After some though DH and I decided to get our children fully vaccinated. Our reasoning for this was that we felt that as well as our responsibilty to our children we also had a wider social responsibility. We hope to travel with our children in the future not just in developed nations but also in less developed areas where children are far more vunerable to disease. Whilst healthy well nourished western children might usually find it possible to shake off childhood diseases such as measles, in a community with lower standards of sanitation and nutrition such as some Aboriginal communities in Australia or villages in Afghanistan an outbreak of measles could have potentially devastating consequences. Rather than risk introducing diseases into communities that we might travel to we decided to vaccinate.