Feel like I've fucked up re one year immunisations

[sebsmummy1]

I've just been informed that I could have chosen to split them up and given then separately at the doctors as opposed to the three injections all at one time.

I had no idea!!

I remember all the controversy over the link between the MMR and autism but I thought the doctors findings ended up being debunked and he was struck off.

I'm now wondering if I should have pushed for them to have been given separately and was looking for some reassurance that most people on here have just presented their child for their one year old set of injections like I did.

I probably wouldn't be wobbling but my son had a fever last night as a result of the vaccine and it's the first time he has been poorly and I feel like I caused it.

I think most people turn up and have the 1 year vaccination. My dd2 reacted quite badly too.

It is horrid when they are poorly. Just imagine if he had one of the illnesses fully blown and that was your fault. Most of these decisions are a risk but I think you've made the least risky one.

Hope ds feels better soon.

I second plantsitter - when I worked in pharmacies, we had a kid come in who'd contracted mumps because he'd not been vaccinated. It was awful for him, and his dad too.

At the end of the day, it's your choice but I personally think you've not done anything wrong at all.

My dd has just had her 8w injections and she screamed and cried when the needles went in. I felt awful for doing it to her but I now know she is protected against these horrible illnesses.

I'm surprised your GP even offer separate vaccines.

If you're in the uk I don't think he's had mmr as three separate jabs. Mthey haven't made the single mumps vaccine for years.

Are you sure he hasn't had mmr, and then two other things such as diphtheria, whooping cough??

Anyway, not your fault. Your hv should have informed you better about options. Most/some kids get a bit of a fever after I think.

I think what you mean is having the MMR, Hib/Men C and PCV injections separately, not the 3 parts of the MMR separately.

www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/vaccination-schedule-age-checklist.aspx

To be honest we tried the splitting up the injections method to start off with but found that the distress my son was having by being injected pretty frequently prompted me to jus have them the way the surgery intended. He didn't seem to respond any differently to having them separately and it was less traumatic for him.

Oh I see. Yes I wondered about that too, but I reckon it would be more distressing to go 3 times. And then he might never want to go to the doctors again which would be v inconvenient!!

If they're so opposed to doing it all together they shouldn't have done it all today. They could have done one and got you to come again another week.

What plantsitter and breatheslowly said.

I've tried to find some stats, but could only see some US ones. For MMR over 80% have no reaction at all, 5-15% have a mild reaction (fever).

A tiny tiny proportion have severe reactions like anaphylactic shock and encephalitis (11 out of 30-40 million over nearly 25 years).
Stop worrying. You've done the best thing for him.

Just imagine if he'd had a fever 3 times, because you spilt it.
Please don't fret, he'll be fine - in fact its a sign the vaccs are working properly.
But agree you are confusing splitting the MMR (which the NHS won't do) and splitting the 3 different needles they give at 12 months now - for DS1 we had to go at 12 and 13 mths, and by that point, he knew what was coming, and it was much worse.

Sorry I should have been clearer. My mother has informed me if this, not the GP surgery. She said my sister was able to split the injections up and had some 6 months later.

She seems to think they split the MMR but now ive relooked at my slip I wonder whether Mum meant they gave the MMR separately to the pneu, men booster and think it was hip booster.

I just wished I'd researched it. I think I was in a bit of a fizz as we have just moved and I've registered with a new doctors and I just wanted to get him in as I knew he was already a month on from the time it was due.

Argh.

I really can't see why you would want to split them up. That just means doing the whole thing twice surely? With double the distress and your dd feeling grotty twice. Get them all done as quickly as possible I say, that way you don't have to go through it again for another year.

I suppose you could have delayed some by 6 months, but why would you want to? It would have just left him vulnerable for an extra 6 months I don't know anyone who chose to do that.

Three visits to the doctors for jabs instead of one sounds hideous. There's no medical need to split them.

I've never split them and was never offered the option to split them - I wouldn't worry about it.

Ok, that makes me a bit calmer. I hear so much on here about Autism that I think I am so scared of it and feel as though I've somehow raised his chances of developing it. Hopefully I'm being ridiculous.

Splitting them up would have meant 3 separate jabs and possibly 3 separate reactions for your little boy, plus 3 separate visits for you (which are easy to miss while you are busy or your baby has a bug).

It is hard to see the jab and the illness afterwards, but you have done a great thing by helping him avoid a much worse illness in the future, and you haven't mucked up. Soon he'll feel right as rain again!

Autism doesn't come from vaccines, so don't worry about that.

There is no evidence to suggest that there is a link between MMR and autism. The study of 12 children by Andrew Wakefield was completely discredited as it was found to be fraudulent and unethical. Unfortunately it has led to panic amongst parents which has led to measles outbreaks in the UK. The best thing you can do for your child is get them vaccinated against these dreadful diseases and that is what you have done. Relax - you have absolutely nothing to feel bad about.

The one thing I would advise is that you make sure your GP knows your dc had a mild adverse reaction - that way everyone is aware in case he's unfortunate enough to have a more severe one next time (many children don't react at all after booster even if they reacted the first time, my DD ended up in ICU and the guilt was horrific).

We did the two boosters at one appointment and then I took him back after a week for the MMR - not sure what I'll do this time round, might depend on how traumatic the jabs are/reactions to the jabs.

I don't think there's a right or a wrong way, the important thing is that your child is vaccinated

I got all my childrens vaccinations spaced out, the MMR I delayed and it wasn't given at same time as other vaccinations.
My two do not mind getting jabs though and don't cry or react at all.