To cancel Dd1's MMR injection

[Marne]

Because the appointment is on her birthday?

It seems a bit meen to upset her on her birthday and i know it will upset her.

YANBU. As long as you can get another appointment fairly quickly, I don't see the problam.

Presumably you mean postpone though, rather than cancel? In which case YANBU as it's quite usual for children to be 13 months or so when they have their MMR.

Its her pre-school booster (MMR)

She's so excited about her 4th birthday it seem's a bit mean to take her.

I will phone up the gp's today, hopefully they will do it the week after.

It'll be fine. Seems a bit odd for them to have scheduled it for her birthday in the first place really.

YANBU! It can always be rescheduled for the following week.

oh if it's her fourth birthday that day, definitely postpone the injection.

I postoned DDs 6 times during the summer holidays!.. each time I postoned due to being away etc they kept sending me another appt too quickly so we were still away or we had already planned trips out with other people etc.

They kept telling me no problem to postpone so I did if it wasn't convenient.

Give them as much notice as possible so they can give the appt to someone else.

It's fine as long as it's rebooked and she gets it in the end. I think i would have done the same in your position, you don't want them upset on there birthday!!!

my children are unvaccinated

My 16 month old has her MMR on Thursday AND IM SCARED! {sad}
I'm being silly arent I?

no you are being a good parent!

yanbu. No-one should have a jab on their birthday.

who will be upset - you or her? If you don't want to do it, don't do it. A few days isn't going to make any difference (unless someone comes to her party with measles, mumps, or rubella...)

I had the joy of both ds having MMR and dd having MMR booster today.

Oh what fun we had.

Would have been better if ds hadn't pooed just before we were called in. and if it wasn't a bit runny because he's teething. and if it hadn't escaped his nappy ALL over me as he had his injection.

And then would have been better if dd hadn't gone into complete dying swan mode, unable to walk after. And screaming "but why mummy? why did that nurse do holes in me mummy? No, don't talk mummy! Why mummy?"

Both absolutely fine now - and poo clothes (mine) in wash.

Anyway, sure it will be fine - but don't do it on her birthday!!!

M arne-YANBU at all! Pollmesiter YANB silly at all. Again it shows you are a good parent. FYI DD1 had separate jabs and DD2 had the MMR and was happy with both decisions but DD2 was absolutely fine. Good luck.

She had it....shes fine (although her eczema seems to have flared up a bit) A few screams but a wee box of raisins put paid to that. Nurse said I could save the Nemmococcul booster (or whatever its called ) for another time if I wanted. Which I took her up on.