2 month vaccination at 6 weeks?

[Where there's hope]

During our community nurse visit on Friday, I was advised that DS should get his two month immunisation early - at 6 weeks - because of the whooping cough outbreak in NSW. Anyone else given this advice?

DH and I do take this seriously - we and the grandparents have been immunised for whooping cough and swine flu. But I figure the immunisation schedule is set at 2 months for a reason...

Any thoughts?

Thanks
WTH

[ss_storm]

we were told that too, but i still got her done at 2 months. 6 weeks just seems so little to be jabbing them with needles! and then it kind of mucks up the rest of their vaccinations, I think with the littlies it is important to get them done as close to the mark as possible, i.e.. as close to 2 months, 4 months etc as you can get, so if you get them done at 6 weeks, do you then get them done 2 weeks before they are 4 months old or stretch it out, in which case the booster may not work as effectively had it been done at the correct time.

We didn't go out much during the first few months and didnt really have anyone visit so didn't worry too much about it. we didn't get our whooping cough boosters until DD got her needles at 2 months.

[~Raven~]

I was told that the vaccinations are scheduled the way they are because the babies immune system is unable to "hold onto" the antibodies before 8 weeks and it would be a waste to give it to them. Not sure how true that is.

[tenar]

I suggest you ask a GP.

We've messed around with DD's schedule to have her have as many of her 6-month vaccinations as possible a couple of weeks early, so she would be protected from those things in time for our trip overseas (the only one we couldn't is the Hep B, because you have to have at least 56 days between the 4-month Hep B shot and the 6-month one, and there wasn't time). So she had a bunch of things about 2 weeks earlier than she should have. I was able to discuss with with the doctor, which helped me to feel happy about doing it this way.

But 6 months is quite different to 2 months, as the baby is so much more developed. So I don't know whether the same kind of thing would be OK for yours.

Hope you can come to a decision and that, whatever you do, your baby stays well.

[Snacks]

We were given the same advice by three different HPs. I had DD vacced at 6 weeks.

[rach2281]

Yep was given the same advise here to, by the midwives, peditrician and family doc. So in 2 wks Evangeline will be getting her first needle