Back in the '90's or early 2k's families were having contagion parties for their kids to create illness and natural immunity.
Measles can be a bitch for babies and for old dirts.
My mom took me to a couple of those in the mid 60's.
Sounds like your mom was way ahead of the curve.
It was a very common thing back then. Even though I had the measles vaccine (not sure about chicken pox or whooping cough, did have the polio on the sugar cube and the smallpox that left a scar on my arm), they told my mom, if I did get measles, it wouldn't be as bad.
I did get measles, chicken pox and whooping cough, although I never did get mumps.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I had pox parties for both Measles and Chicken Pox. Would have been in the mid-late 80s
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