Plan for new vaccine for babies ...

[MrsBigD]

Aren't our poor little mites 'stabbed' enough?! DS wasn't impressed with the new 5-in-1 in one leg and the MengC in the other as it was. So now they want to add something else into the 5-i-1 coctail?!

I'm all for keeping our lo's happy and healthy, but ...

"... She said: "We always take parents' fears and worries into account, but whatever decision is made will be based on protecting children as best as we possibly can."

Yeah right!

Gotta love this excerpt...

"I really do worry that if we can't introduce these sort of vaccines we are going to see a return to diseases that we thought we had broadly seen the last of in this country."

Well in the case of MMR... imho if they'd make the single vaccines more readily available (be it for a cost or not) then that wouldn't be a problem would it now!

I am lucky enough to have a clinic nearby that does singles for the MMR and I don't mind paying the £80-90 per shot either. DD did react badly to her first imms (2nd lot at 3 months) so they actually didn't give her the 3rd whooping cough injection for fear she might react again.

Hmmm, re-reading the above ya might get the impression I'm a bit biased against this subject couldn't you

But lockets - children ALL over the world in their millions have/are being vaccinated against various illnesses and only a TINY % of those have major problems with the vaccinations themselves.

HOWEVER, many MORE men, women and children are affected, and killed, blinded etc, by the diseases we're trying to fight!

So lockets - you've never seen anything in the media about it????

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lockets are you 9 weeks pregnant?

Fair enough - but you'd inflict child hood illnesses on your child and possibly others.

And anyone who who claims the media has NO influence over them whatso ever is - I'm sorry kidding themselves. Interesting you say you made your mind up at an early age, yet you also claim to have done 'extensive' reading - yet the question of MMR has only come up in the last 7 or 8yrs and most research is only a couple of years old.

And here I will bow out too

Oh come on Socci! Just quick question do you follow WHO guidelines on BF and weaning???

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Ermm - have a look at the first post in this thread you'll see that MMR was brought in a the first post

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I guess I just don't understand people who are willing to put their childrens lifes at risk by not immunising.

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"unknown risks of vaccination"

vaccinations have been around for over 100yrs now!! Surely if they were THAT bad (and I'm not sure what can be worse that your child dying??) we'd have found out about it by now!

The way I see it is like this

You wouldn't put your child in the car without a carseat - as you don't want him seriously hurt or killed in crash

I wouldn't not vaccinate my children as I don't want them dying, or being left sterile, blind,deaf or with a damaged baby if they caught any of the diseases

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why is it stale?? because it's true??

Do you not think that with vaccinations having been around for over 100yrs, and literally MILLIONS of children each year being vaccinated we would have, by now, seen any serious consequences of them??

I personally don't see any. I see mothers able to give birth and at least in most developed countries be pretty confident that their child will live into adult hood. I see fewer babies born with deformities as a result of fewer mothers catching German Measles.

I see people being confident to have pets in the UK now as rabies has been eradicated and I think myself VERY lucky that I won't get TB as I was immunised against it.

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