Implications of not vaccinating?

[Devvers]

Hi everyone, I have a beautiful seven week old baby boy and am soon to be contacted by our GP to organise an appointment for his 8 week vaccinations. I am really concerned about some of the articles and reports I have read about the potential side affects of some of the vaccines and am therefore trying to do some more research into whether, he should a) have them all at all and b) have them at 8 weeks or delay until we feel he is a bit more robust.

I would be interested to know if anyone was successful in delaying the normal programme but still being able to get their child vaccinated on the NHS but just on a later timetable and also whether anyone has made the decision to not vaccinate their child but then contracted one of the illnesses.

Its such a difficult decision, you feel like your dammed if you do and dammed if you don't!

Would really appreciate any advice/experiences.

Thanks very much.

Ah, I see.

Pertussis
(Although other benefits beyond quantity are present).

As I said Mumps is a trickier one.
Mumps vaccines have been so effective at reducing quantity and severity of mumps infections that there are no good studies.
We now it happens but we don't have good data on how it compares to the vaccine.

My brief scan of my web history let me down and I can't find my influenza reference.
It indicated better breath of antibody (as relates to more strains being present in the vaccine than the infection) and a few months extra immunity.
But I can't find it just now.
Sorry.

With Chicken Pox, I really don't think it is a good idea to look at reinfection rates.
The damage is done after the first infection, your then at substantial risk of herpes zoster.
Vaccination is very effective in reducing this.

DBennett, how would you comment on this?

www.kpbs.org/news/2010/sep/07/vaccinated-people-getting-whooping-cough-sd/

very good thread lots of interesting thoughts think the delaying jabs whilst breastfeeding etc and just spacing them further out seems like the most common sense use of ones common sense! and giving mmr jabs which the gov give in one just to keep costs down and not have to store/preserve/administer it 3 times etc also seems to be wrong - single jabs, even though it costs privately again seem to be a more common sense foot fwd sort of thing.

pagwatch sorry to single you out, but you seem to know what you're talking about on these threads.

Can you point me in the direction of the info about not immunising? I blindly followed it with DS, accepted teh debunking of the MMR/autism link etc, but having seen a lot of threads on MN about it I'm very keen to know more about it.

(I'm aware your DS has autism, so I hope I'm not being rude in my request ) I'm just very interested in the information and a bit reluctant to start my own thread about it (OP, sorry for hijack)

Hope this makes sense.

DBennett - are you Oxford based by any chance?