MMR - Did/Didn't you give it to your baby?

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My DS is about due for his MMR and I'm still really concerned about it and at the moment don't want him to have it (until he's older at least). Things like the autism rates going up so much since it was introduced, allot of regressive autism cases happening about the time of the jab, Tony Blair not giving it to his kid etc that are the causing for concern for me. Also, have read things written by people who believe their babies have been damaged by it and that sticks in my head. I know that the people that started the scare had ulterior motives etc.

Would be really interested to know of other mums reasoning for having it/not having it and any advice if possible. Thanks.

My Dd hasn't had the MMR jab.

I just don't feel confident in giving it to her & I also breasfeed her for 2 years, so hope this has a beneficial effect on her immune system.

She did have other jabs, but she had them separately & a month later than the suggested 4/6/8 weeks.

I was a very healthy child who caught measles aged 9. I nearly died.

My son is having his MMR next week. I am nervous about it, but I vividly remember the night I was rushed to hospital with measles.

Single mumps and single measles vaccines ARE licensed in the UK. However, the pharmaceutical companies that hold the product licences do not manufacture the vaccines for or market them in this country.

a friend of mine is married to someone who can;t have babies without seriously invasive surgery, as a result of having mumps when he was younger. he has managed to conceive one child this way but unlikely to be able to have another.

he had mumps when he was 2 btw.

Like mumtoBen i had measles as a child and was so ill,i will never forget it so had no hesitation- dd and ds had MMR at 12months

I am in the process of doing singles with ds. He had had measles, mumps and will get rubella in the fall. It has been very, very difficult to do and if we didn't have a personal friend who is an MD and is doing it out of the office as a favor, it would have been impossible. As it is, I had to order the mumps vax from a pharmacy in Florida as there were none in our area who carried it. However, I have gone through this hell because I feel strongly that there is potential danger in the MMR and I am not willing to take that risk.

Ds had MMR first jab at 14 months, no side affects or reactions at all. No regrets.

My sister had MMR at 5 yrs old (when it was introduced I believe) and she had a bad reaction on her skin around where the needle went in. She had huge blisters and yellow skin. She had her arm bandaged and in a sling for a few weeks, this worried me more than anything!

Yes, littleun has just had it and despite the sleepless nights/ high temp and clingyness I am very glad. The orginal Study that sparked all the uproar hadn't been validated enough for me to take it seriuosly.

I talk to too many mums (not mumsnetters) who havn't had their child vac'd because they'd 'read something about it causing autism' (sometimes they don't even know the name of the alleged condition!)
If you are going to take the decision not to have your chld vaccinated then my own feeling is you really ought to read up and understand the full implications.

I do wich they'd offer single jabs- two parents who we see frequently havn't had their child vac'd (one set havn't had ANY jabs done) I confess I'm actually concerned about ds being around unvac'd kids

Yes, littleun has just had it and despite the sleepless nights/ high temp and clingyness I am very glad. The orginal Study that sparked all the uproar hadn't been validated enough for me to take it seriuosly.

I talk to too many mums (not mumsnetters) who havn't had their child vac'd because they'd 'read something about it causing autism' (sometimes they don't even know the name of the alleged condition!)
If you are going to take the decision not to have your chld vaccinated then my own feeling is you really ought to read up and understand the full implications.

I do wich they'd offer single jabs- two parents who we see frequently havn't had their child vac'd (one set havn't had ANY jabs done) I confess I'm actually concerned about ds being around unvac'd kids

Socci, as well as nearly dying from measles as a child (developed pleurisy and pneumonia), I also nearly died from chickenpox aged 31. My GP said I was seriously ill and could have dropped dead at any moment. She said if I'd have been older or unhealthy I would have died. She said in her career as a GP that she has never seen anyone so seriously ill. I fully vaccination of young adults with the chickenpox vaccine as in the US.

And yes I am a very unlucky person.

thewoman,
the problem w/the MMR is that the NHS doesn't want to offer a booster to young adults/teens, even though the efficacy of the vaccine can wear off over time. this leaves some teens/young adults wide open to mumps at the age when it can impair their fertility for life - not to mention the risk of contracting measles and rubella as adults or whilst pregnant.

DD1 has had the mmr and dd2 is due hers in the next couple of weeks and will be getting it
I understnd why people don't have it done BUT I don't understand the argument SOME people have that measles and the like aren't around anymore so why do I need to risk the MMR

Theres a REASON they aren't prevalent anymore: THE MMR

Who has said that? Never heard that one.

Have not read all of the thread, sorry.

My DS had his MMR, to me it was an easy decision having watched a friend go through the trauma of her DD hospitalised with measles, having contracted it from nursery 2 weeks before her MMR was due.

This was a major concern for me, my DS started nursery at 7 months, before he could have his MMR obviously, and I felt he was being put at risk from older non-vaccinated children. I would feel far happier if nurseries insisted that all children they admitted were vaccinated as it would prevent some of the awful outbreaks we hear of.