u/Choice_Nobody_9766

Hey all, I am a M1 and recently got engaged to my fiancé (20F) but I think a med spouses perspective could be helpful. Today over dinner she told me that her mother called her encouraging her to stand up for her beliefs within medicine. I assumed this was in relation to a previous conversation about my reservations about the home birthing process (my future MIL home birthed all 4 kids with 2 complicated deliveries.) Turns out the conversation was referring to my fiancé's mother not believing in vaccines. My partner and I had previously briefly talked about not having chickenpox vaccines when we were children and getting immunity by infection instead, but, I wasn't aware that she also hadn't had any vaccines ever. How do I approach this conversation? My instinct is to pull studies about vaccine effectiveness vs risk, however, I don't think this is maybe the right option. She is open to having a longer conversation about it and not set on either pathway (vax or antivax.) I want to respond as her fiancé and not a doctor (or M1, whatever) but I just don't know how to even begin approaching a conversation like that.