To think if you choose not not vaccinate your child you should be accepting of the fact that later years you may well be called an UTTER ARSE!

[HoneyDragon]

And that if you did make this decision at least try and bloody well remember what child hood diseases your child has had.

I have just informed my mother she is an arse. She has taken it well. The arse.

DS1 & 2 had all their immunisations and still got whooping cough.

TiggyD, I think you may be on to something....

Oh, sorry to hear that Otter :( That's what I was told - perhaps it's incorrect, then.

Depends on your age - a lot of people my age were not innoculated for whooping cough because it caused pertussis vaccine encephalopathy, as happened to a biy in my road, slightly older than me. He was reduced to a baby like state, laying in a cot we all used to go and visit him, I remember when he died too, when he was 18

So people do have reasons, although I agree the benefits outweigh the side effects.

I had measles, german measles, mumps too, and I would have been innoculated against those. It doesnt prevent catching the disease later in life; the innoculation is 'live' and introduced in such a small does that the body builds up a degree of immunity to it. Some vaccines don't last for ever, otherswsie you wouldnt need a tetanus every 10 years.

I had mumps! Does this mean my mum is an arse too???

I remember the polio trauma because I had to take it orally and then got a jelly tot!

Late '70s here so I know I wouldn't have had mumps vac.
Samuel dunno phone her and see what she says

Samuel did you not get a 'nearly nice' sugarcube followed very quickly by a lolly and a sticker?

Is it just mothers of un-vaccinated children who are arses? Fathers get a free pass on these decisions?

I am number 2 of 4 children. I received no vaccinations until the Rubella at age 11 or 12 due to my elder brother having a terrible reaction to one of his vaccinations.

My parents did what they thought best. I understand their decisions. Mumps wasn't pleasant though.

My mum doesn't know if I had chicken pox or not, as I "had lots of spotty things". Became a major issue when dd went down with it when I was 8mths+3wks pg with ds... I wasn't vacinated against whooping cough either in the 70s, and definitely had mumps, because my mum just kept sending me into school with it, & I took out a whole class and wrecked the nativity play!

I took out a whole class and wrecked the nativity play! Sorry that made me laugh.

In my case my father got a free pass, yes. My mum made decision.

I wasn't vaccinated against whooping cough but aged 8 I did get whooping cough. I was really ill, I just have horrible memories of gasping for breathe and my mum sitting crying on the floor of my bedroom while my dad tried to catch projectile vomit in a bowl.
I was off school for nearly 4 months.
Out of interest does this now mean i am protected against whooping cough - you don't get it more than once do you ?

This is what I am trying to find out 5dcs. It looks like having it only provides a limited immunity.

However, from this thread it looks like the vaccination only does too.

immunity can lapse as well. i had the rubella vac at 11,
when i had ds, my blood tests showed i had immunity to rubella (as you'd expect).
when i had dd 2years later.... test said no immunity!
so i asked where it went! midwife pointed to ds! said it sometimes happens...
so just had vac again..
got a sticker for being brave!