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I had it done in 1970 because the little boy next door had TB and me and both kids had to have it, daughter was only a year old . Ann :-0)

I've just read all the other BAD MOTHER letters on here. I feel much better now..... wonder where my youngest is?? Could go and break somerthing for him !!! I'M KIDDING!!! lol He is 34 now and he can do his own breaking.... God forbid! Deanna X

You're not a bad mother Deanna!!! I sent my son to school with 'insect bites' only to have the school tell me he had chickenpox and my mum nearly killed me by thinking that I was just going down with measles when I had meningitis! I didn't have the BCG because my skin test went weird - I had to go have a chest x-ray instead, but it showed nothing abnormal. Bev x

Yes OC.... the shouting at them and telling them to stop being silly... that is really the worst bit isn't it? That stays with you forever. Never mind.... all we have to look forwrd to is THEM having their own children and making all the same mistakes as well did!! :-0) Deanna X

I have but not till I was grown up and went to work in a hospital, never suffered any ill effects, all my kids have been immunised.. Barbara..xx

I had my BCG, didn't react to the dasiy that I know of, but then they didn't chech anyway. my brother had his and I don't think he even had the daisy done. One of my friends had to have a TB test last year before she could get a visa to travel to the US for 10 weeks dispited having having a scar from the BCG she had in school. Deanna, your not a bad mother at all. I recently heared of a Doctor that left his son working arounf on a broken leg for a week or two because the kid was such a wingger, poor Dr thought it was just a sprain as the kid could still walk but with pain, he was amaised to see the xray. So don't beat yourself up.

Deanna You're not a bad mother we all do it. Sent eldest to a birthday party even though she had a sore arm. The night before she took the dog for a walk with hubby and fell over on the beach. Waited till the next night to take her to the hospital and she had a broken collarbone. When she fell out of bed and broke both bones in her arm she ended up in hospital in theatre to have it pulled into position. The second night in hospital she woke up wanted the loo and she tried to wake me and apparently I wasn't very nice to her, she had to call a nurse who woke me up.

I did. M.

Deanna So am I! Daughter fooling around on the bed, fell off backwards. I told her off, told her to stop making such a fuss and put her to bed. Next day, cried when I tried to put her vest on. Stop this right now, I am not in the mood for it, I said. She whined and cried all day. By late afternoon, even I had decided it might have gone on a bit too long, took her to A and E - broken collar bone. Disgusted looks from the Doctor, nurses, cleaners etc - didnt you realise she had hurt herself? Baaaad mother... OC

3 of my children did not need it, bgut the fourth one did. I don't know if I've ever had it, we had so many injections etc. when we were children (travelling with the army) I have to look up to see what I've had. For all you mums who have left your children in pain.... it's in the *Mothers Hand Book of mistakes to make*... We have all done it. I left my poor son over night with a broken arm. He had so many broken arms and I just thought he could not be THAT unlucky! I left my 2.1/2 year old daughter with a broken arm... all week end. She was such a bloomin MOAN that I did not think it was anything other than her usual... moaning. Eventually called the doctor who said 'better safe than sorry! When the ambulance came for her , and the abulance man moved her arm around a bit... she fluttered her eyelashes at him and smiled sweetly! He said no, but we will take her in just to be sure. Greenstick fracture and plaster!! The day my daughter had her appendics out, I said, sore chest? That is a new one... School! They sent her home at about 2.00, and she had had them out... just in time by about 5.30!! I admit it, I'm a bad mother.... just realised it as I typed this! Deanna X :-0(

Julie - thats interesting that they ran out in 2000. Son had his at birth in 2001. Midwife kept saying that they were in short supply, the fact that she had to throw 2 away when she dropped them on the floor probably didn't help the situation..................................

My mum did something similar,she left me in agony with appendicitis(sp) for a whole weekend with nothing but a hot water bottle and paracetomol.By the time she rang the doctor they said my appendix was dangerously close to bursting! BB xx

oh please do not go there i have never had the BCG i have however had countless Heaf tests and had to have chest Xrays cos the were positive!

I had it - memorable for the fact the the phone went as the school nurse was injecting and she answered it, leaving the needle in my arm and came back to it when she'd finished talking!! Mags xx

No. I had such a bad reaction to the skin test that I spent two days in hospital with my arm in icepacks. They also did an X ray which showed that I had had TB and recovered all by myself. My mother was absolutely mortified as she remembered me complaining about not feeling well a couple of years previously. BAAAAAAD MOTHER! I got away with murder for a long time after that - my mum only had to raise her voice and I would cough piteously... OC

I was one of the few at school who didn't have it (1980's), they always told me my eczema was too bad. Children both had it at birth. I read in a paper several months ago that batches of the vaccine may not have worked and there are possibly a lot of children out there who are not protected even though they had the jab. I have tried to get vaccinated recently, but been told I'm not in a high risk group. Apparently TB is on the increase again, considering how prevalent it was in the past, makes a worrying prospect.

I had - 40 years ago... My aunt died of TB 4 years before I was born

i did....had a phobia of needles,still do but not as bad,and had to be held down by 2 nurses and my mum....pmsl BB xx

Yes about 8 years ago Suzy :o) x

Twice once at school and again when i worked at the hospital