I was always on track with both my children’s childhood NHS vaccination schedules – that’s until they reached their first birthdays. Until then, like many mums, I was just a little nervous about my little eight-week-old baby being jabbed in the thigh by a nurse with their first doses of the six-in-one vaccine, Rotavirus, and MenB vaccine because they cried so much and didn’t understand what I was doing to them.
After each immunisation was recorded in their red plastic medical book, though, I took a deep sigh of relief. I was told to give them Calpol if they developed a mild fever, irritability, or were harder to settle – and to come back at 12 and 16 weeks for the second or third doses, plus the pneumococcal vaccine. No problem.
