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• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 20 >> Describe the changes in their son from the time that he had the MMR vaccine.

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 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 09 >> The MMR vaccine had no effect on her daughter who had eczema.

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 1-2 years >> Interview 22 >> Her son had no reaction to the MMR vaccine.

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

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 29 >> She felt too frightened to give her other children MMR because of the reaction her oldest son had.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Reactions that their first son had to MMR influenced their decisions for their other children.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 5 years plus >> Interview 11 >> Her daughter's health problems improved after she had MMR.

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 27 >> Her son who had an egg allergy had no reaction to his MMR vaccine.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Talked to health visitor but found it more useful to talk to other parents, including one who had a relative who was a doctor. Read newspaper articles and listened to media reports.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 31 >> Having been very worried while making their decision, her son's MMR vaccine had been a bit of a non-event.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Talked to her GP and to her hospital consultant. Read information in newspapers and on the Internet. Talked to friends and investigated single vaccines. A friend in the USA helped her to make a final decision.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 26 >> Explains the changes in their daughter at the time she had her MMR vaccine.

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

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 29 >> Her son was agitated and started having petit mal epilepsy after his MMR vaccine and was diagnosed with viral encephalitis.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Reactions that their first son had to MMR influenced their decisions for their other children.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 20 >> They believed MMR triggered autism in their older son and were concerned about the safety of the vaccine.

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 14 >> Advice from the consultant helped her to decide to give her daughter further immunisations after she had a reaction to the first set.

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 1-2 years >> Interview 29 >> Describes the health problems her son continued to develop after viral encephalitis was diagnosed when he was thirteen months old.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Reactions that their first son had to MMR influenced their decisions for their other children.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 20 >> They had a personal belief that MMR triggered autism in their older son and they decided not to give any immunisations to their youngest son.

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 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 1-2 years >> Interview 36 >> Her daughter didn't have any reaction after her MMR vaccine.

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 1-2 years >> Interview 26 >> Talks about their difficulty in getting the doctors to explain the reasons for his daughter's symptoms.

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 was concerned that swelling which had occurred in her daughter's arm after MMR, might happen with her son.

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 5 years plus >> Interview 11 >> Describes her five-year-old daughter as happy and healthy and not affected at all by her MMR vaccine.

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 38 >> Her daughter was very irritable after her MMR vaccine but she returned to normal after twelve to fourteen days.

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 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 1-2 years >> Interview 20 >> Explain why they believe the changes in their son's behaviour were triggered by the MMR vaccine.

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 1-2 years >> Interview 24 >> Her son had a mild rash a few days after his MMR vaccine, it disappeared within twenty-four hours.

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.

• 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 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 1-2 years >> Interview 04 >> Her daughter had been a little under the weather for a few days after her MMR vaccine.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR she talked to the health visitor and GP, listened to media reports and trusted the decision that her boss had made about immunisation.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 13 >> Her son had an unusually strong local reaction to the second dose of the MMR vaccine, which is a rare occurrence.

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 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 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.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 16 >> Possible reactions to the vaccine worried her but her son had been fine after all three sets of immunisations.

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 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.