Which vaccines do you let your baby have?

[LilyWilks92]

Hi Everyone, I'm currently pregnant with my first (its a girl) and have recently become aware that some people don't vaccinate their children or only vaccinate them against some diseases e.g. meningitis but not others like flu or MMR.
I was just wondering if any other expectant mothers found the same thing, or if anyone has any advice!
This is a whole new world of me and I'm confused!

Every single one and then I paid for the chicken pox vaccine as well.
Don’t get drawn into the anti vaxxers world, there’s no science behind it and they can’t be reasoned with.
Protect your kids and by proxy protect those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.

All of them

All of them.

All of them except mumps, and rotavirus I think plus a few extra on top and not at the NHS schedule.

No point in debating it out here though. On the whole - vaccines are pretty safe and if you have zero knowledge whatsoever I would go with the NHS schedule. I also wouldn't look to MN to advise you on it or stupid scaremongering antivax sites either

Both mine have had all the ones available free. They've both had actual chicken pox so don't need the jab

All of them, for the sake of your child and others

Because you weren't clear you meant as a single vaccine and there is a vaccine for mumps and rubella which are dangerous diseases so what was wrong with pointing that out?

@LilyWilks92 you might find this website to be useful if you're looking for helpful and rational information about vaccines:

vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk

21st cebturary selection. Children of intelligent/conformitive parents get immunity, children of stupid parents are left vulnerable to killer diseases. Quite sad really. Let’s hope herd immunity keeps those children safe.

‘Good luck with this thread OP. You do realise you CANNOT question the current vaccination schedule in the U.K. on Mumsnet“
Of course you can question it. People can then point you to proper, peer reviewed research to support the current schedule. You can then produce your proper peer reviewed research to dispute it.....except you can’t.

It's not faith in the NHS. It's faith in the scientists that do the research. People like my friend who dedicated years of research for the WHO into infant mortality and how to prevent it. I'll take her advice over a mummy blogger any day.

Many of us think the current research isn’t sufficient due to lack of unvaccinated control groups and unknown reasons for increasingly sick populations.

Just why is every second kid allergic to something these days?

All the usual plus RSV (I think - going back a bit) which DD was offered because of her heart condition. She and I also have flu jab every year.

Her brother has a severe egg allergy which restricts what vaccines he can have which has always worried me, especially with flu as he's also got asthma.

Like a pp, I would certainly have actively avoided a family of children I knew weren't vaccinated when DD was tiny and v sick.

Probably less worried now as they're bigger but would still be a bit .

All of them!!

All of them. Rotavirus wasn’t available and my child nearly died of it. I wish it had been

Whooping cough in pregnancy. Then all the scheduled vaccinations, plus flu jabs (well, nasal spray) when offered by our health centre. We also got DS the chickenpox vaccine privately.

All of them because I don’t want her to die.

HTH

"Just why is every second kid allergic to something these days?" - they're not.

Assuming you are referring to an increase in allergies, there could be a variety of reasons. Deciding that somehow it's related to vaccines is scaremongering nonsense based on nothing.

All offered as per the NHS vaccination schedule. I also had the flu in and whooping cough lbs when pregnant as is also routinely offered.

All of them, plus chicken pox which I paid for

All of them, I'm not a negligent parent.

Every sunflower they have access too

All of them.