MMR again

I got the second dose of my MMR last week as planned.

And Beanie is getting his first dose early, tomorrow. I happen to come from one of the worst countries in Europe for take-up of the MMR vaccine and live in the worst country. Here there is yet another outbreak of measles at the moment because vaccinating your child is optional and too many parents decide not to. A 12 year old girl died here in January because of complications due to measles.

I called my paediatrician's office for advice on how to avoid exposing Beanie until he gets his shot at 12 months. Their advice is that he get vaccinated early; it can be given from 9 months of age apparently.

In the meantime, we've stopped going to our weekly playgroup.

I know that the link between MMR and autism has been thoroughly discredited, and I'm a scientific kind of girl. Right now the risk of him getting measles is way way higher than the risk of him having a problem because of the vaccine. It's still in the back of my mind though. And we all know what statistics mean round here.

And then?

Tomorrow I go to get a second dose of the MMR (measles mumps rubella) vaccine.

The two things my OB told me I had to do before getting pregnant again were: get a varicella vaccine and get a second dose of MMR.

Varicella - tick for the actual disease, thanks a lot.
MMR - tomorrow

Then I think I have to wait at least a month after the vaccine (I need to check this)
Beanie will be one year old (can you believe it?)

Then there's nothing more to wait for.

DH and I have made zero progress on discussing another pregnancy as in what would we do if we have another baby with a T21 diagnosis. And frankly I think we will not make any. We will just end up trying again and, if lucky enough to get pregnant again, we will just end up having terrible terrible discussions if that happens.

We're not superpeople. Some things are too hard to plan for.