Baby due first vaccines concerns ,did you vaccinate your baby?

[mrsjoker35]

My babies 8 weeks coming up for and shes due her vaccines next week,
I keep hearing people saying that their evil, and that it's all fake , causing new diseases and stuff,not coming from me by the wau! i just don't know what to think. Its probably just scaremongers, but to be honest i am quite scared because of all the social media and whatnot, and now this other new thing going around that are effecting the unborn, saw people saying that the women were given jabs which caused that to happen. I think i just need some reassurance and some sane people to help me out here lol
Did you vaccinate your baby?
Did they get any side effects? ( did/does calpol help?)
What is their health like now?

Im sorry,im a ftm and im so easily concerned and frightened,

Zika is nothing to do with vaccines. My boys were both vaccinated. There were no issues at all. They are now 9&11, bright, sporty and as healthy as you could wish...they have not had more than a couple of days off school in their lives.

Get your baby vaccinated and ignore your cousin.

Did you vaccinate your baby? - Yes - and even MMR, which I agonised about briefly.
Did they get any side effects? (did/does calpol help?) - None whatsoever for the first set, may have been a bit grisly with the 16 week ones but one age-appropriate dose of Calpol was sufficient to sort it out
What is their health like now? - Great. Robust 2.5 year old, 95th centile for height/weight, have been told by various people she's very bright, although not entirely convinced it's not code for really naughty (which she is, which is fine).

I'm not a HCP but as I understand it, there's nothing on the NHS vaccination programme that's remotely controversial. And you're lucky that your DD will, I think, be getting Beksero (against Meningitis B) too, which was added after my DD passed the age of eligibility (on the NHS) for it.

As terrible as the Zika virus is, its nothing to do with vaccines, it's spread by mosquito bites (and they're not in UK, in case you're wondering).

FreckledLeopard
I know its not :( i need to take a break from it,honestly, but baby sleeps so much at the moment i often find myself reading things i shouldn't.
Reading all these comments from experienced mummies is definitely helping me see the light though

DS now 10 vaccinated for everything including TB and MMR.

The issue is that you are deliberately doing something to your child which goes against the grain. Instinct is to protect your child, not jab a needle with some stuff that you don't entirely understand into their arm.

Luckily most parents are capable of quelling their prehistoric instincts with information and taking advantage of the medicine which has been developed since our instincts first evolved.

It helps me that I know that there are millions of children every year who are vaccinated without issue and that I looked after a teenagers with brain damage after complications from measles and my aunt was disabled from polio.

So I vaccinate.

Without any contraindications, I would always vaccinate. But of course you're allowed to wobble about it - thats natural.

I should add that DS was a 26 week sub 1kg premmie and he was still vaccinated at the appropriate time.

Healthy as a horse now, hardly ever even gets a cold.

Social media isn't your problem; idiots are your problem!

You have a chance to protect your newborn baby from potentially fatal diseases. Don't pass that up for some stupid conspiracy theory bullshit.

I have strong views about this issue so will try to be calm. I think that one thing our generation suffers from is no real experience of what the diseases we are now vaccinated against actually do and how horrific and dangerous and deadly they are. One important point to remember is that your 8 week old baby is currently healthy in part because the majority of the rest of us have vaccinated OUR children. Until they are old enough to be vaccinated themselves, little babies can contract deadly diseases and die. I suggest you google the article on Facebook written by the parents of Riley Hughes and also read this: www.theage.com.au/comment/the-world-without-vaccines-was-a-cruel-place-20160126-gmedwi.html

Yes we vaccinated our son and will again for our next baby. No side effects.
He's now 7 and has fab health.
I have experienced the effects of not vaccinating first hand. My mother didn't let me have the BCG vaccine as she want me to have a scar , as an adult I traveled to Africa for work and you guessed it contracted TB. Getting over that was far more traumatic and unpleasant (and could have been life threatening as I have other conditions) than having a small scar on my arm.
Most of the stories for vaccinating are based on medical studies, most of those against are based on anecdotes - I know which sides hands I'd rather put my child's health into.

Of course I vaccinated. Vaccines are a miracle of modern medicine and we should thank our lucky stars for them every bloody day.

Ignore social media. It's scaremongering, ill informed rubbish.

Try to think a bit more critically about it OP. What's more reliable? The evidence-based information available on the NHS website or the ramblings of the type of foolish conspiracy theorist who posts drivel on the Mirror's Facebook page?

