I'm now crapping myself about MMR again - help!

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Have just been reading and contributing to the compulsory MMR jab. I gave it to my son at 2.5 years, after much thought. He was fine. My daughter is 20 months old and hasn't had it yet. I am particulary sensitive about her health because she had imperforate ans and has had three major operations, a tempory stoma and many unpleasant procedures performed on her. I think I have developed a bit of a phoboa about 'loosing her', and I am terrified by the idea of regressive autism.

How many of you out there are quite certain that your children have been damaged by MMR? Can anyone give me some clearer information so I can decide what to do?

Snorter- isn't the prob with that the simle fact that there is no single Mumps jab available atm? We'd have it for ds4 at some stage (living in Wales measles is the priority) but it's simply not there

All I meant Peachy was that GPs were completely against this target thing for vaccination because it undermined their position. They were angry that it made it so much harder to talk to parents about vaccination (of all sorts) because parents perceived there was a financial interest motivating the doctors. Same for cervical smears...

My son was born with a high imperforate anus and had six major operations before he was a year old. I decided long and hard over the MMR and fell on the side that it was better to risk it as the thought of having measels or mumps etc was just too awful. He is now 7 and there were no side effects for us with the MMR and life is moving on well with his birth condition too.