MMR did you?

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DS is MMR soon, I'm totally pro jabs, but there is that niggle bloody daily mail please can you slap me with a wet fish and tell me to woman up
I know its preventing hideous diseases. I KNOW.
I'm just having my first case of neurotic-itis and I need you to make me get over it.

Friend with severely autistic DS begged me not to, she believed it was the cause of his problems.

I opted for single jabs from a private Dr who had been my GP previously.

I weighed up the options and thought the only thing I would lose was £360.

It was a case series so the sample size was as expected. The paper was describing a novel form of bowel disease (wakefield being a gastroenterologist) so yes it only looked at children with bowel disease (he'd have no reason to see children without bowel disease).

Yes but heswall he used the same methods as Prof Walker Smith (being part of the same team) who's striking off was overturned at the high court only few weeks ago.

I did. Brain damage or death from measles worries me. A lot of people are relying on herd immunity.

Ds1 is 3 and hasn't had the MMR.

He'll have the single measles jab before (if) he starts Nursery in September.

I'll look at the Single Mumps (MMR if not available) at around 10yrs old.

Ds2 will be the same.

I'm not anti or pro vax. I think (for my family) the vax schedule is too much, too soon and therefore we choose to vaccinate on a reduce and delay schedule.

I think you need to do what ever you feel is the best for your child.

Yep, all three of mine had MMR.

No problems.

Having said that, I had measles, mumps and german measles as a child and I'm still standing.......

My eldest two had it, my third has not yet had it due to reoccurring infections she had around the time it's usually given, and my fourth isn't old enough yet.

Just realized my fourth has had more jabs than my third due to her ill health, poor wee thing .

All my 3 had it, not to didn't really cross my mind.

I had a childhood friend who got measles and never returned to school, she was permanently damaged so I greeted the jab with relief.

Should add DD1 then had measles and german measles despite the vaccine, but it was very minor and not the complete nightmare it could have been.

Ds had it, and after discussion with docs so did I. Was very glad as when I was 8 months pregnant with dd there was a case of measles at nursery and the HA had to trace any pregnant women who had been in contact.

My friend's dd got measles aged 11 months and was in real pain for ages. Also a friend of mine is blind from measles.

Yes, both of mine have had it.

Have these rumours been proven yet?

My DD had it last year and her booster at 18 months this year.

I was like you and even though I knew the original research was considered to be flawed I still had a wobble but I gave it to her anyway because I knew I was being daft.

Professor John Walker-Smith and Prof Simon Murch were cleared of misconduct not because the original research has now been proved to be correct but because it's not possible to prove that they knew that Andrew Wakefield was acting improperly and it is believed that they acted in good faith.

Both my dcs have had it, and dd2 will have it next year.

I had mumps as a child, followed by meningitis as a complication. I remember mumps as being not too bad, but the meningitis as being awful. It's the most ill I have ever been.

All jabs done and no ill effects. In fact, wish there had been MMR when I was a kid. Measles rendered me temporarily deaf and mumps I remember as being particularly nasty.

Oh FFS. Do the damn thing. The moron who did the study was wrong.

DD has had it, despite having been vax against measles within an hour of birth. She is forrin parts born and it was endemic and kills.
She has had no side effects.

Both mine have had it, ds has autism but the signs were there before he had the MMR and I don't think there was any connection for him. He has recently had the booster.
If I have another they would also have the MMR.

Yes. I had mumps as an adult and apart from being a vile disease it may have caused my miscarriage. It's not a mild illness for some, nor are measles or rubella. All vax carry a very small risk of side effects but the proven risks of those particular diseases are more significant IMO.

No - we paid to have single vaccines. My DD had some bowel problems as a baby and I felt the risk was too great, I would never have forgiven myself if I had gone ahead with the MMR and she had reacted badly to it. As it was she had quite a severe reaction to the mumps vaccine and my doctor said that had she had all 3 together she would have been one poorly little girl. Interestingly our health visitor totally agreed with my decision and was getting single vaccines for her grand son.

I work in medicine and I have read up on it as much as I can. My daughter had her MMR without any hesitation on my part. I completely understand your anxiety as if someone linked porridge with meningitis it would prey on my mind even if the evidence were a pile of nonsense. Once the association is made, it's hard to shake it. Interestingly, every country has their own little thing. In France, there is a real worry about a link between the hep B vaccination and MS despite evidence to the contrary. As an aside, the complications of measles are horrific and in my opinion well worth preventing. Sorry if this is poorly written but on third night of broken sleep (naughty toddler) with rotten weekend rota ahead.

If I were really worried about autism then I would delay until you were 99.9% sure that your child is not autistic, teachers can confirm that to be the case and then have the vaccine. It also spaces out the amount that they are exposed to which is a lot in the first year.

The vaccine doesn't always work either, my niece caught measles despite having MMR.

Large wet fish coming your way, just do it!

Yep, all mine have had it. I have read up quite a bit about it but have been trying to find out about Rubella - lots of the cases are sub-clinical, so does a lower uptake of the MMR put more pregnant women at risk? And that causes autism.

Neither of mine had it, they both had single vaccines instead and I believe they ended up much better protected that way.

When we had to make the descison for ds1, it was right at the height of the who Leo Blair / Dr Wakefield thing, so it was very hard. Exdp wanted MMR and I didn't. I would make the same descison again I think.

What causes autism ?