thank you both so much for your words and links, i really appreciate it. Off to do more reading!

i think, if i can't work it out, maybe i'll copy your idea MEOW, and get the two needles done one at a time, with a month space inbetween.

I'm presuming the timing of the vax is to get the kids done BEFORE they start school. My DD is 4 in late 2010, will be starting school in Feb 2012, so that gives me plenty of time (should i need more than one month between vax).

so at four, the schedule is:
4 years

  • Diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (acellular pertussis) (DTPa)
  • Measles, mumps and German measles (rubella) (MMR)
  • Polio (inactivated poliomyelitis) (IPV)

the gov site refers to TWO injections, although THREE injections are inferred (unless the polio one is the pink stuff on the spoon that you swallow, like i had as an adult).