To not wait for the vaccine

[Sleepyquest]

Before trying for another baby?
It could be months before it's offered to me and then 3 more months until vaccine 2 and then 3 more months until we can try.
At the moment, I feel like now would be a good time to get the awful first trimester out of the way when we can't go out anyway! But DH is worried that if life returned to normal in the Summer, I'd be a shut in and have to shield. We also have a child who has missed out on so much already and I wouldn't want them to miss out on more because of me.

So AIBU to be really impatient and say I will have the vaccine in 9-12 months time instead of wait for it now?

I don't think you're being unreasonable at all. Life must go on to some extent. It's all about risk assessments at times like these. Can you discuss with a GP who knows about your health and potential risk factors?

I work in a hospital. Big things that appear to be putting our pregnant women at higher risk and unfortunately bringing a fair number into ICU include: being overweight (particularly being obese), having diabetes or gestational diabetes, being of certain ethnic minority backgrounds. But of course there are hundreds of other factors and it is best to talk to a GP/doctor.

If I was not ticking these risk factors and had no other health conditions, I would probably consider getting pregnant now. But it's a personal decision to you.

You wouldn’t need to wait 3 months after the second vaccine to ttc.

@KeyWorker

You wouldn’t need to wait 3 months after the second vaccine to ttc.

Yes, you don't need to wait after having it, that was the advice initially but it has been changed now.

Life must go on. I'm planning TTC in the summer come what may.

I would delay! (I'm delaying it due to my job I'm exposed to covid at work). A few of my friends in ITU have treat pregnant ladies where they have died, died after giving birth or loosing their babies.
I wouldn't want covid while pregnant!

Hmm but if I'm going to die from Covid, I'll die regardless of being pregnant surely? If I'm not going to have the vaccine until say July, I could be 5 months pregnant by then.

I think the most important factor for me would be age....would putting off ttc for 6mths make a big difference to you?
I have an 8 day old baby, I had a high BMI and gestational diabetes so ticked all the risk factors but I am 42 and it was literally now or never. I was incredibly careful and shielded in the 3rd trimester.

No @MaryShelley1818 time is on my side but I didn't want a big age gap and baby 1 was born just before covid kicked off I understand why you went for it!

Thanks @TheVeryHungryTortoise that's really great sound advice. I've contacted my GP

Covid is mainly dangerous for older people, so YANBU.

I'd go for it, personally

Well my local surgery had already replied to say GPs can't give advice out about Covid so helpful!

I had covid whilst pregnant and it was no worse than a cold. Pregnant women are not advised to shield - and if life goes back to normal in summer no one will be shielding anyway.

I would just get on with it - unless you are high risk for some other reason.

Plus you are making a big assumption that you will be offered the vaccine this summer. If there are new variants needing different vaccines, they might have to re vaccinate all the elderly before younger people get a first dose.

Well my local surgery had already replied to say GPs can't give advice out about Covid hmm so helpful!

Probably because they would be inundated. Just look it up online - there's advice on the NHS site about covid is pregnancy. Obviously no one can tell you as an individual whether to get pregnant - but the info can help you weigh up the pros and cons

You have a barely one year old, time is on your side and yet you want to try to get pregnant now?

Personally I think you're crackers, but statistically speaking it's a relatively small risk, and logically I can see your POv about getting first trimester our of the way while life is still on hold, so if you're willing to take it fair enough.

@MintyCedric my baby is 15months, if I was to get pregnant now, there would be over 2 years between them so I thought this was quite normal! Maybe I am crazy

Appreciate the advice about the NHS, I've read everything there is but still not sure. The whole thing is shit. Do you really think the vaccine might not be offered this year!?

Seriously I wish you all the luck in the world...I didn't have the kahunas to do it a second time in normal circumstances so probably not the best person to comment !

@ SnackSizeRaisin stop posting misinformation and downplaying the effects of COVID.

Yes, for you it might have been like a cold, but for many, many people it really isn’t. Even for those people who are not hospitalised it is a deeply unpleasant experience - you were one of the lucky ones.

As for the vaccines, nowhere has it been suggested that the vaccine programme is going to be put on hold so the elderly can be re-vaccinated, in fact it was specifically said yesterday by Jonathan Van Tam that if there is a tweaked vaccine for the variants then this will be given as a booster, not instead of.

Stop scaremongering about the vaccine

I had covid whilst pregnant. It was horrendous and the illest I've ever been in my life but my baby is fine and my pregnancy is unaffected. Everyone reacts differently though. It wouldn't stop me trying for a baby if I wasn't currently pregnant.

I thought the advice has changed now, the WHO have said pregnant women can receive the vaccine?

Sorry, that wasn't your question but I wouldn't wait, life goes on! I'm pregnant right now, didn't think twice about delaying and, in fact, it's been ideal timing in a lot of respects!

@Wanderlust20 I hope they have said that! Because then I'd absolutely not wait!

@sylbunny sorry to hear you were so ill :(

@Sleepyquest

Hmm but if I'm going to die from Covid, I'll die regardless of being pregnant surely? If I'm not going to have the vaccine until say July, I could be 5 months pregnant by then.

Pregnancy affects your immune system - particularly in the third trimester, your immune response is weaker. Add in to that decreased lung capacity from a baby squishing your organs and I wouldn't want to catch any respiratory disease while pregnant as outcomes could be much worse.

However, the advice to not get pregnant after the vaccine is now out of date. It's not a live vaccine and can't give you covid. Live vaccines aren't recommended in pregnancy, but none of the approved vaccines would fall under this category. I continued with TTC plans but also I'm going to take the vaccine once it's offered to me.

(I'm currently pregnant, and an immunologist, and waiting to be called for my vaccine any day as I'm vulnerable)

I know this sounds rather depressing but unless you have trouble conceiving and already have other children. Why would you put another human through this uncertain world where thousands are dying every week. I would wait to see how the world pans out this year. You will be putting yourself and an unborn child at risk. I'm of a strong opinion these aren't the times to be deliberately getting pregnant unless the above apply. Put your current family first