I think important to educate yourself. Information about vaccines is rarely unbiased in either direction. I personally think it comes down to how you answer two questions...


1 - If your child caught a natural disease they may not of caught or could have had a milder case of if they were immunised against it, but instead had to deal with the full force of it which may mean they could get very sick or on rare occasion could possibly die, how would you feel about not immunising? Could you forgive yourself for this choice?

2 - If you child had an adverse reaction to the vaccination (understanding that vaccines might not even stop them from catching the disease you're immunising against and on some occasions may even give them the disease you're immunising against), and you then had to deal with the fallout anywhere from sickness to perhaps life long auto-immune, or on rare occasion even death, how would you feel about having made the choice to immunise? Could you forgive yourself for this choice?

I personally think live vaccines are dangerous, but that's just me and I admit I'm extremely biased having a husband who caught typhoid off his typhoid vaccination when he was a kid. Apart from almost killing him, he then had to suffer from 6 years of blindness and kidney issues from all the drugs they gave him. It's REALLY important that you do the work to make an informed decision through your own investigation, not just trusting what people tell you because they will have their own biases, and decide which answer to the top two questions you can live with the most.