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• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Interview 42 >> A paediatrician explains how immunisation works.

A consultant paediatrician talks about immunisations.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 01 >> It's important to help to eradicate infectious diseases.

For DTP/IPV/Hib: Followed the recommendations of health professionals. Reading newspapers and magazine articles, talking to their GP, a private doctor and to friends helped her to make her decision about MMR.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Interview 42 >> A paediatrician talks about why we immunise babies and young children.

A consultant paediatrician talks about immunisations.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 5 years plus >> Interview 11 >> It is important to consider the long-term implications of not immunising your children.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Gathered information from the media and talked to other mums at playgroup and to their health visitor. Advice from their GP helped them to make a decision.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 22 >> In her work as a community paediatrician, she has seen children with some of these diseases.

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

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 06 >> Her relative was seriously ill from mumps which influenced her decision to vaccinate her children.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. Talking to other parents whose child had MMR and using the Internet to gather information on both sides of the argument helped her to make a decision about her daughter's MMR immunisation.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 32 >> Her relative was very unwell with measles when he was a child and she feels that her own children should be protected through immunisation.

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 under 1 >> Interview 10 >> She preferred to nurse her children through any of the diseases and chose not to immunise her children.

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 20 >> Believe the diseases can have unpleasant symptoms and dangerous complications but feel that the government tries to frighten people in to taking up th

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals for two eldest boys. For MMR: They followed recommendations of health professionals for two eldest boys. Reactions that their second son had to MMR, an extensive review of research papers in medical journals, and using the Internet to read about both pro and anti immunisation arguments helped them to make their decisions for their youngest son.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 03 >> Immunisations are an important medical advance and parents need to immunise their children to prevent diseases recurring.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed the recommendations of health professionals. She used the Internet to gather information on MMR, particularly from a parenting web site and talked to her Mum, which helped her to make a decision.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 5 years plus >> Interview 43 >> Thought it was important not to scare parents in to having the immunisations but it was also important not to underestimate how serious these diseases

For all immunisations: His medical training helped him to make immunisation decisions for his children.