Flowerchild - maybe it's because she was 34 weeks? Perhaps she was 'old' enough to not be as susceptible? There's quite a difference between a 28 weeker & a 34 weeker. What immunisations were they giving? I'd be scared giving vax's to a prem too.. it would be a very hard decision tho I think.

Our kids are so very rarely sick, and at most they have a bit of a temperature and sniffles. DS recently had bronciolitis (treated as asthma in the hospital, but GP disputed that diagnosis) and that's the worst he's ever had.. even then he wasn't that 'sick' just his breathing was quite laboured. Maybe our kids aren't sick because there's no way our house & garden are too clean, too tidy or sterile LOL.

There's anecdotal evidence to support both sides of the argument, just as there is for formula & breastfeeding & illness. And it's quite hard to sift through it all.

TOTALLY agree with the antibiotics thing. DH & I hate antibiotics, and I cringe when I hear of people getting antibiotics every time they're sick. I think I've only filled in one script for Tallon, for an ear infection, he didn't get a script when he had bronciolitis. And I never fill in the scripts for me LOL. Oh.. except when my tooth was infected.. I dug up an old script & filled it and then told the dentist that's what I did LOL. Saved me a dentist visit where they would have sent me away to get rid of the infection first!

ETA: Forgot to say:
Until I could be assured that my child would have no long term ill effects I would not inject her...
I kind of feel the same but opposite - until I can be assured that my child won't get these immunisable diseases, in a dangerous form, then I'm more inclined to inject.