I hate taking her for such things so much. In fact if I were ever to become pregnant I think the thought of having to give the baby the jabs is enough to send me to the adoption agency!
I know that my daughter had to have them, rather the jabs than measles, diptheria, tetanus, whooping cough, mumps, rubella etc etc and whatever else was in the cocktail that was prodded into her arms. But its the active illness that she gets from having them I hate.
She had a very very bad reaction to the MMR when she had it at 13 months, we had 3 weeks of extremely high temperatures, rashes over and over and a terrible time of it, sending me backwards and forwards to the gp who said it was just a bad reaction to the jab and to bear with it.
So this time around I am even more concerned, after the inital jabs with needles that were 1/2 the thickness of her arms (the nurse changed the needle size after she pulled up her sleeve and saw how little she was, but compared to my daughters arms the barb was still massive.) She was okay, but by the evening, the rising temperature started, (she was a little lethargic but nothing too ill.) The temperature continued into the next day, and her arms were both hurting, so taking off clothes and putting them back on was really difficult. By Sunday she has a runny nose, so her body was obviously working like a trooper in firing up her immune system.
Now she is like a ticking time bomb waiting for the MMR part to begin working. I find myself hovering over her to watch for the next symptom, I barely sleep in the concern in the night and want to cuddle the potential illness from her. I hate it. Her arms look like they have been burnt from the redness that she has. I feel bad for taking her for the jabs. She is bound to be ill in a few days time from the measles live vaccine, because she just IS that sort of child, but there is no choice, much rather this than the actual illnesses.
Perhaps in the long run my desire to protect her from any pain causing me to fret so much means I'm sure I come off worse, but who would ever want to let their child be ill? I think it will always be a case of dammed if you immunise and damned if you don't.
Oh well over and done will now till she is a teenager, and she will probably be a grumpy old thing by then and if she gets a sore arm I'll secretly think "good!"
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Awww, poor little thing. I really hope she doesn't react too badly. We have the boosters still to come...reading your post makes me worry more about it!
Hugs to the little one.
What are pre-school boosters? Is it something softie Southerners get but us hard scottish types living in the very cold and windy don't need???
On a serious note, hope she is not affected like her MMR.
I'm sorry that L is feeling poorly. My LO has his on thursday and I'm dreading it as he wasn't well after his first lot. My littlest had his first one on thursday and so I'm waiting for the next 2 weeks of moaning. At least I send them to a childminder 3 days a week (even when they're ill)
Sorry to hear of all the trouble she's had. My small boy has not had any reactions (apart from the rumoured but not believed allergy to sticking plaster). Even the BCG failed to leave a mark. I do wonder if they are actually working for him and dread the day he does finally get a proper illness. By that time your girl will have grown out of all illness and be the healthiest strongest thing around.
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