I am another pro-vaccination mother. I would rather deal with the minute chance that Jett would have issues with a vaccination than a high chance he would catch any one of the numerous diseases they are immunised against and be severely incapacitated or even die.

That said, Jett has a bad reaction to his 4mth vaccinations but I am still pushing ahead with them. I did think abut delaying them a bit if he had another reaction at his 6mth ones but he was a-ok.

The practice nurse who did Jett's vaccinations told me an interesting fact about why they insist on putting the needles in their legs and NOT their bottom like we all had. Apparently there is a nerve attached to the spinal cord that runs through your bottom and in a baby/small child it is not properly protected like it is when your older and many a child had ill effects from vaccinations because the needles hit this nerve and cause damage. That may be where all the anti-vaccination information has stemmed from since we were kids!

ETA - Tanya - I dont think there is any proof that any case of autism was 'caused' by vaccinations as opposed to being exaccerbated by having a child vaccinated. I truly believe that if something like that occurs in a child its probably been there from birth and just been brought to attention by a trigger, whatever it may be.