I did get a slightly sore throat and a stuffy nose. It felt like a cold was coming on. It lasted until Tuesday morning and that was it. My husband had no side effects. I had the nasal spray and he had the injection.

Our son had a very sleepless night–worse than we’ve ever dealt with–but I am not sure that was due to the shots. He’s also teething. And I’m still breast feeding, and I have to admit I drank way more caffeine than usual that day. I think a little Tylenol before bedtime would have helped. (Or maybe if I’d skipped that Starbucks run.)

Also, both my husband and I felt slightly (and I mean really slightly, like hardly at all) dizzy right after the vaccinations, but I actually think that might have been psychological.

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H1N1, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to be in. I found out about this clinic and just decided to go ahead and do it, since our pediatrician’s office really could not tell me when the H1N1 would actually arrive.

I think you can get your baby the shots–over six months is fine, I believe. At least it was at ours. My son is only 16 months old and they took him. They gave us a form with the information about his second shot. So it was all pretty doable with LA County Public Health. I wonder if it’s different where you are.

Got season vaccines for my two girls, but this was only after 8 or 9 phone calls to my pediatrician’s office. My 18 month old is too young for the clinics, so I”m really stuck going to a doctor. And, she needs a 2nd dose since that was her first go ’round with the seasonal vaccine. When can she get it? Who knows. The office is now out of seasonal and do not have the H1N1 yet. No ideas when they are going to get either back in.

FYI (and I have to write some more about this), there’s really no danger from thimerasol. If they only had those shots left, I woulda said, yep, shoot the kid up with it. Thimerasol was taken out of the shots as a public relations move, and it was a move that backfired horribly. The public thought, “Well, if they’re taking it out, it musta been bad!” But it was never proven to cause autism. It was good that we were provided with thimerasol free options just because that way more skittish people will actually get vaccinated and get their kids vaccinated. But that’s about it. I would feel totally comfortable giving my baby a shot with it still in there.

My 2-year-old got the flumist, since it was the thimerisol-free option. We have to figure out where to go in 4 weeks for the follow-up. I’d be interested in your research about how much immunity the kiddos get from that first dose.

We live in an area that is not big enough to warrant organized health departments but so big that lines are upwards of 3-4 hours to get this shot. I can’t do that twice, I don’t have the strength with a 21 month old.

This year our pediatrician didn’t even rate enough to get the seasonal shot, we had to wait for 2 hours at the ISD. Glad he didn’t need 2!

I’ve gotten an email from my kids’ school telling us that they’ll be vaccinating the kids there. The school explained that parents can choose to opt out, but obviously we want them to have the vaccine.