Vaccinations

[Kait1223]

What’s everyone’s opinion on vaccines?
my daughter has had her first ones but we are thinking of spacing them out a little bit more than the nhs schedule .
should we do this or should we just go with the nhs schedule?

We started on time at 8 weeks and just did men b then 4 weeks later the others (we couldn’t do the rotavirus vaccine for medical reasons though). we then split the other vaccines and had either 2 or 3 weeks between. No particular order we tried to ‘tick off’ one of each sort though so she had wider protection as we were taking longer to do them .
Dd had her c pox vaccine at 12 months, MMR at 16 months and other vaccines just before 2. She had to have a yearly flu jab (can’t have the spray) from 6 months (this isn’t usual it is due to medical issues) and she had her pre school vaccines much later at age 5.

What’s everyone’s opinion on vaccines?

Basically, follow the advice of medical professionals, not randomers on the internet. They won't vaccinate anyone who has a fever or a cold, so you were given the correct advice (by a medical professional).

Your baby is tiny and vulnerable, so just follow the schedule.

We followed the NHS schedule. I recognise that I do not have the medical expertise or access to any evidence that would make it sensible to decide to do my own thing.

Realistically, your child isn’t going to catch polio or hepatitis b if that vaccine is delayed. But they are given in a combined vaccine that includes whooping cough, which is on the rise, so I wouldn’t delay that. Measles is on the rise as well, so I wouldn’t be delaying that one either.
Which one are you thinking of delaying?

We’ve had a few patients wish to space them. The patents have to decide which to delay protection against, not the nurse.
Then children get sick and have to rebook, staff go off sick and appointments are cancelled, parents forget to attend, there is a long wait for appointments .. I’m currently fully booked for nearly a month. I’ve also known nurses make drug errors when parents deviate from the norm!!
Upsetting babies and children two three or four times rather than once seems a poor choice.
Just get them done as per schedule.
Practice nurse.

@Kait1223 Surely you don’t think about doing everything others do just because you’ve seen it? You would only do this if you had put actual time into researching and believed it was the right thing to do.

Vaccine schedules are updated regularly. Doses are given at suitable intervals to best minimise the risk of some really nasty illnesses. Just follow the guidelines and vaccinate your child.

The only way I’d delay vaccine was if my child was ill at the time it was due. But they’d have it as soon as possible after.

Stick to the schedule. Don’t leave your child vulnerable to serious illness. Follow the experts, not random people on the internet.

Especially right now, I would want my baby fully protected against measles asap. Measles cases are rising and measles poses a real threat to your child's health where as the NHS vaccination schedule does not pose a real threat. Easy decision I'd say.