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.

Rubella vaccine isn't being manufactured AFAIK so fascinated to know how they are offering it.

I'm old enough to remember the polio epidemics in the 50s. We don't want to go back to that. Hot summers and the worry for parents, the fear of letting kids go swimming. Seeing the kids who had been missing from school for months coming back in calipers and the kids that never came back.

So yes let's remember we only have those low numbers because parents get their kids protected.

I suppose it won't be long before people with those memories are no longer here so it is important for people to understand what the risks are.

They don't. They say they are seperate and then when you look into it they give a 2 in 1 measles and rubella.

All the 'single' vacines are actually combined.

My granddaughter has just been given Vaxelis 6 in 1 for her 2nd Jab. This is new to the UK, uses rDNA and seems to have been slipped in through the backdoor to the UK, pretty much untested. I am worried as this has not been mentioned at all here in the UK, in Australia parents are not happy with it being rolled out. Why has this new vaccine not been mentioned on our media? If I was a parent to a young baby I would have serious questions to ask!

Eh? What makes you think it's untested? It's not a new vaccine. Might be worth getting your info from somewhere other than the Facebook monster shouters.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1157602/Hexavalent-information-for-HCP.pdf

Definitely in through the back door. Not like public health have published a 23 page document about it or anything.......................

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If you were a slightly dim parent of a young baby, who believed everything you read on FB and didn't have much in the way of critical thinking ability, then I guess you might think there were concerns.

I had to give my daughter her vaccines separately and I wished I didn't

She had a strong immune response to something in her 4 month vaccines win combination to her out of control reflux and undiagnosed food allergies she screamed continuously for 72h and she was in a nappy cuddled with blankets as it was impossible to dress her. It was December and snowing. In 8h she had a call from the HV, 3 GP appointments and then a trip up to the hospital to be seen by paeds.
When it came to the 12m jabs we had to have them in the hospital she had the MMR immediately as she was 15m by this point and the paediatrician was concerned about her getting any of the three. I was pretty keen too as my uncle was born with a congenital heart defect due to my gran contracting rubella in pregnancy. I lived for just 8 years. She had the other two 2 months later and the menB last a month after that as it was the most likely to have caused the strong immune response at 4 months. This was confirmed but given her health was generally better. You don't know the relief of having a child finally vaccinated 6 months after her peers. I was terrified of her getting ill or making someone else ill.

My dad lost vision in his eyes due to mumps, a friend is deaf in one ear due to measles, my sister had an awful time with chicken pox at 16. I remember the panic to get all 18 yos vaccinated with the MMR when I started uni as they had under vaccinated us in our childhood and mumps went through my uni quicker than the STDs. I remember my uncle post bone marrow transplant knowing he had no protection from all the diseases he had previously and had to have them all over again.

I wished I had a choice as it would have absolutely said all at once. Instead I had 6 months of living on my nerves hoping to not have another reaction or us getting ill especially as at the time her grandad was extremely clinically vulnerable due to chemotherapy. If it is a decision you get the luxury of making consider yourself blooming lucky and get your kids fully vaccinated as soon as you can