Anyone given their baby separate vaccines?

[CerealB0wl]

As a baby in the mid 90s I was given 5 vaccines at 8 weeks, 12 weeks and 16 weeks. These were for diphtheria, pertussis, polio, tetanus and HIB. My newborn is due EIGHT at the same time! I'm not keen on this relatively new 6 in 1 vaccine. What happened to the 5 in 1 and why is hep b included for newborns? I'm also not keen on the side effects of the men b vaccine. I had a dangerous allergic reaction to a vaccine as a teen so I'm worried about this for my baby too.

Has anyone successfully asked for vaccines to be separated or decline certain jabs without declining all of them? I still want certain vaccines so I don't want to completely decline.

P. S. Please don't make this a pro vaccine/anti vaccine debate. I just want to hear others' experiences. Thank you.

"It's an emotive topic. There was something like 30 cases of polio worldwide last year that's hardly likely to have me rushing to inject my baby"

That is because of the polio vaccine.

It's not an emotive topic if you are intelligent and can understand evidence, and ignore idiots on the internet. It's a pretty straightforward decision.

poor kids. many more needles than needed and exposed to potentially fatal viruses for 18m longer than they needed to be.

No not ‘many more needles than needed’ we had the exact amount that all children have !!!!

We have other children with mast cell activation syndrome and we didn’t want to risk more than one vaccine at a time with our younger dc . We needed to rely on herd immunity whilst we took longer to vaccinate our dc due to their medical needs

I hope for your child you aren’t in the Greater London area and don’t drink tap water.

@mycoffeecup Sorry-I was quoting another poster when I said it was an emotive subject but failed to name her.

I know several premature babies whose parents opted to split jabs up, particularly MMR.

However, when I was pregnant I was given the tetanus, diptheria, polio, whooping cough quad vaccine not just whooping cough. I queried it with the nurse and she said it was because the whooping cough element in particular doesn't evoke a very good immune response when delivered by itself and is much less effective. So thats worth looking into and considering too, if giving some singularly will reduce their effectiveness.

ah sorry I thought you did single vaccines

but still went unprotected for 18m longer than needed.........why put your child at risk for no reason?

These threads always bring out the anti-vaxers like flies to shit.

No we just had the standard nhs ones just one at a time. We felt the risk to dc was more by overloading their systems than the risk of catching the illnesses by being unprotected for longer (but we live in an area the gp said is luckily a high uptake of vaccines and we also knew all our close family and their dc were fully vaccinated) we didn’t have nursery or anything either so thought it would be ok and it was luckily. Our older dc had been extremely unwell after more than one vaccine at a time so the gp was happy to accommodate the request as they knew we had been in hospital after each set of jabs with our other dc . We didn’t want to not vaccinate so this was the next best thing

so no measles vaccine til age 2.5? Potentially fatal infection which is pretty common these days?

We felt the risk to dc was more by overloading their systems than the risk of catching the illnesses by being unprotected for longer

that's scientific nonsense, even if your kids have MCAS

Whatever you happen to think is irrelevant because it’s what we were concerned about and our gp agreed that our proposed vaccine schedule was something they would support

We live in an area where there’s a high uptake, all of our close family and friends had been vaccinated and the dc weren’t at nursery so the risk was minimal. As I said I didn’t want to not vaccinate we just had to find a way to avoid the reactions the older dc had with the younger 2. The older 2 had severe reactions each set and were hospitalised multiple times afterwards and we couldn’t cope with that again but didn’t want to leave them totally unprotected

Yeah, spread them out, kids love injections.

Our older dc were actually much more upset at 2 or 3 each time then the little ones were with one every 4 weeks as they got used to it (one has diabetes too so was very used to injections), they were less upset than the older dc by a lot !!

I wasn’t allowed to have the MMR as a child due to being a forceps delivery.

I caught measles, mumps and rubella. They left me partially deaf. I passed the mumps onto my dad who became very seriously ill. Struggling to see what treatment you think would avoid that.

they're going to support it if it's the only way they can get your kids protected! doesn't mean they weren't internally eye-rolling......

"myself and partner done lots of research on the 6in1 and agreed not to allow it these things cause all different things for kids "
Interesting. Where did you get your qualifications in immunology?

The go also agreed with us about the rotavirus that we declined as both had severe allergies and bowel issues they said they completely understood and it was absolutely fine to leave that one . They weren’t eye rolling they were supportive

University of YouTube!

Nasty, sneering expression designed to denigrate and marginalise those who refuse to adhere to "correct think".

This is why the injured and those with injured children are denied a voice.

All medications have side effects. All of them. So it's absolutely vital that we question what is being administered to tiny babies.

One size fits all is NEVER good health care.

Denied a voice? You’re posting on the internet 🤡 what makes you think you shouldn’t be denigrated?

@CerealB0wl

The vacines change all the time.

The ideal is to give a minimum dose to get the immune system to respond. They don't just get 5 vaccines and mix them together in a jug, they are developed over time.

The actual amount of material injected is smaller than you had, and yours would be smaller than I had. Drugs companies are now working on vaccines with no bacteria / virus, live or inactive.

If you can give someone life long immunity from Hep B then why not?

You cannot wrap a child in cotton wool. Children have stood on used syringes at beaches and playgrounds. If you child is vaccinated you don't need to worry about hep B if that happens.

Unless your child is never going to touch blood that is not their own then they are at risk. I know no one wants to think of their little baby having sex but you can't know that they won't have sex before they are vacinated on your schedule.

And it doesn't have to be full sex to be at risk.

@Caspianberg

That's exactly the same as in the UK.