Are you vaccinating your young child against covid ?

[LovelyYellowLabrador]

Feel a bit like we have to for travel insurance reasons
but bit unsure about it so just wanted to do a vote to get the thoughts of other parents of younger children of you are vaccinating your young child

yanbu = yes I’m vaccinating mine

yabu= no I’m not

in talking about primary school agar children age 5-10

Nope and I don't care if they haven't had side effects straight after in fact all mine have had their childhood ones but this one not a chance. Maybe a few more years with long term data safety like the rest have had.

I haven't got round to getting the primary aged child done. The only reason I can think to get it done is to annoy the anti vaxer in the wider family, and I'm not sure that's a good enough reason.
The adults and the teen have been done and as yet have managed to avoid it.

I haven’t, part of my concern is that the vaccine seems to impact women’s menstrual cycle the impact of which doesn’t appear to be fully understood. While I’m well past the point of worrying about my fertility, I’m not prepared to potentially risk my DD’s for a vaccine that doesn’t actually stop her getting Covid.

No

I dont see any benefit

It doesn't prevent transmission and its not that effective

I am vaccinated and the DC have flu jabs but I probably won't have them vaccinated against Covid. They have had it recently (DC1 for the second time) so can't have it for 3 months anyway, but I don't really see the need.

No because I don’t see any benefit from it. I didn’t think about the travel insurance to be honest. One of mine couldn’t get it anyway at the mo as she had covid for the 2nd time back in March.

No, because I don't see the benefit for that age group. We are both triple jabbed, but the risk/benefit profile is different for our age group. Also, the vaccine is known to lose effectiveness quite quickly. We are going into summer and numbers are dropping. It seems the most pointless time for them to have it.

No not planning on having mine vaccinated. I’d like to wait until there are a few long term studies on the vaccine, and covid doesn’t seem a big risk for them so I don’t think it’s worth it. The travel thing is annoying though as I would like to take them abroad at some point. But no rush on that, we’ve holidayed in the UK for the last few years and it’s been fine.

No. One has had it with barely a runny nose, one has an inconclusive test and no symptoms.
My eldest is petrified of injections to the point of practically having a panic attack when she has to come to her little sisters Pre school jabs- don’t see the point in traumatising her for a vaccine with very little benefit to her.

Yes all three of mine have had it. My personal reasons are that we don't know the long term impact of covid either and I suspect it won't be pretty, plus omicron has affected children more than previous variants which makes me worried that a future variant could be more harmful to children. We just don't know and that isn't a risk I'm prepared to take. My children have had covid twice- seemingly mild but I'm convinced the first infection has caused long term issues with one of my children as she has not been right since.
I wasn't aware of the travel insurance issue prior to getting them vaccinated, but have become aware of that since and we travel a lot so it has cemented my belief that I have done the right thing as I wouldn't want to take my children away and not be covered for them being ill with covid. For many children covid has not been mild and the long covid kids group has many sad stories.
For me, I do find it strange people worry about the long term affects of the vaccine but don't worry about the long term affects of covid when we are already seeing the evidence that that is far worse. I think there will be a huge issue with health problems down the line as covid is by no means a mild disease and there is lasting damage shown in brains, lungs and other organs shown on scans even in supposedly mild cases.
People have to make their own decisions based on their own risk vs benefit analysis.
I think every individual will do what they feel is best for their children.

No.
I'd forgotten about covid since the war broke out.

Nope, do not see the point at all unless vulnerable. My children have had covid twice, literally just had a high temp for a day. And from the figures, it clearly doesn't stop the spread of covid so I would be doing for the benefit of others, not to protect them

Just to counter this.

www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/new-studies-provide-reassuring-data-on-menstrual-changes-after-covid-19-vaccination/

Whereas what is unknown is the reason covid itself is impacting the menstrual cycle. Little study has been done thus far- but it is an issue and is concerning.

www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/long-covid-and-periods-the-unspoken-impact-on-female-well-being

Yes, 8 year old is booked in to have it on Friday.

Yes, my 6 year old is now fully vaccinated. He has severe learning disabilities and finds even a cold extremely distressing, he also reacts unpredictability to viruses, sometimes needing hospital treatment. He had absolutely no side effects from the jabs and I feel some peace of mind knowing he's hopefully protected from the worst symptoms.

I won’t be vaccinating my nine year olds.

They have both had covid and it was so mild for them far milder than chicken pox and they’re not vaccinated for that so I don’t see why they need a vaccine for covid. Of course they’re fully vaccinated with their childhood vaccines as I don’t want them getting measles etc which, for them, isn’t comparable to how mild covid was.

No way. I haven't had the covid vaccination either. We all had covid and barely noticed it, I will only have vaccinations for serious illnesses.

I’ve just checked the Uk vaccination schedule for children and Covid isn’t on it . www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/nhs-vaccinations-and-when-to-have-them/
In any case many countries including the USA (afaik) are not requiring Covid vaccine for children. Just the adults.

No we aren't.
We were vaccinated as where we are there was a great bribe to be vaccinated in exchange for more freedom. So we did it. Kids couldn't be done then. And now there has been a third shit with talks of a fourth. We only had the first about 8 months ago and now they want to bring in number 4? This leads me to be sceptical of its effectiveness and usefulness. So I'm not against it I just don't think it works very well and having boosters every 3 months isn't the answer. We aren't having any further ones ourselves.

Nope. Not youngest DD. (8)

Me and my 3 older DDs (20s) have had it, and it messed up the monthly cycles of all 4 of us.

We have no plans to go abroad anytime soon, and if having DD4 vaccinated remains a condition of going then we wont go until she is a lot older.

Your OP isn't clear on what you mean by young child?
My just turned teenager, was up to him at the end of the day.
Not me.
Ditto with older teenager.

Yep, for travel reasons. Both have had the vaccines with no side effects, which replicated our experience.

For me, I do find it strange people worry about the long term affects of the vaccine but don't worry about the long term affects of covid

Well most people have had covid at least once, and the vaccine doesn't stop you getting anyway.

I think the reason they are vaccinating children is because they've bought a load of vaccine and don't want to waste it. Similar to the reason they were handing out lateral flow tests

Not yet.

I'm very pro vaccination, DD(5) is vaccinated against everything + chickenpox.

I don't want to vaccinate her against Covid until we know more about the l/t effects of the vaccine. When I decided to get vaccinated (x2 + booster) I did so knowing I'm post-pubescent, and I won't be having any more children. She has so much developing to do, I'd rather watch and wait for a while before we decide to have her vaccinated.

She's had Covid (once, that we know of, Delta era) and was completely asymptomatic. She avoided Covid in March this year when DH and I caught it.

Also my Dad died from covid related complications. So I've tended to err on the side of caution.