Baby vaccines. starting late and spacing them further apart

[IlanaK]

I took ds3 for his first shot today. He is 4 months old exactly. I did not want them earlier as I felt his system was not mature enough to cope. I still have my worries now. The nurse was a bit taken aback as to why he was so old and having only his first one and made comments about"we'd better get started then" and reminded me to bring him back in a month. I plan to have the next one when he is around 6 months and the third when he is around 9 months. Am I wrong in this? Is it likely to cause problems spacing them apart so much? I did not want to discuss any of this with the nurse as I did not feel I would get anything other than the standard line.

Oh, and have sympathy for me this weekend as I also had ds2 pre-school booster today. I crazily thought it made more sense getting it all over and done with in one go, but now am dreading them both being poorly at the same time!

We live in France where some vaccines are mandatory for school entry.

The BCG used to be one of those vaccines, but they scrapped it this year.

So last year I had my daughter's school hassling me about why she hadn't had this vaccine and needed a letter from her doctor detailing why she couldn't have it.

I fully expected to have to go through the same proccess this year but was blithely informed by the school that they 'don't bother' with that one any more.

Hokay, so last year it was a problem for my daughter to come to school without it but this year it isn't being bothered with anymore. And the science behind this is??

When I asked the doctor about it he casually said that it has been dropped because they efficacy rate is too low. I believe even in the needle happy US they don't use the BCG for this very reason.

Glad I didn't agonise too long over that one then.

Its all mad.

In the US they are terrified of chickenpox. Because they have been vaxing it for years.

I know, try looking deeper and you will find out lots more.

I would vaccinate for chicken pox if it was available here. Ds2 had a terrible case that has literally left his face scarred.

Haven't read the other posts, but I vaccinated DD1 pretty much on schedule 2,3,4 months. With DD2 I just felt it was better to spread them out a bit - I can't remember exactly but it was something like 3, 6 and 10 months. I just said she was ill and that I would rebook the appointment "when I had my diary with me". (Looking back at my own baby book I had them at 3, 5 and 11 months.)

They both had the MMR at about 18 months instead of 13m.

I am pro vaccines - I think we are so lucky that our children don't have to be exposed to these nasty illnesses.

If your gut feeling is to delay slightly then I would go along with that.

I wasn't against vaccines until I took DH to have his first set of shots, the 5 in one, and saw his reaction a few hours later. He started crying suddlenly as in a lot of pain, his legs twitched, and he had no fever, so it wasn't a fever convulsion. He fell asleep right after it. It all happened quite quickly in say half an hour and while I was trying to get hold of the doctor -do I even need to tell you about my total state of panic. By the time he rang me back DH was asleep. He said something about an unusual reaction and to keep him in check. We spent that night on edge ready to rush him into hospital, but nothing else happened. He just had a stuffy nose for the next few days. However, that "unusual reaction" made me think about it. I started looking into vaccines, and realised that because they're so new there's very little research about the effects of these new vaccines, and of course, big pharma business trying to push them into the market. I don't want my baby to be used as a guinea pig. So I started looking at each of the illnesses that they're supposed to protect from on their own merit. I've now decided not to go for the booster jabs as yet. This is in my opinion a good site to get some unbiased facts www.anhcampaign.org/campaigns/vaccine-choice

DS even