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?

Personally if I was looking to have another baby I'd try for it now. So many things in life are uncertain - you might get secondary infertility, you might have another illness, job loss, come into some money, move house, have twins... covid is just one of many things that you can't control. You just have to do the best you can with the situation you get.
If I was in a job where I was at particularly high risk of getting covid now and I was really young and it was my first baby then maybe I would wait. However if I was in a situation where I could work from home, I had less time to complete my family (especially if I wanted more than one more) and I already had children and didn't want a big age gap (my own kids are less than two years apart), those things would push me to try to conceive sooner rather than later.
After all, we hope this is going to be over soon. We hope we will be vaccinated by the summer and then it'll be more or less done, but last spring Boris was telling us it'd be over by Christmas so who really knows? You might not choose to put your life on hold for that.

Wannabangbang - thousands of people die every day, Covid aside. There is nothing more certain than death in this life.

I don’t understand why the vaccine affects your trying to conceive. I have a friend who is having IVF next month who was vaccinated a couple of weeks ago (healthcare worker). I had it (the vaccine) at 16 wks pregnant.

Nobody has a crystal ball but I don’t think the country is going to be back to normal this summer and if you want to get pregnant I would just get on with it!

@Moo678 I thought the advice was not to have it if you were pregnant or trying to get pregnant? I'm assuming you're in a covid facing role?

@Hollywhiskey thank you, that's made me feel a lot better (as my mind was pretty made up anyway haha)