Did you/will you vaccinte your toddler against swine flu?

[LadyoftheNile]

DD (2.2) is due her jab today and I'm been reding up about the side effects and am consequently wavering about taking her to the clinic.

If you did vaccinate was your child's arm really sore, did it swell?

If you didn't, what made you decide not to and are you worried about swine flu?
Thanks

Just because you work in medicine doesn't make you an expert on this jab, my sister works for the NHS and is so misinformed about it in so many ways Think how many times there are threads on here about doctors/midwives/health vistors giving duff advice about a whole host of things.

restrainedrabbit again I find myself totally agreeing with you! When I went for my NHS workers jab, I spent my whole time there reassuring nursing assistants that it was fine after they had got themselves into a tizzy reading the daily fail

no - i could have had one as well through work but chose not to.

it has nothing to do with not believing it's "safe" more to do with the fact that i don't believe we are especially at risk and are fortunate enough not to have any other health conditions.

i would rather somebody who did need it have our vaccines

DD (1.8) had hers last week and has had no side effects whatsoever. I wasn't sure about her having it to be honest, but I am glad she has had it now.

Had both my boysa done before xmas, they are 2 and 4...no problems afterwards incl. arms.

have a look at this bbc link....the underlying condition pie charts are what decided it for me. i.e. 81% of U5's hospitalised with swine flu had no underlying health conditions.

As far as I can see, it is at this moment being extensively tested on all the vulnerable groups. The question is whether you want to be one of the test group...