• Clip
• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 36 >> A chat with a health professional with written information to take away is a better way to get information.

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.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 06 >> Assumptions shouldn't be made that parents will immunise their children and more information should be given to help them to make their decision.

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 26 >> More information should be available on the side effects of immunisations.

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

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 03 >> Parents need more information when changes are made to vaccines.

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 1-2 years >> Interview 32 >> She read the leaflets and found that they provided answers to the things she had been worried about.

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 1-2 years >> Interview 16 >> A comprehensive information pack needs to be sent with the appointment card.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Found it useful to talk to their health visitor, other parents who had already had their child immunised and to their extended family. Read information in parenting magazines, a parenting web site and newspaper articles.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 21 >> Objective information giving both the advantages and disadvantages of immunisation is needed.

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 1-2 years >> Interview 35 >> Parents need to be given comprehensive information from health professionals.

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 20 >> Parents should have access to the vaccine product insert sheets listing the side effects and contents of the vaccines.

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 3-4 years >> Interview 28 >> Wanted statistical information on the chances of getting a reaction to the vaccine as detailed by the vaccine manufacturer and the chances of getting

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 28 >> More information should be given about the reasons that lie behind the changes that have been made to the immunisation programmes over the years.

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.