I am really scared to get my daughter vaccinated against MMR?

Just think--wouldn't it be devastating to you, if in addition to all the other heartbreak that is involved with autism, the doctors refused to believe that the MMR had anything to do with your daughter's regression into autism. Imagine you witnessed your daughter become autistic following the MMR, you knew it was from the MMR, and the doctors wrote it off as coincidence because "this is the typical time for kids to become autistic."

Why not wait until age 3 1/2 or 4 or even later to give the MMR? Then, at least the doctors wouldn't be able to use that excuse to not believe you. And you would have extra time to do more research and decide if you want to give the vaccine at all.

1 in 110 kids in the United States has autism. About 60 people in the entire U.S. get measles per year. In 2008, during the measles outbreak, 131 people in the U.S. got measles. Nobody died or had any lasting problems. What do you think is the greater risk? Autism or measles?

Telling your pediatrician that you are nervous will not change a thing in regards to how the vaccine will or will not affect your daughter. Keep in mind that plenty of people who don't have anxiety disorder are very nervous about this vaccine. Don't make the mistake of confusing your sacred motherly instinct with paranoia.

By the way, you can most likely blame your shingles on the chickenpox vaccine. Because there are fewer kids getting chickenpox these days, adults are not getting the natural immunity boosters that nature intended, and shingles is becoming a lot more common.

Sophie, you've confused mumps with diphtheria. So I question your claim that you've looked over vaccines "a hundred times."

afterthestorm, you asked G*star how she would feel if her daughter got rubella. Most likely, she would have no idea if her daughter got rubella, since as many as 50% of the cases are so mild they don't show any symptoms at all.

I plan to vaccinate my little girl. I haven't really done research, but where I live in NC, they cannot start public school without them. So anything that is a MUST she will have. As for the MMR, I do plan to have that done as well and this is why. I had to have it done around the age of 19/20 because I work in the medical field, and you MUST have had it in order to graduate from school and work the EMS field. I got it and for about 2 days it made me very sick, but as I was told by my mother almost every vaccine made me have flu like symptoms when I was younger. I would rather get them done at an early age, done at once, be sick once, and then move on and not have to have them again. But again this is just me. Honestly no I did not realize it was so many vaccines. Also you are looking into other countries. Are you in the US? If so you cannot use the UK's or anyone else's protocols on vaccines. Every countries CDC is a little different, and therefore so are the vaccines. If you have a population that has a higher chance of getting something, then that vaccine is altered a little to fit that population better.

I have the exact same thing going on right now. I have a 4 yr old son he was 9 lbs when he was born and I hadn't heard all the things about the mmr vaccine that i've now heard so he had it on his 1 yr checkup. My daughter is 16 months I told the doctor i wanted to wait a few more months before she got the mmr vaccine because

I've heard it's good to wait..In japan they say you should wait until your child is 2. I'm waiting until she turns 2.

I know the feeling sometimes when you research it just makes you paranoid and more anxious.My children have had their vaccinations with no problems but I guess that's no comfort to you.I have put off my son getting vaccinated for swine flu because I looked a lot up on the internet and I didn't know what to do and was terrified.He has asthma so I have had to think and think.I think I've thought too much and he has not had the vaccine.It's in my personality too to just worry and worry I think you should go in to the clinic and discuss this with one of the doctors or nurses and see if they can ease your fears.It might help and good luck your daughter will be fine I'm sure.

hi i completely understan how you feel my daughter is 4 next month and i kept cancelling her appointments for the mmr, i left it till my son was 4 before he had his mmr, i think with the horror stories symptoms of autism seem to come out about 18mnths to 2 yrs so it is coiincidental. i have a autistic brother in law that was one of the reasons for the delay and i have always thought that the mmr and autism were linked!! as there has been no research either way. i dont think u will ever know 100%. but you need to ask yourself the question of wat if your lil girl doesnt havent it and she catches a severe case of measles!! because of not havin the mmr she would not be protected against these serious illnesses in worst case the measles can cause brain damage or even death i know that i would not be able to live with myself. i finally plucked up the courage and yesterday my daughter had the MMR she wasnt happy about n was distressed about the needles but at the end of the day i want her healthy.

i know its a hard decision to make and good luck but think long and hard b4 you make ur decision xx

Yeah they say the same for mercury being in the Rho-gam shot too. Don't scare yourself. I mean really its your choice to way out the risk of autism vs. disease. It's very rare it says on the vacination sheets that these cases are so rare that they can't even make it a statitic. But think of it this way. Schools, WIC, certain health coverages, daycares, colleges, will not take your daughter if they are not vaccinated unless the cause is religious and even then you may be turned down.

The web has a alot of debates on these things. If you go to a site that is for vaccination its not hinted about stuff like that. If you go to one against it it will warn all this stuff just like any debate site an such.

It's your choice but I would rather live risk having my son beig autistic then die. I've seen autistic kids live a normal life it just depends on if you shelter them or treat them normally.

The benefit of this vaccine completely outweighs any minute risks - did you know that the doctor that said the vaccine caused autism has actually been made to give a public apology, as he was wrong. The vaccine was never actually linked to autism, it was just co-incidence that some of the children who had the vaccine were diagnosed with autism.

my daughter also missed her jab app at 13 months, and had it at 20 months instead, which I think benefited her as her immune system was stronger.

Measles can kill children, Mumps can cause the throat to close and causes suffocation...dont you think it would be best to protect your child against this.

I am also a very anxious mum...everything that concerns my daughter's health gets looked over a hundred times and questioned beyond belief, but the vaccine is safe.

Autism is not proven to be caused by the MMR vaccine, it is a heireditory condition and cannot be contracted just by a simple vaccine.

Definitely get her vaccinated. She won't die from autism, but she could die from mumps, measles or rubella if you don't get her vaccinated.

You're going to have to put your fears aside about this and just think for your daughter. Just imagine if she got mumps, measles or rubella, how bad would you feel then? The chances of that happening are infinity times the chance of her developing autism, as there is NO link.

'I want to get her vaccinated' that's what you've told us in your question, and your reason not to is that 'it still terrifies me'. You've done things in life befoe that you want to do but are terrified of, I'm sure. Don't make this the time that you back out because of the terror.

Best if luck, it will be fine :)

There is no proof what so ever to link autism and the mmr vaccination. I know though if you read something enough you start to believe it and well it still scares me but, i will vaccinate.