HIB catch up jabs - A flamesparrow saying "information me please!!!"

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Ok.

I have read the NHS leaflet oojamaflip (which at least informed me that it is a HIB/MenC jab and not just HIB that the doctor letter did ).

I have also driven past the doctor's with DD who started sobbing that she didn't want to go in there, she didn't want them to hurt her arms again (last time we went in was MMR booster).

I want to know facts - what it protects against, how important it is, should I be getting it done and have a VERY traumatised child rather than the slightly traumatised one I currently have (she had the MMR one in last summer term and is still scared to just see the clinic )

Please help me decide what to do for the best

I posted about this when my dd1 was called forward. I made the decision to go ahead but it was awful and we ended up having to hold dd2 down despite chocolate and milkshake briberies and she totally screamed the place down. Awful . Sorry I know that probably doesn't help. I will try to find my old thread. Incidentally I don't think our boosters do have the Men C bit....
I also had a long chat with my HV about it.

Hmm think I am confused about the Men C bit..
I didn't even get sent the leaflet so you are a step ahead of me.

How old is your dd?
It's a difficult call really - I do strongly believe that vaccinations are a "good thing" but then I have been fortunate (so far - not sure how things'll pan out with ds) in that the injections have not been traumatic.

This is from the NHS website.

The Hib vaccine protects your child against only one type of meningitis (Hib). It does not protect against any other type of meningitis.

Men C
Meningococcal disease results from a bacterial infection caused by the organism Neisseria meningitidis.

Meningitis is an inflammation of the lining of the brain. The same germs that cause meningitis may cause septicaemia.

The Men C vaccine protects your child against only one type of meningitis (meningococcal). It does not protect against any other type of meningitis.

This bacterium can cause both endemic and epidemic disease.

Have you spoken to the practice nurse/HV about it? I'm not sure what they can do really, and I think that they will just suggest you have it done. How did you approach the MMR booster? Warning, rewards, and so on.

DD had her MMR booster in one arm last week and the Dip/tetanus and so on in the other arm at the same time. Not sure that she's due any more until she's 14 (in fact, the nurse said not).

Thank you

I miss Gess

By warning, I mean talking it through. Not censure IYSWIM.

Yes she was very calm and helpful for me, even though I was getting stroppy .

HV is very much "thou shalt vax"

PN is loooovely and actually went to cross MMR out of DS's red book because she assumed I was too lentil weavery to give it

I might see if I can get an appointment with her (if I can remember her name)

I think I am more worried because where she has AS issues, once she gets an idea in her head, that is the way it is and nothing will change it unless SHE decides - I am concerned that if I take her and it is traumatising again, then it will put her off the doctor's surgery for years.

It wasn't just the pain with the last ones, she had the first jab (head turned away from nurse), and then the bloody woman came at her with the other needle without giving me time to turn her head, so she SAW what was going to be going into her, freaked, tensed, and it hurt all the more

They do them in the leg where I am. That may help a little bit...Well prob not but if you decide to take her don't dress her in jeans like me and have the whole pulling them down to deal with too. Why I didn't put her in a skirt that day is beyond me....

Lol, see I did that - put her in a skirt... then they announced that they needed arms.

One of Psychomum's children fought when she was about 4 and the strength in her leg meant that the needle snapped - they have done it in the arms since then!! I think it is where you can pin the arms down better

I have a friend who took her ds for his boosters a few weeks ago. He saw the needle coming and then screamed the room down. Had to have an extra nurse in to hold him down
Particularly as he was first in line, so whole waiting room outside hearing him shouting "get off. You're going to hurt me. Get away from me" and so on. Bit like being in a dentist's surgery and hearing the drill, and tensing. You can imagine the pained expressions among the assembled parents outside.
It does seem to be an issue for some children and not others. DD wasn't exactly happy, but was OK. Bit of chocolate afterwards and a friend round to play (and a couple of stickers from the nurse) and she was merry. Others have had more extreme reactions. And one friend of dd's didn't even flinch.

Oooh scary about the needle. DD1's scream could have been heard for miles I am sure. I got lots of sympathetic smiles on the way out as she tucked into her chocolate . It took me and our lovely nursery nurse to hold her while the HV jabbed. We had been in there 10 mins trying the gentle persuasion and bribery route and the HV said we could come back another day but I said it would be just the same and so we should just do it and so led the pinning down exercise . Isn't it a shame. She loved telling everyone about it though and showing everyone her plaster, dropping her trousers as soon as we got to nursery .