did you give all immunisations?

[chicca]

Am I alone in having decided not to let DS (7.5 months) have the first round of immunisations?
Did anyone decide to do this and then change their minds later on?

[NomDePlume]

My DD had all imms. The risks for not immunising were much greater than those related to immunising, in our personal case.

[coppertop]

Ds1 had the 1st DTP and reacted badly to it (stopped breathing). He had the 2nd DTP under observation as the doctor thought it may have been a coincidence (!). He had the same reaction. For the 3rd and 4th he had the DT without the P and was fine. This option has since been removed and so basically if he'd been a few months younger he would have had b*gger-all chance of getting protection - even though it has been recognised that the pertussis was the problem. He also had both sets of MMR.

We took the risk with the DTP with ds2 and he was okay. He also had the MMR. If we had a 3rd child I would still think carefully before going ahead. I hope for their sake that they aren't allergic to the pertussis element because this will mean that they miss out entirely!

[Cam]

My dd1 had all baby vacs, no MMR around then, so she had the illnesses of measles and mumps. Also had chickenpox illness.
My dd2 has had all baby vacs, not MMR nor meningitis vacs. Has had illness of cpox. I will keep up her DTP every 10 years just as I do for myself.

[Cam]

DD1 also did have rubella vac but not till 13/14

[Newyearmum]

Jimjams
Thanks for explaining that about tetanus

[lisalisa]

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[Gwenick]

both my DS's have had/will have all their jabs. For me it was the 'safer' option

PS - it's nice to see a 'jabs' threads that isn't disolving into a hoohaa about how terrible on or the other side if for immunising/not immunising!

[lisalisa]

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[hana]

absolutely - dd1 has had everything so far ( she's 3) dd2 on first set

[MunchedTooManyMarsLady]

Yes with all 5 kids

[BigGayDad]

Had a conversation today with a public health doctor about how many immunisations we'd have to give to get to the levels where there is "herd immunity" for a number of diseases. It was actually a bit frightening. If people have a valid reason for not having immunisations fair enough, but if people are skipping them cos they are relying on the diseases not appearing because everybody else is immunised well they are very much mistaken!!

[miam]

All 4 of mine were give all immunisations. I developed epilepsy after contracting mumps and encephilitis (sp). All my girls were very healthy so felt it was the best option. I would have been happier with the single vaccines though - and can completely understand those who choose not to vaccinate.

[redsky]

Both ds and dd have had all their jabs.

[Sarahx2005]

We have all the info to take our daughter for the single jabs instead of MMR. The other 3 children had it and were fine although we lost our 4 year old son in June 2002 from a brain tumour and although we think it wasn't related to the MMR we are over cautious about everything now.
I want her to have the measles jab first, I wasn't given the Rubella jab until I was 14!! My friend's daughter was seriously affected after having her MMR.
If we do decided to let her have the MMR jab we will wait until she's well over two and her immune system is more able to cope with the triple vaccine.
Heard a health specialist on the telly say that we don't even give triple vaccinations to cattle! that's scary!
Sarah x

[Sarahx2005]

lisalisa, it's not too late to have the kids vaccinated, vaccinations are very important. There are always alternatives.
Sarah x

[jabberwocky]

We didn't start until ds was 5 months old and have proceeded very slowly and carefully. He is about to start single jabs this month (he will be 19 months) instead of the MMR. I did tons and tons of research and still almost got sick every time with the "should we, shouldn't we" thinking. There is no right answer IMO but just be armed with all the information you can possibly have.

[FairyMum]

Yes of course! We follow the normal vaccination programme.

[bathmummy]

Mine had all of them and felt quite grateful for living in a "developed" country in the 21st century with all of these vaccinations easily available. Vaccinations have transformed our world and removed a lot of fear and pain, blindness, infertility, loss of limbs (to name but a few awful consequences) and death. I wouldn?t miss the vaccination appointments for my children for the world.

[bathmummy]

to clarify - I understand why people worry (of course) and can understand why some wish to be cautious from personal experience of other medical conditions, can also understand single MMR jabs. Not sure I totally understand those who don?t vaccinate at all but recognise it is their right, just hope their chidren will agree and not resent the parents if they were to catch any of these illness with long lasting consequences.

[sasa15]

definetely give all first round immunisations.
I'm not sure about MMR....yet...

ds is only 7months...

[Bozza]

Have given mine all of them. No family history to make me consider the decision.

[Jimjams]

Sarah- lisalisa's son would have died if she had given the polio jab as instructed (bullied in her case) by her GP at the time (she was told this by a consultant immunologist).

bathmummy - growing up with a severely autistic sibling which was probably triggered by the thimerosal in the DTP's I doubt very much that either ds2 or ds3 will resent not having been given the jabs. Obviously when they're older if they choose to have them that's up to them. Somehow I suspect one look at their brother (who by then will be in a care home) will probably put them off.

I know quite a few people who haven't vacinated at all - in some cases its because they prefer to use natural remedies and don't really use much in the way of allopathic medicine (I do live in Devon after all). In the majority of cases though the eldest child is vaccinated- something has resulted from that which has made them not want to take the risk with their other children. Everyone has their own reasons for not vaccinating if that's what they decide, but it's usually for good reasons, and is almost always a well researched decision. Very few people wake up one morning and think "oooh I'm not going to vaccinate"- there's a lot of pressure on you to vaccinate and if you don't have clear reasons for not doing it it's likely that your children will be vaccinated at sometime.