Vaccinations

The Family Practice Doctors Surgery in Cotham, just across the road from my flat. 

Such a beautiful building.

Last week I had the whooping cough (including tetanus and polio) and flu vaccinations at my doctors surgery. (None of these were live viruses).

It took me a long time to decide whether or not to have the vaccinations. After lots of reading and talking to people, including my father-in-law Colin who is a surgeon, I decided to go ahead with them.

I know that vaccinations have been very controversial over the last few years and that every parent must decide on their own, but I felt at this stage of moving into winter that it was an important thing for me to do. These vaccinations will also protect our baby for her first couple of months once she arrives, as the whooping cough epidemic especially has been on the rise world-wide since 2010.

I feel really grateful because we are so lucky to have such a wonderful health care system in this country. I'm thankful that we are offered such vaccinations for free on the nhs.

As I am using this blog as a kind of diary for our baby I'll list my

Other Vaccinations:

First, Second and Third vaccinations 1979

Tetanus, Polio and Diptheria

Rubella, Tetanus and Polio 1994

Illnesses during childhood:

Whooping cough

Measles

Mumps

Chicken pox

Shingles