Please be frank, how bad are the 2nd lot of immunisations?

[BlueJellie]

Basically my little DS of 15 weeks has taken a turn for the better the past week. Its like someone has taken my high maintenance, whingy, sometimes hysterical baby - and replaced him with a smiley content bundle of joy. This may sound ridiculous but it IS like he's a different baby! We've had a rough few months and this week it finally all seems worth the stress - he still needs a lot of attention but only in the way you would expect, i.e lots of playing talking and singing.

Well he is due his 2nd lot of jabs next week, and I'm dreading it. I'm scared my happy little baby will be taken away once more and it'll take forever for us to get back on track. I don't really know if his first lot affected him or not, as he caught the bug that was going around shortly after - which made him miserable anyway (and the rest of the family as we all got it!). He also had sickness and diarrhea recently so was ill for quite a while.

Sorry if this sounds over the top, but I really feel like I've gone through 3 months of hell and I don't want to have to start all over again - has anyone had good/bad experiences of these jabs? How long did it take your lo to get back to normal?

Neither of my two suffered with any of the intial sets of jabs. DS had a minor reaction to his first MMR but that is all. A precautionary dose of calpol before going to the doctors may have helped. I think sometimes you're just lucky - fingers crossed for you.

Mine were fine with both DS and DD - I did precautionary dose of calpol beforehand and I think they just got sleepy.

My dd wasn't the slightest bit bothered by her 2nd or 3rd lot of jabs. The first ones made her a bit clingy and sleepy (and a little whingey!) but all the others have been fine.

Don't have them done if the baby is slightly under the weather.

Mine reacted to the baby jabs so has had the MMR separately and no booster.

DS1 had cellulitis after his preschool booster.

My ds wasn't bothered by the second set either, the first set made him a bit fractious and nasty swellings on his thighs, but since then he's not reacted to any jabs. MMR is coming up, so can't comment on that yet, but he sailed through his HIB/MenC booster recently.

Even if he is under the weather, still have them done! They have changed the jabs in recent years and reactions are now very uncommon. A dose of calpol an hour before will help with the discomfort.

It is very important that children are immunised- you will have far more to worry about if they catch one of the nasty diseases because you did not continue with their jabs

Neither of my dds reacted to the second set, and I did Calpol 20 mins beforehand with both. The first 14 weeks were hard work with dd2, and that had nothing to do with jabs....she didn't morph backwards in any way with them

HTH

I have to disagree with you, Isaacsfabmummy

DO NOT HAVE JABS if baby has been recently unwell.

Thanks for reassuring me I am not being neurotic, pagwatch.

You are welcome NAB.

How are things with you?

Very much agree with pag and NAB that it is NOT a good idea to have a child jabbed if they are unwell.

My child is also vaccine damaged Issacsfabmummy so I guess those reactions can't be as rare as all that eh?

thanks for all your replies, I'm so relieved! We're having a lovely time together and I didn't want anything to ruin it, stupid I know! Thanks for the tip about calpol beforehand, I didn't know you could do that. I've only got calprofen in the house at the mo, is it ok to give him that or should I go get some normal calpol?

pagwatch - I am okay I think. Thanks for asking.

Ah Beachcomber. You rare old bird!
Me too. I know loads of us rare types

NAB. Thats good.
Happy New Year

And to you

Calprofen is fine, in fact probably better. I've never got mine jabbed when they were under the weather and they were fine with the first three sets of vaccinations.

BlueJellie you can always space them out a bit if you are concerned.

Pagwatch we are so rare as to not even exist despite the fact that we do actually, erm, exist.

I'm convinced my baby has developed ITP after his first vaccinations, although I think Hell will freeze over before the doctors actually admit it.

I'm pretty sure his sickness & diarrhea was down to the jabs, I proposed this to the doctors and they poo-pooed it (pardon the pun). But I read in the leaflet recently that this is a side-effect in some cases? Fair enough if it wasn't the case and just down to a tunny bug but I don't understand why the doctors wouldn't admit it was even a possibility. I wouldnt have run screaming and never took him back for more jabs?

tummy bug rather lol

BlueJellie.
Sadly they very very rarely admit connection with vaccines - even to parents who would accept the information without shrieking/wailing/suing.
My niece had a huge convulsion whilst still in the GPs surgery after her first MMR. As she was still seizing the nurse kept saying to my brother "its not the jab. Its not the jab"

They are v. worried about uptake and won't say anything to link vaccines with problems.

Its sad but true.

And actually any reaction to a previous vaccine is a very good reason to delay or cancel future ones. It certainly is according to my Paed.

BlueJellie if you think your child reacted to the first set of jabs then pagwatch's advice to delay or cancel future ones is good.

My child reacted badly to her first round, doctor claimed it was nothing to do with the vaccines. We stupidly did the next lot and made things worse (and were told again it was nothing to do with the vaccines despite perfectly obvious evidence to the contrary).

Take your time would be my advice. Your OP asks us to be frank about how bad the 2nd lot were, well in our case they were devastating. Sorry, probably not what you want to hear and there will be plenty of posters who will say they were a breeze.

For heavens sake don't cancel jabs! That is such dangerous advise, delay if you really feel you must but reschedule. People seem to have forgot what diseases we are trying to prevent here...