In a quandry about MMR for 5 yr old to stop baby catching stuff

[Writergirl]

Hi everyone - first post so please excuse any faux pas!

I'm in a quandry about vaccinating my 5 yo DD - we live in France and there's measles about at the moment. As a rule I use a lot of homeopathy and take a minimal vaccine and delayed approach to vaccines.

However, now I have a small baby (DS) - I don't know whether it would be risky to not vaccinate DD against measles etc if there is a risk that bb could catch what's going round.

On the other hand, bb is not in creche, only with a couple of kids in a childminder a couple of days a week, and I am still breastfeeding.

If it was just my DD I wouldn't give her the MMR - getting the illnesses provide full immunity anyway, but I don't like the idea of a baby with measles etc! Is it actually very dangerous for small babies to catch it?

What to do?? All advice gratefully appreciated as seeing doc tomorrow!

Well I would get it done. Measles can be very dangerous especially for young babies. I'm quite pro this vaccine in particular because my husband's nephew has PSSP after getting measles when he was a baby and now he is severely brain damaged. Of course it's quite rare, but why take the risk? Especially as you say it's going around just now.

Measles is nasty whatever age they are.

Read Jic's post.
Measles can also kill.