You get chicken pox immunisations? I don't think we have them here - only for things that can kill/severely disable. Like the MMR or polio, which can happen to children with fantastic homes, food, immune systems... I couldn't live with myself if I didn't immunise and my baby died of something I could have prevented.

But for non-dangerous illnesses, such as chicken pox, I would just hope that my children can catch it in early-ish childhood. OK, I do have a couple of chicken pox scars still (I had it when I was 7), but rather that than an immunisation that runs out.

I can understand that people don't like needles but I just think of what can happen when you don'timmunise; people in good, clean areas catch horrid diseases because the immigrant areas have them and they flare up in a new population with no tolerance to them, so living in the UK, which has in immigration problem, I would immunise.