Edward has his jabs on Monday and now I'm starting to worry about it. With his early jabs he was very sleepy afterwards and grumpy for a couple of days. Does anyone know if this is what I should expect again?

P.s I don't want a debate on if people think it is right or wrong just advice is fine xx

Amelia had hers 2wks ago tomorrow.

They do one in each thigh again and she didn't even cry !

She had a slight temperature and had 'cold' symptoms, runny nose, slight temp etc.
There was one very concerning side effect though, her leg swelled up loads!! Where the injection was it was about the size of a fist in diameter and swelled out about 1.5cm! It was also very red, hot and hard.

Good thing is....apparently thats a normal reaction!

Can't think of anything else.

How old is he? I only ask cause he looks kinda young in your siggy and I read this about giving it before 15mo

n the national outbreak of measles during the late 1980's and early 1990's, it also became apparent that children who had been vaccinated before 15 months of age were also at risk for vaccine failure, especially if their mothers had recovered naturally from measles disease as children. An MMR vaccine manufacturer states "Infants who are less than 15 months of age may fail to respond to the measles component of the vaccine due to presence in the circulation of residual measles antibody of maternal origin, the younger the infant, the lower the likelihood of seroconversion." The manufacturer goes on to advise that infants vaccinated at less than 12 months of age will have to be revaccinated after 15 months of age even though "there is some evidence to suggest that infants immunized at less than one year of age may not develop sustained antibody levels when later immunized."


I just wanted to put that out there since they do recommend anytime between 12-15mo

We have stopped vaccinating but my oldest had it and he reacted no differently than with any other vaccine. Slight temp, grumpy for a day, really sleepy for a day, and sore...nothing else though.

I think you advised me of this Mommyof3co. Thanks

I would recommend waiting for the MMR if you can till they are 15mnths. Amelia was 2wks short of 15mnths but then she was born 2wks late too!

He's just turned 1. That pic is when he was about 6-7months (I love it though hehe). I'm really starting to panic about it now and was considering putting it off til after christmas anyway but this may have swayed me

I've just had the appointment through for Thomas's next lot of jabs - he will have just turned 1 when the appointment is - now Im wondering whether we should leave it a bit longer...hmmm gonna have to read up on this now! I was none the wiser before!