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• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 02 >> Her son developed a swelling on his leg 48 hours after his injection which lasted two weeks.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib they followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Read research papers in medical journals and talked to family members. Media reports and Department of Health literature had little influence on their decision.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 15 >> After the 2, 3 and 4 months old immunisations, her son had flu-like symptoms for a couple of days.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Experiences of friends who had had their child immunised were useful. Gathered information from newspaper articles, Department of Health leaflets and the media. Spoke to her parents and friends.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 09 >> Apart from being more tired than usual, her daughters experienced no reaction to their 2, 3 and 4 month old immunisations.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Took advice from their GP. Talked to friends and her grandmother who could remember childhood illnesses before immunisation. She regarded media reports as largely biased and scaremongering.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 17 >> Her daughter had swollen eyes eleven hours after her second set of injections at 3 months old.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: After her daughter had a reaction to the second set of immunisations she took advice from her GP, a hospital consultant and a doctor friend. In addition she got a second opinion from a paediatric immuniologist, which helped her to make a decision.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 32 >> Her eldest son didn't have any reaction and her younger son was irritable and had a temperature for a day or two after his first set of immunisations.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Didn't feel the need to search widely for information but talked to her health visitor and read information in the media before making her decisions.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 08 >> Her son had a febrile convulsion after his second set of immunisations.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Read information recommended by relatives which was both pro and anti immunisation, read NHS information leaflets, talked to her GP and to friends.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 24 >> Her premature baby stopped breathing briefly but he was carefully monitored and he had his second set of immunisations in hospital.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Took advice from her son's Paediatrician. Information from a television documentary had an influence. Discussion with other mums of premature babies helped her to make a decision.