Ds has just had his first set. They give them a lot at 8 weeks(they've recently added rotavirus drops and meningitis) and I did consider delaying one of them till 12 weeks, but ultimately decided I couldn't take the risk of him actually getting one of these illnesses between now and 12 weeks so I gave him the lot.

He was miserable that evening (stomach pain and wind, so I blame the rotavirus one), but it was a small price to pay for immunity to so many horrible illnesses.

The day after he slept a lot so I had a nice relaxing day

Dd is three and had everything on offer at the time. I don't recal her having any reactions to vaccines, not even a temperature. She's a strong, healthy girl.

I'm definitely going to vaccinate my little girl. I really do want to give her the best start in life(hense the whooping cough and flu jab i got). And also as others said ,it'd not only be harmful for my child but for others too if i was to decide against it.

I think you need to find some new friends to listen to. I don't know anyone who has refused baby vaccines

I vaccinated both my children as per the NHS schedule. And myself.

No side effects. Stop reading this scaremongering, dangerous codswallop about side effects and government conspiracies.

I have known a couple of people who have had small side effects from vaccinations. A little red bump where the injection was that was sore for a day or two... a slightly raised temperature, probably unrelated, for a few hours. Nothing in comparison to the side effects I have come across personally as a result of not being vaccinated against the relevant diseases:

• My Great Uncle limped and used a stick (then frame, then wheelchair in old age) from being a small boy - due to catching Polio aged 4. He'd tell me all about the patients who lived in 'Iron Lungs' on the polio ward at the hospital he used to attend. They all died very young.
• My Goddaughter developed Meningitis aged 11 weeks. This was a couple of years before the vaccine was available. She was extremely lucky to survive with only her eyesight slightly damaged and approx 60% hearing loss in both ears.
• My colleague caught measles when pregnant (she thought she was immune as believed she'd had it before. The MMR wasn't given to her at school). She lost her baby and was very ill herself.
• My friend almost died of meningitis and when travelling in India. He lost all of his toes (has to wear special weights in his shoes so he can balance properly) and had to have huge skin grafts on his arms and legs.
• My friend's daughter almost died of meningitis when she was a toddler. She recovered very well but has a lot of scarring on her legs and face. She was so, so close that another two minutes waiting for the ambulance would have been too long - that beautiful vivacious cheeky, intelligent girl would not be here today...

That's off the top of my head - I am not unusual in the number of people I know who have suffered with these things. The NHS does not waste money on anything that is unproven, a waste of time and money or too risky. Please listen to them and get your child protected. Please.

Good God.

Do these people really think that the government spends millions of pounds per year causing diseases? I don't get it.

If you want to google anything, Google smallpox and the start of vaccination. Google what measles, mumps, rubella, meningitis etc can do. Google the rates of thes diseases pre and post mass vaccination.

People who don't vaccinate for the reasons you've said are fucking idiots. Some people can't be vaccinated for allergy reasons, but to not do it because you 'don't believe in it' is idiotic in the extreme.

Glad to hear you're going to do yours OP.

The only people you should be listening to is the people who wrote medical journals and research papers. Anyone else's opinion is not worth a shiny shit.

It actually petrified me that there are people who use word of mouth and chat forums in making such an important decision.

If you don't vaccinate and they catch something how will you feel?

Ive vaccinated my daughter with everything on the standard nhs schedule. Today I paid privately for her to have vaccinations against Men B and Chickenpox. Why not vaccinate against unpleasant and harmful diseases?

This.

handbag perfect.

vaccinate your children!!

Oh and yes I vaccinate my children x

People have forgotten what measles was like. People who don't vaccinate ride on the back of those who do. It's not nice but better than a life threatening illness. Yes, the baby will cry and you might have a crap week. But if there's a measles outbreak later in life... What happened in Swansea quite recently was terrifying. And the autism link is absolute rubbish.

I vaccinated my 19 year old and my 1 year old. My daughter has arthritis but it's genetic. It's not vaccine related. She can't have vaccines that are live due to her medications. So we stopped her meds for an agreed period of time so that she could have the vaccines.

That is how important that I feel the vaccines are. That I willingly stopped her meds that halt her arthritis I don't regret it for a moment.

When my baby gets his next lot next week. I will have calpol in for him.

The most she ever had was a bump from the injection and a bit whingy. My son never seems to have a problem.

I know a woman who had polio as a child. Her body shows how hard that disease was.

Please speak to a health professional. Get information and make your choice based on evidence x

Very sensible decision Joker. Lots of parenting is about making hard decisions which are short term upsetting for our children but in their best interests in the long term.

Well done, 1 down, 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 to go!

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