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• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 34 >> In Orthodox Jewish families, parents often follow what decision their own mothers made about immunisation.

For all immunisations: Trusted and followed the advice of her Orthodox Jewish GP. Took in to account her parent's views and the fact she had immunisations as a child. Information from family and friends in the local community also influenced her decision.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 09 >> Her grandmother told her what life was like before immunisations were available.

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 3-4 years >> Interview 28 >> She talked to family friends who were doctors about their decisions for their own children or grandchildren.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Talked to friends, her father who is a doctor, family friends who were doctors, and alternative practitioners. Gathered some information from the media. Talked to their GP about her daughter's egg allergy.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 05 >> She trusted her brother's advice because of the information he gathered through his job.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Information and advice from her brother, who works for a medical journal, experience of other children in the family being immunised with no ill effects, belief that some media reports were sensationalised and talking to the practice nurse helped her to make a decision.