Baby vaccines question

[EdgarAllenSloe]

DD2 had her 8 week jabs scheduled for the week she was actually 9 weeks. Then the nurse was ill, so they were rescheduled for the following week. Her next lot we're scheduled for the week she turns 11 weeks - meaning there will only be one week between doses. Does this matter?

Obviously I'm going to phone the surgery tomorrow and ask, but I'm wondering if anyone knows? (I have 80,000 things happening next week, and am trying to mentally arrange everything - if anyone has an idea I can stop overthinking alternative plans!)

Fairly certain there needs to be more than a weeks gap between them so you get maximum immunity

No, a week isn't long enough. Rearrange the second lot for a month after the first.

Yes, they'll need to push the next appointment back.

The primary immunisations are four weeks between doses. If you start at eleven weeks then the second ones will be at fifteen weeks and the third at nineteen weeks. The next ones will remain at twelve months though.

Thanks everyone. Just trying to get through to the surgery! They only initially scheduled three weeks between appointments, so absolute precision can't be that important - but a week seems a bit fast!

Actually, just realised they only gave us two weeks between doses if the initial appointment hadn't been cancelled... Not sure what they're playing at!

If anyone medical has any idea how important the spacing is, I'd be very keen to know - not sure how much I can trust the receptionist to know. And the central system that issues the appointments seems to be a bit off, given that they've scheduled appointments a week late then a week early so far...

You can ask the receptionist to check with the nurse.