to jab or not to jab???

I have had Piper immunised for everything and she has not had any bad reactions. If I did not do it and she got ill I think I would feel a bit guilty. Also my mums uncle had polio and its not nice

i totally agree, it is a personal chooice and i don't think any of us here would judge someone for choosing either way. i am glad that i was fully informed both ways though instead of getting all the one-sided stuff that's supposed to convince you that immunising is the best thing to do. even though i did decide to immunise in the end, i'm glad i knew more about both sides.

As far as I know, your child cannot be excluded from school if they have not been immunised, not sure if the same applies to kindergartens. You do have to provide a copy of their immunisation certificate either way so that if there is an outbreak of disease they are aware of which children are not immunised and can contact the parents accordingly. Furthermore, they are not legally allowed to question your decision not to immunise your child, and you are not obliged to tell them why you chose not to.

With the autism thing, it sounds like your friend's little man has had a pretty rough time! There was some suggestion that autism is linked to immunisation, and some websites still advocate this information, but subsequent in-depth studies have shown no link at all. The common factor is the age at which the immunisations are given - it is around the same age that things like brain damage, autism etc. also begin to present themselves, but general medical opinion at the current time is that this is simply a coincidence.

Not trying to change anyones mind or anything like that, its just that I wrote the OHbaby! immunisation pages with help from IMAC and that's what I learnt along the way.

Now I can't find our immunisation page... looks like cyberspace swallowed it up when we upgraded the site, but am hunting thru the old files to try and find it.