Dm, I chose to vaccinate my ds. (note the word vaccinate,as we've all been using- very important- the word immunisations is misleading I think, it seems to imply a child is completley immune when we know they are not). The mitigating factor for me was that at the time I was working in a children's hospital. I did my research, and weighed up my risks- it was the fact that I would regularly come into contact with people who were possible infectious that swayed my desicion.

Having said that, it's not been such an easy descion with dd because I am no longer working there. However, I decided that because we regularly go to daycare, playgroup, swimming, etc- we are in contact with other kids at least 4 days a week- I'm using that as my justifcation for vaccinating dd.

It's not an easy desicion to make. I am happy with the descions I've made, but I still feel a lot of trepidation reading threads like this- the risks of vaccinating are real, and quite scary.

Just with the Hep B vac- I decided not to do it at birth. The main reason behind that was that if an adult was being vaccinated against Hep B, they would get 3 needles, but for some reason we give little children four. My mw tells me it's because there are a lot of people choosing not to vaccinate, so they try to 'catch' people before the baby leaves hospital.