Parents, what your reasons for not & for vaccinating your children?

[Sickofit189]

Anyone on here not vaccinate their children?
anyone on here do vaccinate ?
what are your reasons for both ?

did anyone lose trust in the NHS during covid after the vaccine roll out?

just an open chat!

I opted to vaccinate mine because I don't want them to die or be left disabled by a preventable disease. The risks associated with vaccines are miniscule compared to the risks of no been vaccinated.

We have a history of severe vaccine damage in our family. The kind of vaccine side-effects that are acknowledged and documented in the vaccine safety sheets they hand you. Those very rare side-effects, the 1 in a million sort of situation, but they do happen.

so we knew that genetically our child was probably more likely to have a reaction than the average person. She is still 100% vaccinated. We just spread them out so that when she was little she never got more than one at a time. If she had a reaction, we wanted to be sure we knew which shot caused the problem. It meant extra visits and it meant i had to carefully manage the vaccine schedule, but she got everything.

My kids had all their recommended vaccinations. There was no reason not to.

My dd is vaccinated not the covid vax, but I do believe it's alot of toxic to be put into little babies especially the mmr vax 13 months is too young. My friend got her twins partially vaccinated and my sil is refusing to vaccinated her child but she's a bits nuts anyway

I received an email from ds school yesterday about HPV vaccine. I signed the consent form on the spot.

Vaccines save life.

I had the first two and that was it. No more.

Mine are fully up to date with all vaccines. Funny enough I've just paid for my youngest to have the chicken pox vaccination as my brother is immuno suppressed. He loves spending time with his uncle so it made sense as if my brother was exposed it could be fatal. Vaccines saves lives and they help other people who have weaken immune systems stay healthy.

I also paid for mine to be vaccinated for chicken pox too

I've got a brain and I would like my kids to survive to adulthood so I vaccinate them.

@Sickofit189
Your baby is 4 months old, right?

Your HCPs will have advised you whether it's appropriate for your baby to be vaccinated in order to protect her from all the many severe illnesses that children used to, and still do, did from if they are not fortunate enough to be vaccinated.

Vaccine damage exists, and is extremely extremely rare.

Look up the statistics if you're worried and speak to your GP/HV.

My DC are all fully vaccinated but I really believe the Covid vaccine has done untold damage to vaccine confidence.

I mean fully vaccinated except for Covid.

oh dear @Italianita , too stupid even to realise how idiotic that post makes you look!

Mine are grown ups now but have had every vaccination. I didn't want them to get some wholly preventable illness and possibly be really ill, or worse still, die.

I was very anxious- not about the vaccines - but about giving my weeny baby injections (first baby anxiety) so my exh took her for all of them.

Last year when she was applying for her medical degree it turned out he hadn't taken her and simply mot told me so she had been unprotected all of her life without my or her knowledge and has had to have them as an adult.
He's a serious conspiracy theorist, but I genuinely had no idea then.

Luckily, she didn't contract anything, but it made me feel dreadful that I'd trusted him
Obviously, my other children are fully up to date with everything

I'm very pro vaccine. I couldn't bear the thought of DC dying of being permanently affected by something preventable.

I also feel strongly that wherever we can we need to do our bit for herd immunity.

Hearing about newborns getting measles and potentially dying from it because they're too young to be vaccinated is unthinkable in a country where every single child is able to be vaccinated free of charge.

Even if this was real, would "your friend" prefer her DD to be dead because they caught one of the diseases the vaccines provide immunity for?

The reason Andrew Wakefield scandal got so much traction was because signs of Autism often start becoming apparent around 1year, when the MMR is given. Symptoms like...regression. So people did see correlation between the signs of asd and vaccines. But that's all it ever was. Correlation because of age. No causation whatsoever.

This is why my child is fully vaccinated.

@fuckityfuckityfuckfuck are you serious? I’ve already said my kids are vaccinated ffs so I’m not anti-vax in the slightest.

why the F would I make this very real and traumatic story up! FFS. This is EXACTLY what I mean about not being able to even speak about vaccine damage on MN. It’s what left my dear friend feel so isolated and alone.

Vaccine damage is a real thing not some made up theory. It’s on the nhs website and everything.

is it rare? Yes. Does it happen? Yes.
So what are those poor parents that are in the minority suppose to do? Never talk about it. Just shut up, never mention it and crack on with their severely disabled child?

No. Vaccinations should be available to every single child. The risks of not being vaccinated should be told to every single parent of the terrible illnesses they’re being vaccinated against. But the information about the tiny risks should also be given and where to go for support should the rare chance of it happening occur.

Plane crashes are also very rare and you’ve got way more chance of dying on your way to the airport. But they still tell you at the beginning of a flight what to do should the plane crash. They don’t ignore the risks completely and shout ‘conspiracy theorists!’ At the mere mention of a potential crash despite it being very unlikely to happen.

What are your thoughts?

Mine are all fully vaccinated except for Covid. No way I was giving them such a brand new treatment. Especially after the reaction I had to just one single dose. So glad I followed my instincts on that. They’ve all had covid extremely mildly even my immune suppressed kid.

My DC are fully vaccinated so it was a great shock to discover during covid that a good friend not only was declining all the covid jabs, she hadn't vaccinated her DC at all and she herself is not vaccinated. However she also doesn't give them any medication, not even calpol - it's all teas and herbal cream infusions and stuff when they're ill. She is from Eastern Europe and said when she and her parents were younger they couldn't trust the medical system because everything was suspicious and nobody trusted anything. I don't agree with her decision but I can see why she made it. I also wouldn't be surprised if her kids, who have grown up here, get themselves vaccinated when they are old enough to make the decision for themselves.

My eldest 5 are fully vaccinated.

Youngest is partially vaccinated. She has a life limiting condition and has had multiple stints in ICU. Shes had the vaccines that have been recommended and has not had the ones I’ve been advised not to give her.
Thankfully she has the protection of herd immunity from everyone else who does have vaccines and for that I’m very grateful.

Chicken pox caused two weeks in hospital and a stint in ICU, Covid did similarly. I live in fear of things like measles (especially after doing my family tree and realising that my Gr-Gran lost 6 children to measles - 6!)

Measles and whooping cough are both on the rise - the latter is at crazy high levels. Entirely preventable diseases that we have vaccines for. Children will start to die of these again if we don’t stop this crazy anti vax nonsense. It’s frightening 🙁