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Interview 36

Interview 36

Background: At time of interview: married, one daughter, aged 17 months. Parent's occupation: Mother- Administrator, Father- Civil Servant. Ethnic background: Bangladeshi.

Brief outline:For all immunisations: Her experience of working in a Child Health department helped her to make her decisions. Her midwife talked to her and gave her information leaflets, which also helped.

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Believed that what will be, will be.
Print The way I went about thinking about immunisation was, the thing is I work in the Child Health department, putting in information on children anyway. So I've got that background anyway. And I've got some leaflets from the health visitors and GPs about all the immunisations and the causes of not having it. So I made that decisions that I would want my daughter to have the immunisations for, to protect her from any illnesses. I think it's really important to have all the immunisations because it's protecting your child from other illnesses. Because I mean I couldn't forgive myself if anything was to happen, and as a parent I would want to protect my baby as well as I can. And so there, there are vaccinations available, so that's why I took the opportunity to, for my child to be immunised. And did you discuss it with anybody? Apart from the leaflets that you got from your GP and here? Well, there was a lot of people saying about the MMR, like friends and family saying that autism and, but, and then you get leaflets as well and it says it's not really linked to it. But it's just, you just have to make that decision as a parent. Because at the end of the day what happens is, what's going to happen is, is going to happen. You can't really stop anything. But if I can, you know, help my baby to be more protected, then I'll do my best. So I'll know I tried.

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