DD booked in for late MMR this week - she's 21 months - I'm nervous - anyone else done it late?

[swingsandroundabouts]

Ok, I know starting this thread is probably asking for trouble, but hey ho.

dd has had all her jabs. I was nervous about MMR. Obviously there are all the scare stories, and all the efforts to disprove them, I don't even know how much my nerves were about them or how much MMR has somehow just become this place where I peg all my anxieties about dd (thought i would be an anxious parent and am not so maybe i've just found this place to hang them.)

Anyway, ended up seeing someone at Great Ormond Street as had a query about my own medical history and whether it was a contraindication. He was adamant the best thing for dd was to have mmr.

I'm not explaining this very well. I just have some weird magical phobia about it - the trouble is I don't think my fears are rational and based on the evidence purportedly against mmr. the fact i keep taking her and then not going through with it suggests i do want her to have it. have decided DH has to take her - then it's out of my hands.

Has anyone else done MMR this late and then regretted it??? Can anyone relate to my woolly directionless worries?

Ds had his at about this age(he's 23 months now). No real reason other than the appointements we got were either in the middle of holidays/while I was in hospital/while he had cold.

He was fine, no problems at all.

my ds had his done at about 2 1/2 as it was when all the scares were in force big time. He was fine, however i didnt let him have the booster wmmr when he went to school. Not sure if this was right or wrong of me it was just my choice at the time.

The MMR is such a tricky thing. DD was booked in for hers in February. I cancelled the morning of the appointment, just couldn't do it. She has now had the single measles jab and has the other two ahead of her. Now though, having spoken to various people including BIL who is a gp and had his daughters done, I probably would do it now.

i think i felt that leaving it a while (partly by design, partly similar reasons to geordieminx) was a good compromise, but now I don't know what i was basing that on.

She'll be fine, i should just do it. i've just got this stupid block.

dd didnt have hers until she was about 3, and then had her booster last year after the school flaged it up she hadnt had it (shes now 12) so you dont get much later than that

Im so angry at myself in those days for not having the intelligence to ignore the media crap and just do what I thought was right.
FWIW ds and dd have now been vaccinated against everything, and so will new baby when he/she arrives.

I deferred DD's until she was 2 and a half (or thereabouts). She was fine with it. Am glad I delayed though, as it lessened my concerns.

I have decided now to have ds done, he is 2.8. He has just had a nasty virus (which I thought was measles, but wasn't) so am now pumping him up with vitamins and a probiotic so he is in the best of health. I'll probably get him an appointment next month.