My 3 all had the jabs. Some people will criticise you for it, like it’s some kind of right of passage for children to spend two weeks off with chickenpox. They will argue that natural immunity is better, except it isn’t as I know children who’ve had recurring bouts of chickenpox. If they do catch chickenpox after a jab it’s often very mild and therefore a lot less chance of nasty complications.
Every year there would be mums whittling at the school gate, “oh my god such and such in class x has got the chickenpox, what are we going to do?!?!”
“ you could get them vaccinated at the x pharmacy in town, it costs £x and you can get them done now and it would still offer protection if exposed.”
Them, “oh no… I never had a vaccine, chickenpox never did me any harm we used to have parties and everything.”
Leaving aside the fact I’ve spared my kids the misery of chickenpox I couldn’t afford to take six weeks off work to look after 3 children with chickenpox I could afford the vaccines instead.
I used to think this attitude very odd but since then we’ve had covid and now I know so many who have openly refused covid jabs, and cases of mumps on the rise locally, it’s seems that there is a high proportion of parents refusing even the MMR jab.
But anyway yes it does work, it’s not a new thing, and you need two vaccines as one is not enough.
Good to hear they’re considering putting it on the nhs.