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• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 25 >> Recognise that the MMR decision is a difficult one for many parents.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Talked to friends who were doctors. Used the Internet to search for information. Were influenced by the prime minister's response to questioning about immunisation decisions for his son.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 35 >> Put yourself in the frame of mind of a parent.

For all immunisations: Her medical training and her experience of growing up in a third world country helped her to make decisions about her daughter's immunisations.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 21 >> Remember the personal approach when talking to parents.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Sought out information that was balanced and not biased towards only pro or anti immunisation arguments. Read books written by anthroposophical medical doctors, which influenced her decision.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 23 >> Don't assume that at the six week check, parents will be having the immunisation.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Spoke to friends in the UK and Germany who were medically qualified. Experience of immunisation for her oldest daughter in Germany by anthroposophical doctors influenced her decision. She felt there was little opportunity to discuss immunisations with her own GP and health visitor.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 17 >> Listen carefully to parents' concerns so that you can answer their questions.

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 37 >> Acknowledge and explain all the risks involved with immunisations, rather than dismiss parent's concerns.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of the health professionals. For MMR: Gathered information from the media, and talked to friends who were doctors. His own experience of working with children with learning difficulties informed their decision.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 28 >> It is better to give a professional opinion and explain on what evidence the opinion has been based, rather than just give out the government line.

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 14 >> Be honest about the reasons behind some of the advice given.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Found it most useful to talk to friends who had already made decisions about their children's immunisations. Took on board recommendations of health professionals.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 05 >> Find out what parents' concerns are and address them.

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.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 10 >> Her questions and concerns were not answered by the health professionals she talked to which contributed to her decision not to immunise.

For DTP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals for her first child. For further immunisations: Read leaflets given to her by her homeopath, read books and talked to her health visitor and GP. Gathered some information from the media but was aware that it may be biased to a specific perspective.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 26 >> Would have preferred the doctor not to have dismissed out of hand his concern that his daughter might have had a serious reaction to MMR.

For all immunisations: Followed recommendations of health professionals. Believed media only presented one side of the argument.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 13 >> She would have liked the health visitor to take her concerns about possible reactions to MMR seriously.

For all immunisations: Followed recommendations of health professionals. After her daughter had a reaction to the MMR vaccine, she talked to her health visitor to make a decision about her youngest son's immunisations.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 38 >> It helped her to make a decision when the health professional talked to her from one mother to another.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed the recommendations of the health professionals. MMR decisions: Talked to their health visitor and a paediatrician and searched for information using the Internet, talked to friends in the USA, read articles in the media but it was talking to a health professional at Great Ormond Street that helped her to make her decision for both her children.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 28 >> She was more reassured when it was obvious that a health professional had reviewed the evidence themselves and could give an informed opinion.

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 3-4 years >> Interview 09 >> You need to make sure you are informed, listen to professionals and read up.

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 13 >> She would have liked the health visitor to take her concerns about possible reactions to MMR seriously.

For all immunisations: Followed recommendations of health professionals. After her daughter had a reaction to the MMR vaccine, she talked to her health visitor to make a decision about her youngest son's immunisations.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 10 >> Her questions and concerns were not answered by the health professionals she talked to which contributed to her decision not to immunise.

For DTP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals for her first child. For further immunisations: Read leaflets given to her by her homeopath, read books and talked to her health visitor and GP. Gathered some information from the media but was aware that it may be biased to a specific perspective.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 05 >> Find out what parents' concerns are and address them.

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.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 28 >> It is better to give a professional opinion and explain on what evidence the opinion has been based, rather than just give out the government line.

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 17 >> Listen carefully to parents' concerns so that you can answer their questions.

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 22 >> Talk to the community paediatrician if you have concerns.

For all immunisations: Her medical training helped her to make immunisation decisions for her son.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 18 >> Reading books and talking to other parents and health professionals is more helpful because the amount of information on the Internet can be overwhelm

For all immunisations: They used the Internet to search for research papers in medical journals, read books, talked to other parents about their decisions which were both pro and anti immunisation and talked to the midwife at their birth group and to their GP.

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Information from health professionals

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Messages to health professionals