Is it better to give 1 year jabs in stages?

[fairylightsandfire]

DC has one year jabs coming up. I'm dreading it and have heard so many horror stories about babies being really sick for ages after.

Giving it in stages would just drag out the side effects. The MMR can have delayed side effects. My baby had no initial reaction and then some miserable days a couple of weeks later.

I preferred to get it done when they were small enough to forget about it all. Also small enough that they wouldn't bash into the injection sites whilst playing.

Yes they can feel crap, but it doesn't last long and you both soon forget it.

It's unlikely that side effects (if any) will last longer whether you have all the shots together or not.

The important thing is that your DC receive all the jabs, so if you do decide to space them, do make sure you get everything done.

Unless your DC had a bad reaction to other jabs I would say it's not necessary and better to get them over with in one go. Not all children get side effects - neither of my two had any.

Neither of my children had any reaction to the vaccinations. My oldest just had the three year old ones last week. Not all kids do and getting them over in one go is kinder imo.

No. There's another big thread on this and no one there has come up with any evidence other than 'I don't want to give them all together'

It's better to get them over and done with. The nurses know what they're doing and do the jabs quickly so it's over. Make sure you've got calpol in case it causes a temperature.

What are these horror stories? The vast majority of kids I know- just under a decade into parenting with two kids have had virtually no reaction other than mild fever and sleepiness. In fact they are a lot more robust so they scream a lot but they also recover quicker.

I gave the mmr first and then about 6 weeks later the other boosters. My reasoning was that their immune systems wouldn’t be bombarded all at once and also that I would know if they had any reaction to the mmr. My first was fine with the mmr but funny enough reacted to the others (swollen injection site, all over rash, fever) which she had previously been fine with. I 100% would have blamed the MMR if I hadn’t spread them. She’s fine now though. I know it’s fine to do them all together given that most people do but I felt more comfortable doing them like this so I’d go with your instinct as long as they get immunised it doesn’t really matter. I wasn’t too concerned about them catching the illnesses in the interim as they are boosters so actually there to catch the 5% not initially caught during the first set or 2. The men c is new and I may have given dd2 that and the mmr together and then the other one later on. She had no reaction to anything.

Sigh. You do realise that their immune system meets hundreds of challenges every day and the thing about being overwhelmed with imms is entirely antivaxx bollocks with no basis in fact,
@RumbleInTheJungle29

But well done for taking up an extra nurse appt for no reason

Have a read of the other thread in this board on this topic (it was at the top a minute ago). It’s quite common to spread jags out now and can lessen the impact of the jags compared to giving altogether (as described in the actual product insert for the menb vaccine). The schedule with the MenB included is so much harder than previously anyone with kids over about 3 doesn’t really have insight into how tougher it can’t be.