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!

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

That's a vaccine myth.

www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/debunking-myths-about-vaccine-testing-and-safety/

All of them. My aunt died in infancy from an illness which is now preventable.

My friend"s daughter's heart stopped in the ambulance on her way into hospital and again in the hospital. She stayed in hospital for months of painful treatment, and will have extensive scarring for the rest of her life. That illness is now also preventable by vaccine.

My godson is immunosuppressed. The are many vaccines which he can't be given, but the consequences of even the "minor" childhood illnesses could be fatal for him.

I know people who have not had vaccines on medical advice because of particular medical conditions which would make certain vaccines inadvisable.

I don't know anyone who has had serious health consequences the result of vaccination.

All of them...because I'm not a moron

I'm old enough to remember when I had measles and mumps when I was very young. The fact that I can remember them tell you how awful they were. I wouldn't wish that on any child.

All of them. The only one I queried was the HPV as a teenager, but she had that too.

She had all of them . And she’ll have the HPV. I’ve seen first hand at my primary school what damage measles and whooping cough and polio and mumps can do.

All of them, we had to do IVF because my husband’s sperm count was affected by mumps as a teenager. We’ll be paying privately for chicken pox one too.

You get all of them.

Unless there are particular diseases you won’t mind you child dying of?

My children will get every vaccine they are able to get. Why in earth would I wish them to have their lives endangered, or for then to endanger other peoples' lives?

I even tried to pay to vaccinate against chickenpox as it's not standard here (unlike the US and other places). Sadly DS caught it just before the appointment. Thankfully he was alright. I hope he didn't pass it to any pregnant women or anyone who developed complications though.

I will vaccinate my child with all of them and possibly add chicken pox too. I vaccinate my cat with all available vaccines, why would I not afford my child the same level of medical care?

Love this faith in the NHS
Maybe not the NHS, but in the WHO and the thousands of scientists around the world who have researched and developed vaccines.

It's a no brainer/no decision to be made in my book. So she's had all of them and will continue to have any jags that are recommended as she gets older.

If everyone decided not to vaccinate their children as the nhs advises and offers for free, we would see the horrendous illnesses that medical professionals have worked so hard to irradicate once again in our children.
I am a children’s nurse and see very sick children on a daily basis . It’s so sad that because we do not see these diseases so often any more people are stupid enough to believe that they shouldn’t vaccinate their children. Thank goodness they will more than likely be protected thanks to herd immunity and sensible parents protecting and vaccinating their children. If this rise in anti vaccination continues we will see more and more real cases of these “invisible” illnesses . And maybe then people will it be so quick to question whether or not to vaccinate and protect their own child.
I think op you can probably guess my answer to your first question.

All of them. Why wouldn't you?

DD is following the recommended NHS vaccination schedule and will receive all vaccines in due course. I don’t find it confusing, vaccines prevent horrible childhood diseases.
I didn’t realise chicken pox vaccine is available, albeit privately- what age is this given?

All NHS ones plus HPV privately for my son (should be available for boys on the NHS in time for your children).

Inconveniently, the NHS advice on diets for type 2 diabetes appears to be confirmed as good advice by the most recent research, despite several years of being disputed by a range of voices.

All of them. And I think anti-vaccinators are stupid and selfish.

Just the ones for the diseases I didn’t want ds to get

Every single one, plus the chickenpox vaccine. If my DS caught a preventable disease due to my negligence I would never forgive myself.

There are more kids with allergies around these days because they are more likely to survive infancy now we know more about allergies. I wonder how many kids died of peanut allergies and doctors assumed they'd just choked, as an example.

All of them. Plus TBE and am considering chickenpox.

All of them.

All of them

No question

All of them. I cannot fathom the idiocy of people who don't. You should get the whooping cough jab too. Congrats on baby :)

All of the ones that are on the NHS vaccine list.
Feel absolutely lucky to live in a country where these vaccines are free and accessible.