If you decided to delay or to forgo MMR, how did health professionals react?

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Just wondering about this (and haven’t yet decided) - do they respond in a way that respects your view or do they try to persuade you to have the vaccinations given to your child?

“And between 2001 and 2004, 18 babies and toddlers died following childhood vaccinations in the UK. (Source Freedom of information request). Not all proven but the doctors reporting the links, believed vaccines to have played a part”

Have you got a link to that, please?

15 years ago, my son had the 3 separate jabs.

Rubella, measles and then mumps, it cost a lot of money and I am sure that it was really that worthwhile but it was at the time that Wakefield was spouting his lies.

I don't think that you can get separatd jabs any more though.

Do parents who are worried about the risk to children from vaccination avoid taking their children near roads (as pedestrians) or on car journeys?

I am fairly sure that deaths and serious injuries resulting from traffic will be far greater in number than the quantity of serious side effects as a result of childhood vaccinations.

I think what I am saying is that life cannot involve absolute certainty or absolute safety. But in order to allow our children to benefit from living full lives within society , good parenting does involve exposing them to situations which contain elements of risk. It is simply that as a society we do our best to manage the risks and reduce them to the smallest possible likelihood of harm.

We're in Spain where double MMR is compulsory unless the child is allergic to the vaccine. A friend's child is allergic and this made me realise how important it was to vaccine my children so that my friend's DS is protected too. I wasn't vaccinated as a child so I'd never thought about the importance of vaccine until meeting my friend and her son.

My child nearly died from complications due to chickenpox. Little boy same age as my daughter died the same week. If I could I would have given them the chickenpox vaccine but we don't have it in the uk.

Please could someone with medical knowledge answer this for me??

If your child had separate mumps, measles and rubella jabs about 15 years ago between the ages of 2 and 4, now they are 18 should they have boosters??