Delaying Immunisations?

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ds is due to have his 8 wk jabs soon. I'm pretty ambivalent about immunisations, have read up a little and found it all fairly confusing.
In the end, I don't want to take the risk of not immunising him at all. But I think I'd like to delay him getting them until he is a little older, so that he is bigger and stronger and more able to manage any side-effects (I hope).

What are your thoughts/advice on this? Has anyone else delayed their baby's jabs? what kind of reaction did you get from the medics? If I do postpone having them, how long should we wait?

Thank you

BSE I missed that!

I have put off DS2`s vaccinations (he is 2 1/2)

I read and researched a lot and also went with my gut instinct as a mum (DS1 is immunised).
I got a lot of flack from a patronising GP who, when I asked her " can you guarentee 100% that my child will not become seriously ill after being vaccinated" her response was "nothing in life is without risk".

Hence I did not want to risk vaccinating my healthy, fully BF baby.

i agree with you onthefence that we kind of have the luxury of choosing not to vaccinate because we live in a country where herd immunity and take up rates are high. I do worry about measles for example, as take up rates get lower. And if I lived in India or Russia or somewhere my decision may be very different. I think vaccines could be made safer and with fewer additives. I think the reason they aren't is that it would not be as cost effective and people are happy to trust their gps/nurses that the current vaccines are safe [which they probably are for the majority of children.] The pertussis jab was recently made safer [now acellular] and thimersol has been removed. Hopefully vaccines will slowly evolve and get safer but not without pressure from the public.

absolutely ruty, I hope that it does work that way, I will keep up the pressure from here to make them safer!
I struggle that it is such a taboo, or difficult subject to be open about wen it is so important. I have changed my name on here for example and I make excuses to any meds I come in contact with where necessary.
I have not come under too much pressure yet from the gp but he has started with the polite and helpful phonecalls with useful bits of information for me (!)

I have read so much and still feel so ill informed.