Bit worried about ds3's vaccinations

[Rooners]

He's just 1 and I got a letter about an appt in a week or so.

I rang up to ask what the vaccinations are for this time, and they said it's all the random Men C and tetanus? etc which is fine and also the MMR.

I don't want him to have the MMR so told them this and they said 'just discuss it with the nurse when you get there'.

I know we can refuse but last time I 'discussed it with the nurse', the nurse was intransigent and made me feel like a right weirdo for not wanting my child to have it. She gave me the whole spiel.

Can anyone of a similar mind give me any advice on how to avoid an argument? I don't want to be made to feel incompetent, odd, or outrageous for saying no thankyou when he is having all the others.

I think you need to think about your own circumstances too rooners With hindsight I wish I had waited until DS was 6 months for his first DTP but he was at nursery two days a week from four months and the risk not too was too great weighed against the risk of contact - also the nursery insisted on babies being up to date with all recommended immunisations. It was nearly 20 years ago.

If you don't use public transport, if you aren't planning air travel (that plane taking you to toulouse might just have come back from a part of the world where tb, etc, is rife, if you aren't attending playgroups in multiple use premises, then probably you can take a little longer to immunise but it all has to be balanced against the risks of the illnesses.

Yes of course. I'm kind of in the categories you mention - we only go out when necessary, use our own car or walk, don't have any contact with a nursery or anything like that.

So I felt safer than some might, in taking that risk.