a baby especially as the severity seems to be going down.

100% yes. 

Absolutely without a doubt. It is a recommended vaccine and we get all recommended vaccines on schedule.

Covid is still fairly new. I’d hate to find out that in 10 or 15 years, kids who had a bad bout of Covid as babies have some long lasting effect, and/or are prone to certain respiratory illness. I’d hate to be the mom who was questioning science which then led to something worse down the road.

I think I would. I didn't hesitate to vaccinate my boys but they were 16, 19 and 21 at the time. I think it's one of those situations that you might not know with absolute certainty unless you're in it.

Yes, absolutely

I would, I am pro vaccines.

3 little grandkids and they all got their 2nd dose this week.

My 3 and 5 year olds are now fully vaccinated (well, one more booster for the 3 year old)

I absolutely would. I don’t think I could live with myself if my child got Covid and it caused them to be hospitalized or god forbid die and o hadn’t done everything I could to protect them. Babies are so susceptible to respiratory infections. Heck, my then 14 year old ended up with RSV last September and almost ended up hospitalized. Her oxygen kept falling into the low 90s and occasionally into the high 80s. Hospitals didn’t have beds because they were packed with Covid patients in beds lining the walls. We ended up back at home doing nebulizer treatments every four hours and monitoring her oxygen levels. She missed two weeks of school.

The correct question is why wouldn't you?

I always wonder when people tell me they were sick after a vaccine so they’ll never get it again: if the vaccine ( with just a spike protein from the virus in covid’s case) made you so sick, what do you think the actual virus would do to you?