Eli5: How come immunization shots that a woman gets earlier in her life don’t carry on/pass that immunity to her children when she gives birth?

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E.g. if a woman has a tetanus shot, why does the kid need one? If she has an mmr shot, why does her child need to get one? If the lady also has a shot immunizing herself from chicken-pox, why isn’t the child also immune from chicken-pox?

Wouldn’t the child be immune from the diseases/ sicknesses that the mother already got her shots for?

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Your immune system doesn’t remember using genes.

Every time a battle is won by your immune system there are a very cells with PTSD that stay behind. They rent a room in the lymph nodes.

When a war is being held that is even slightly similar, they panic. The good thing is they remember how to kill the enemy, so they quickly train other cells to do it.

Because the baby is the equipment of a new country without any veterans, they don’t know how to fight these wars.

The cells that stay behind in the lymph nodes are called helper T cells if I remember correctly.

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