immumisations - not until 12 weeks? in Wales

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I am going to check with my health visitor when I see her but thought I might get some info here.

I've been sent an appointment for my baby's 6-8 week check and immunisations but it's not until March when he will be almost 12 weeks. I've checked with the surgery and they say 'as long as it's done before 12 weeks then it's fine' ... however his red book says he will have another set of immunisations at 3 months, then more at 4 months.

if he doesn't get his first lot until almost 3 months does this mean they will all be done very close together or even that they may do the 2 month and 3 month ones together!?

They'll still be 4 weeks apart, so u will have your 12 week jabs at 16 weeks, 16 weeks at 20 weeks etc, as u always need min 4 weeks between the shots

I did this with DD as he had an infection and then another from week 6-10 and then the nurse was ill so we finally managed to get her first immunisations at 12 weeks. It actually works quite well because they are bigger and have more fat so it hurts less.

Ah - that's good. I wondered as other people in my NCT group had them at 8 weeks - well, their babies did.