Splitting 16 week jabs

[Laraland]

Have just been contacted by our GP to ask if we want to split DS's 16 week jabs into two separate appointments because of his reaction to the 8 week jabs.

We had a pretty scary few hours where his temperature rose to 39 degrees and we were advised to take him to A&E if it went any higher but, thankfully, it didn't.

For a couple of weeks after, he burst into tears at the slightest thing, having not been much of a cryer beforehand.

He said something about there being less of a risk of DS developing a fever if we have the Men B jab at a separate time.

Thoughts please? Is this worth doing or am I just going to be putting off the inevitable when we do then have the Men B?

sounds like the doc thinks it's a lower risk. I'd take that advice myself.

I would do the split appointment personally

Ask the doctor who's actually medically qualified what he thinks.

My MIL does the jabs for a living and always splits them for single parents or parents of twins (her reasoning, not mine!) because she has noticed that a child is more likely to react when given the jabs together.
On her advice I split them for my DC and neither of them had a reaction.

Yes I split for exactly same reason. Bad reaction to first jabs. No problems with second lot when split.

@Pleasegodgotosleep that's such good news. Thanks everyone, except @whywhywhywhywhyyy who obviously thinks I'm a fucking idiot. The GP wouldn't offer advice: he just gave the option.

I did with Ds for same reason. He also had multiple ear infections which meant they had been postponed so many times he was about 1 year old by the time he had his first bout, and nearly 15 months before he had the remainder.

Brilliant @Witchend - DS did have a cold when he had his 8 week ones but they said it would make no different so we went ahead. Does splitting lower the risk of fever because the Men B in conjunction with the 6 in 1 is what causes it rather than on its own?