Would you vaccinate your children?

[mrsnw]

So children could possibly be vaccinated by the autumn term. I've had the vaccine and my children have had all the other available jabs including flu. I'm not sure where I stand with this one and I don't know why!

[ineedaholidayandwine]

Yep. Just like she's been vaccinated for chicken pox, hep A and typhoid (due to holidays)
Anything to protect her.

[Letshavesometea]

I feel the same as you OP but I'm not sure why. I will go for mine, my husband and has had his already. My children are up to date with every vaccination currently offered. But for some reason this makes me nervous, not necessarily for my teenager but for my little ones and I can't explain why.

[Roselilly36]

No, can’t see why healthy children would need it.

[Fucket]

Vaccines - proven track record over a century or more to wipe out major diseases such as smallpox, and prevents deaths and disability from polio, measles, rubella etc

Experimental therapy - some floral/herbal concocter mixed with apple cider vinegar or some other internet based old wives tale.

There’s a reason why you never hear of little kids being kept alive in iron lungs anymore - vaccines!!

[BouquetsAndBalls]

Yes. Without hesitation.

[Dontforgetyourbrolly]

Yes , and I'm sure parents had the same concerns about the polio vaccine

[daffodilsandprimroses]

My personal feeling is that vaccinations should be given to the individual who will benefit from it. I don’t believe it is right or moral to vaccinate a child to benefit others. So while I am not anti vax nor am I someone who will vaccinate my children and ask them to take a risk to benefit someone else.

[Kimye4eva]

He has had Covid so that is reason to not have the jab in my opinion.

I don’t think anyone has ever said that having covid provides long term immunity.

[MrsWhites]

No, my Dh has had his vaccine and I will have mine but I won’t allow my children to for 2 reasons.

1. The side effects could be worse than the effects of the virus
   
2. The study on children is not extensive enough to convince me absolutely that it is safe.
   

So perhaps in a year or two when we know more about the vaccine if it is still necessary. I’m certainly not anti-vax, my children have had every childhood vaccination.

[bumbleymummy]

@daffodilsandprimroses

My personal feeling is that vaccinations should be given to the individual who will benefit from it. I don’t believe it is right or moral to vaccinate a child to benefit others. So while I am not anti vax nor am I someone who will vaccinate my children and ask them to take a risk to benefit someone else.

This ^

[Alfaix]

Yes ASAP please

[bumbleymummy]

@Kimye4eva

He has had Covid so that is reason to not have the jab in my opinion.

I don’t think anyone has ever said that having covid provides long term immunity.

6-8+ months and expected to last longer according to recent studies. We know more about immunity after infection than we do about vaccine induced immunity at the moment.

[Catlover10]

When they are saying children, is there an actual age or literally all of them?

I’m unsure if I would vaccinate my 9 month old baby yet- but my 16 year old sister would definitely get vaccinated.

[cryh]

@Catlover10

When they are saying children, is there an actual age or literally all of them?

I’m unsure if I would vaccinate my 9 month old baby yet- but my 16 year old sister would definitely get vaccinated.

5+

[Kimye4eva]

@bumbleymummy in which case why are we bothering to vaccinate people who have had covid? Isn’t that a complete waste?

[AliceAliceWhoTheFook]

@Roselilly36

No, can’t see why healthy children would need it.

To protect everyone else. Have you heard of herd immunity?!

[DoggyDoolittle]

@TheRedBalloon

I've had the first jab but I'd be very hesitant about letting DS have it. He's had all his jabs apart from MMR and gets the flu jab each year but I'm wary... Maybe once it's been thoroughly tested.

Why had he not had his MMR?
You do know that the study has been thoroughly debunked since it was published about 25 years ago and the doctor who wrote it has been struck off?

[MyOtherProfile]

@Roselilly36

No, can’t see why healthy children would need it.

Because healthy people can get sick, maybe? Healthy people got smallpox, polio, diptheria...

[bigvig]

No - my children have had all their childhood vacinnes but not the flu jab. There have been numerous scientific papers showing that catching flu type viruses and letting your body fight them naturally leads to longer and stronger resistance against future viruses - and variants. Vacinnes try to mimic our bodies natural responses. If my children were CEV things would be different as I could see the benefit of getting the vacinne. Advice for these types of vacinnes has long been vacinnate the vulnerable only. I'm worried that this need to vacinnate everyone is politically driven.

[daffodilsandprimroses]

Smallpox, polio and diphtheria aren’t really comparable to covid: in the majority of cases it is not remotely dangerous to children and most wouldn’t even know they’d had it.

So the only reason to vaccinate children is to protect adults, and I’m just not comfortable with that.

[plumpuddisnice]

I wouldn't no. I'd want to see longer term data for side effects in children.

[ZoBo123]

School children are given the flu jab to protect vulnerable people for similar reasons to why they will be given the Covid vaccine. I am not sure yet, but I do consent to them having the flu jab every year so I suppose it is a similar argument. The issue for me is around the side effects of the vaccine. Mostly children have asymptomatic Covid or very mild symptoms but most people I know who have had the vaccine have been floored for a couple of days. Obviously if Covid is going to be worse for an adult then yes take the side effects, but children I am not sure I would.

[CautiousBlonde]

I’m not sure whether I would either OP. It’s the unknowns that bothers me.

[daffodilsandprimroses]

I’ve never liked that either zo. It also used to be the case that teenage girls were given the rubella jab rather than all babies.

[gamerchick]

Yes, mine is well miffed he's too young for the vaccine.