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Yes, my LO got the flu shot last year and this year. No reaction last year when she was about 5 months old, but this year she got this weird rash afterwards. The doctors insisted that it wasn't from the flu shot and yet were not able to give any other reason for it. She broke out the same day, got the flu shot in the morning and broke out by the evening. So....I am not convinced. The rash went away and she never got sick so I guess it's ok. I don't want to risk her getting the flu but the shot doesn't make me entirely comfortable for sure.

I was just talking with my husband about getting a flu shot for DD. She didn't get a flu shot last year because she was really young and we had a privte nanny, but now she's in daycare, which requires she get her flu shot. I imagine we'll go to the clinic in the next few weeks, to get her shot. I hope she doesn't have a reaction, but definitely a slight reaction is better than the alternative.

em just got a flu shot at her 18 month appt. absolutely no reactions.

My daughter (she's 21months) got her shot last week and no problems, no obvious side-effects.

I got mine a few weeks ago (around 9 weeks pregnant) and just had a sore arm for a day or so. When I was pregnant with my daughter I had to get the regular flu vaccine as well as the H1N1- and had nothing happen with either- not even the sore arm.

Since the vaccine causes an immune response, there may just be variations in how strongly you react- which can vary based on lots of factors.

Hope Claire has no side-effects!!