Urgent question re; newborn vaccinations...

[becaroo]

My 6 week old baby has his first jabs on 25th of this monght when he will be nearly 9 weeks then I have been told that he will not have his second lot til 13th Jan because "they dont do a clinic the day before xmas eve and you dont want a grisly baby over xmas do you?......"

...ok, I realise I might be being overprotective but..WTF?????? I would rather my baby have his jabs when specified by the DoH!!!!!!!

Can anyone either;
a) reassure me
or
b)Tell me if I am right to be concerned?

(My ds1 had his like clockwor at 2,3 and 4 months but at a different surgery)

Thanks x

HV's do all the imms at my clinic Sawyer. I was a bit surprised by this too

My GP practise is in Lewisham though we live in Bromley, both PCT's have put out a major call to all parents of children who haven't been fully immunised (right up to teenagers) to go and get it sorted. I have had more letters about this than I can remember over the past couple of months. So last week I took my two youngest to get their 2nd MMR's together. I'm assuming it is because this part of London seems to be a real hot spot for measles, so it might be a local campaign rather than a national thing. Anyway I was preening myself thinking how for the first time in 11 years everyone was fully immunised and then the HV said, DS3 will have a third MMR when he has his PSB I'd never heard of it before either.

...oh and the 1st and 2nd MMR's are being given a month apart to babies 12-15 months round here....except of course I didn't stick to that schedule either.

Sorry but according to the LA times in 2006

In a study reported in last week?s New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several Midwestern state health departments examined the 6,584 cases in the Midwestern outbreak. They found that the incidence was four times higher among people 18 to 24 years old than in all other age groups combined. This was despite the fact that 84% of the mumps patients in that age group (and 63% of the patients overall) had received the recommended two doses of mumps vaccine.

and I could go on and on and on....ad infinitum

I asked my Doctors for my DD2's MMR to be brought forward due to the increased risk of Measles,and was refused.

Thanks Obamas,stand corrected with the H.V's.
Unusual though.

Sawyer64 - I suggest you register with a GP round here then...they will MMR anything that moves as many times as they can!

Sawyer said "The figures I have read is 2-5% are not protected 1st time round,presumably some of these ,or most of these, are then protected with the 2nd one."

But why the assumption that the second jab will mop up any who are not gaining immunity from the first jab. That is my point. It isn't maths is it.

If a child is given a jab and it does not work (for that child) why is there any assumption that giving the same jab a second time will react differently?

I have been given jabs to provide local anesthetic and it didn't work. It didn't work everytime. It didn't suddenly start working after being given multiple times. For some reason it doesn't work on me. End of.
(Interestingly though even with that 'jab' the medical staff were determined to ignore my protests of 'ow' 'ow' and finally 'fucking owwww' and just keep on jabbing until they eventually conceeded 'err, its not working is it' )
Why is there a sweeping assumption that if we just repeatedly do the same thing again and again we will suddenly get a different result.
Is that not the very defintion of stupidity?