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

Well illness has got in the way of today's vaccination but will be definitely vaccinating as soon as possible!

Thanks so much for all the bites and thoughts

Votes

I might get my 9 year old done before Autumn. I'm keeping an eye out for more information about the Hepatitis outbreak too. I was listening to Dr Chand on the radio a week or two ago and they didn't seem to be able to rule out a potential link to children who had recently had Covid so I will be looking at any further research.

There is no point in vaccinating them. As healthy children, the risk of severe Covid is incredibly low anyway so the main purpose of the vaccination is pretty much redundant.

There is no point in having it at this time of the year when cases naturally plummet because it will be long past peak effectiveness before the autumn.

I'm not enthused about a vaccine that makes you feel more ill than the illness. My Covid at Christmas was just a sore throat. 2 weeks earlier, the booster had me in bed for a day, albeit not quite as bad as round 1 which had me close to fainting. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt that my jabs made the illness milder, but given that DS2 had it twice within 3 months (Christmas & early March) he's already sucessfully fended it off, it's clearly not a novel virus to him. In March we made the most of the time off school with country walks and bike rides. DS1 has never tested positive despite syptoms while DS2 had it, so his immune system seems to be coping fine. He may have had it in December 2019? There will never be an answer to what that nasty illness was anyway.

We have no travel plans this year and will see what happens long term. Restrictions are a major deterrent to travel, and there's plenty of places where it won't be an issue.

Now testing isn't mandatory, unless my DCs are actually properly ill, I wouldn't even be able to answer if they've had Covid in the past 12 weeks anyway... once we get past 12 weeks since the last round.

Absolutely fucking not.

Yes my 7 year old has had his first jab

No. Both kids ( aged 5) caught covid a few weeks back and were entirely asymptomatic. Benefits not outweighed by risks etc

I don't see any point

Already done. No side effects apart from a sore arm the next day. She is 6.

The benefits barely exist so even if the risk of lasting (inc currently unknown) side effects is low, it still doesn’t seem worth taking. Even making them feel a bit poorly for a day doesn’t seem worth it.

There’s going to be another wave, maybe another variant come winter. Why wouldn’t you want to get a head start?

If I had boys I would probably vaccinate them but I'm concerned about the effects of RNA vaccines on female hormones and therefore for young girls I am currently in the "wait for more evidence" camp.

While we don't have figures for long covid and/or long-lasting other aftereffects like vascular degeneration, hell yes vaccinate all the way. It reduces the chances of getting a bad case of covid, which we know does reduce the chances of long lasting effects.

I’m not sure about my 5 year old 🤔 both me and DH are triple jabbed, teens are double jabbed. We have all since had covid (apart from DS14), I don’t know if it’s needed?

I'm not enthused about a vaccine that makes you feel more ill than the illness. My Covid at Christmas was just a sore throat. 2 weeks earlier, the booster had me in bed for a day, albeit not quite as bad as round 1 which had me close to fainting

This is my experience too. Vaccine 1 put me in bed for 2 days, shivering and shaking. Booster the same, plus suddenly, my 62 year old body decided to have periods. Covid in late March was a fucking breeze... sore throat in the mornings only.

Been wondering about this too. I encouraged my young teen to take the vaccine as I think it’s more worthwhile for him. But his younger siblings aged 10 and 8 both had covid so mildly that I can’t see why they should be vaccinated. I’m certainly not doing it for herd immunity, I think the young have already done enough by missing enormous chunks of their education. And I feel that a natural infection will boost their immunity.

myself I am triple vaccinated and was eager to do so.

just remain very unconvinced it’s in the children’s interests

Yes.

Dd is 8 and has had her first one. Second is due now but due to various prebooked events it has been delayed a couple of weeks.

She is immunosuppressed. She had a relatively mild dose of covid just before Christmas 2021. However, whilst her traditional symotoms were mild, the fatigue lasted for over 6 weeks. She struggled to "bounce back" and was lethargic and not her usual self for a while.

3 days of a sore arm is worth protecting her from any more severe symptoms quite frankly.

My 5 and 7 year old had their first vaccine in the Easter holidays. My dad has had cancer treatment in the last year and is waiting on surgery. He is still very concerned about covid. They had no side effects beyond a slightly sore arm.

My 9 year old DD decided got herself that she wanted the jab and do she got it a couple of days ago. Her decision, easy peasy

Both of my kids have been vaccinated. Just as me and DH have. I have two medical conditions and after being extremely ill with covid and after it I'd rather do all I can to avoid that again.... and I caught it from my DS! 🙄

No. None of mine have had it, between 4 and 14.

The vaccine doesn't prevent infection so the choice isn't 'vaccine or covid' - it's either vaccine AND covid or 'just' Covid.

For mine, I chose 'just' Covid. Dc1 and 2 have had it once and Dc3 has had it twice. All very mild, and for ds2's second lot he was totally asymptomatic.

I don't think we would have vaccinated our kids if we hadn't been struck down by covid in September 2021. It was horrific for us (most me and my DD) and we had been told covid would be milder with vaccination next time around.

I don't think this is an easy choice for parents to make. Especially when most children have asymptomatic covid.

DS1 (14) has had his first at and is waiting on his second. DS2 (8) has had 2.

They were both very vocal about wanting to be vaccinated and I was in total agreement.

Nope. No thank you. After the reaction I have had to the vaccine that I will I’ve with forever now; why would I risk my children when COVID is negligible to them. My children are also not going to be used as a means to protect others.