How old were your dcs when they had their pre-school booster?

[TigerFeet]

This morning I received the second reminder for dd's pre-school booster, the first arrived a month or so ago. I think that at 3.6 I would rather wait a bit as she's still a bit young imo. She will go off to school in September at 4.2 but already goes to nursery so has contact with plenty of bugs (home today with temp and cough [rolls eyes]) so I have no particular concerns about her immune system not having been challenged and therefore being weak when she starts school. She will start with quite a few children that she already knows so not really any issues with sharing of new bugs etc.

Of course, she will have the jab but when she's a bit older, maybe in another year?

How old were yours? Anyone wait until after their dc started school before having the jab?

TIA

my dd is due hers next week and will be 4.2years. She starts school in August.

dd had hers at the same time as her mmr booster (bit late!) at 3.11

She had no reaction whatsoever, this time.

Thanks both

Any more?

Am I wrong in thinking 3.6 is a bit young?

I didn't get a reminder for ds1 - I just took him in a couple of months before he started school (so any side effects were well and truly over before the September) - nicely coinciding with ds2's MMR jab. Got both sets of grumpiness out of the way

Actually though, ds1 was just a breeze. I let them choose a bag of sweets before they went in and they opened them seconds before the needle went in. Ds1 didn't even really notice the jabs and had no side effects afterwards except for a bit of a sore arm

5 1/2 mine were (and were great). No you are not wrong, go with your gut feeling!

DS2 had his a couple of months ago at 4.1 but he doesn't start school until Sept. DS1, if I remember correctly was 4.1 too and had his done a month before he started school.

I would do it in August, if I were you, before she starts school but only because at our surgery the immunisation sessions run from 1.15pm to 3pm so to do them once they start school means taking them out of school. Also the school did ask us if it had been done so it is one less thing to worry about.

Tbh, I think around the 4th birthday is pretty standard.

Thanks all

RubberDuck - when are you getting ds2's done? (can't believe they're both off to school ) Around the same time? Perhaps I'll take dd in early July so she will be 4 (just!) but leaving bags of time before school starts.

Ds had his at about 3.10 (he starts school next September). We had the original appointment request through when he was 3.7, but I left it a while as I thought it was very early.

And just to warn you it was the mmr booster and the DTP/Polio/Hib, so two separate injections. The nurse did the first one, and then I had a v v upset crying boy who didn't want the second one, and had to virtually be held down. Horrible. When they are tiny, they cry and you cuddle them, but I wasn't prepared for the awful "No, mummy, that really hurt me. Please don't, please don't" etc . I don't think there is a lot you can do about it, as if we'd allowed him to leave it, he would still have had to return at a later date, and by that time was very aware of what having an injection meant, and we'd probably have had the same reaction anyway - prolonging the agony. I suppose I just wish I'd thought it through, and had been prepared myself, because I found it very upsetting.

The nurse did tell that that was it now until he's 16, by which time I hope he doesn't react in the same way

4y, he started school at 4y11m+

Thanks for the heads up gladbag I'll be prepared - I think if I had thought about it I would have realised there must be two but it hadn't clicked.

I will definitely go armed with chocolate buttons

Yeah, I was thinking June/July for ds2, loaded up with sweets so he comes out with a huge sugar high