Baby vaccines

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Can I ask if there are any vaccines you refused for your baby and if there are any in particular you think are compulsory and the benefits outweigh the risks?
Thank you

Both my kids got all the vaccines recommended

I didn’t refuse any. I did get the MMR separately to the others for DD1 preschool vaccines as she reacted badly to it at 1 years old. I would have down the same with DD2’s 1 year vaccines but due to the timings and being in pandemic I didn’t want her post vaccine temperatures to be spread out because I didn’t want DD1 to miss school due to the need to isolate for temps.

I’ve considered getting DD2 privately vaccinated against chicken pox

Benefits are they prevent illnesses that could leave your child sevelely damaged or dead.
Disadvantages they cry for a minute or so.

Your choice personally I rather like stacking the odds in favour of my children making it to adulthood.

if there are any in particular you think are compulsory and the benefits outweigh the risks?

None are compulsory in the UK. All of the recommended ones have benefits that outweigh the risks.

All vaccines received and paid to get chicken pox vaccine in boots

The ones on the schedule are all compulsory - they don't add vaccines for no reason or when the benefits don't massively outweigh the risks. Risks being death or severe disability for some diseases. What is it you are particularly worried about?

I got my child all the NHS vaccines plus we paid for chicken pox vaccine.

All vaccines plus chicken pox privately. Will do the same for DC2.

"Compulsory" in my opinion - you as a parent give consent.

All of them

I am not an anti vaccine person by any means however took my 7+6 week old baby today for his first vaccines and was introduced to the rotavirus vaccine. Received the 6 in 1 and also men b. Paracetamol as far as I was informed should only be given to babies 8 weeks + but is advised for the men b 3 times on a 4-6 hour basis after the vaccine. I felt so sad having to give my 7 week old baby pain relief and yes I know it’s for a vaccine which could save his life but was still saddening for a tiny baby to being fed pain relief medication. Anyway, having read many different views on the rotavirus vaccine what are your views. Also when i asked the question it wasn’t particularly based on that (but that is the one I’m questioning) but ones that fellow mums and dads felt weren’t entirely necessary. If that all makes sense x

MenB jab can cause fever and that's why paracetamol is given as standard. If they weren't felt necessary then the NHS wouldn't pay to provide them

All necessary.

Yeah not nice to see little ones upset and having to give pain relief.

They'd need a hell of a lot more pain relief if they were in ICU with meningitis though!

The NHS wouldn't waste money insisting on these diseases being vaccinated against if they weren't necessary!

The paracetamol is to avoid high temperature, the baby isn’t in pain.
We had all the free vaccinations and paid privately for several others. We are lucky to live in a time where our children are spared so much illness and suffering.

When my now 4.5 year old was getting injections. Rota virus wasn't included.
He actually for the rota virus bug when he was 2. He was so so sick for weeks. He ended up in hospital. I will never forget it. The poor child had to have a drio put in they went through the toes in the end. It knocked him out for months. It completely changed him and took a long time to recover.

It's so important to give the rota virus vaccine

My friend's DS caught rotavirus before he was vaccinated (so about 7 weeks). He was so I'll with it he was in hospital for a week/on a drip etc.

Dh also caught it as he didn't wash his hands properly after changing DS' nappy post vaccine and had a really tough weekend being ill.

So yes I would advise to vaccinate your baby against having it.

My daughter now nearly 16 didn’t receive the rotavirus vaccine and she was fine and I know maybe she was lucky and so many other children may get this virus and suffer badly, but I nor either of my family members (all well) didn’t receive this and after reading up on it after the vaccine appointment where the 6 in 1 and meningitis was given in really in two minds as there is so much information pointing me against it.
If you are all for every vaccine the NHS provides that is great and I’m not questioning anyone with regards to that but for me on a personal basis I don’t feel right giving this to my child and was looking for any information fellow mums and dads had with what felt right or not so for them x

Thank you all for the comments

More information about the disease
There are five different types of the virus, known as A, B, C, D, and E. Type A causes 90% of infections in humans. The vaccine used in the UK gives protection against type A infections.
Although rotavirus is not often life-threatening in the UK, it caused a huge amount of illness before a vaccine was introduced in 2013. Each year in the UK:
130,000 children were so unwell with rotavirus that they needed to see their GP
36,000 children with rotavirus were taken to A&E
Around 12,700 of these were admitted to hospital, usually because of severe dehydration
It is thought that three or four children died each year in the UK as a result of rotavirus infection, and some people have given higher estimates
Death was due to severe dehydration caused by the diarrhoea and vomiting

any in particular you think are compulsory and the benefits outweigh the risks

All of them

He's had all the vaccines available in the UK plus we paid for the chicken pox one.

Rotavirus is a nasty illness which I would hate for him to get. Thank goodness there is a vaccine to prevent it.

We wouldn't vaccinate children if the benefits didn't outweigh the risks. That's what YEARS AND YEARS of science has gone into proving and perfecting.

If you feel bad giving your baby paracetamol imagine how bad you would feel seeing them critically ill in hospital.

Then imagine how that would feel if it was something you could have helped prevent.

So the main issue is you have is that the vaccine meant you gave your baby paracetamol one day before the minimum age given on the bottle? If it makes you feel better, opting out of the rotavirus wouldn't have helped with that - the paracetamol is to limit fever from the vaccination, and my understanding is that it's because of the men B, not the rotavirus, that it's advised.

To answer your question, I think they're all necessary and I wish they'd add the chickenpox vaccination to the schedule, too - as it is we paid privately for it.