To ask if anyone had the vaccine in pregnancy and has now given birth to a healthy baby?

[Namechangeme1]

I haven't met anyone IRL that had vaccine whilst TTC or pregnant that has now given birth and it's making me really worried to get the vaccine.

Thalidomide scandal makes me more worried as does the conflicting advice it there - and I'm just extremely worried about this.

I'm booked in This week for my vaccine and also TTC

Has anyone had the vaccine and a safe delivery?

@Breakfastofmilk

You can't say that the mother getting COVID while pregnant is won't have long term effects on the baby so unless you're able to 100% quarantine at home for the entire pregnancy you need to choose between risk from the vaccine, risk from COVID or waiting to TTC until you feel safer.

Those are your choices, there is no secret magic option that guarantees your baby will never face any harm or illness ever in their life.

Thalidomide happened 60 years ago. At the time antibiotics were a recent discovery and oral contraceptives were only just becoming available. A massive amount had changed in medicine and the way trials are carried out since then, partly because of the lessons learned from thalidomide.

I don't think any of us expect a secret, magic option that protects our children forever although of course that would be nice! But there is a vast difference between your born child being exposed to all the usual illnesses that millions of people have had before them, and injecting something into your body when they are in utero which few humans alive (and certainly no one older than 1) has had done to them. (I am pro vaccination generally and as I've said I will be trying to get my jab during a period while TTC)

Pregnant women are constantly told we have to be careful about what we eat, drink, do. You can't generally take any medicine at all other than paracetamol while pregnant. It's not surprising that people then question having this relatively new vaccine injected into them - one which may have gone through all the necessary hoops but with a huge amount of public pressure to succeed on everyone's mind.

Not yet given birth but 3rd trimester and having weekly scans, baby is perfectly fine and growing well. I've had 2 doses of Pfizer

Personally I’d take the jab given the increased risks of Covid and pregnancy. As others have linked plenty of women in the US have had the jab with no issues.

I had my first dose of AZ around the time I conceived. Which was utter dumb luck as we'd been trying for a year so wasn't really expecting it to happen! Unfortunately I miscarried at 10 weeks. Just had my second dose of AZ yesterday and are planning to start TTC again as soon as we can.

Do I think my miscarriage was related to the vaccine? No, not really. But there is a small part of me that has been wondering and the lovely midwifes at my EPU suggested I report it as a vaccine complication on yellow card so I have done. But I would absolutely do the same again even whilst TTC. The risks of covid were higher for me, and I'm an unpaid carer for my DS so he trumped any other thoughts I might have had about not getting the vaccine.

Pfizer and moderna seem the way to go for pregnant women, and I do wish that had been known at the time I got my first dose, but ultimately the choice was mine and all you can do is make the choice that feels right for you.

I am 36 weeks pregnant and have mine booked next week, I am so overwhelmingly relieved that I will be having it in time to offer myself and baby some protection prior to going into hospital. The known risk of catching covid in the next couple of weeks has my anxiety going through the roof right now, this is the most dangerous time and any protection offered will be valuable.

Just think- the worlds foremost virologists have worked on nothing but these vaccines since the start of this, they are likely to be among the safest vaccines ever produced in world history.

I’m 16 weeks and had mine at 15+6 1st dose, NW UK, I was offered Pfizer also due to age (34)

When I got there I was asked if pregnant, said yes. Asked how many weeks, adv above and was told they are recommending anyone over 13 weeks have the vaccine but not in the first trimester.

It was explained to me as the risks of contracting Covid in third trimester are significantly high risk for mother and baby. I also assume they are not offering in first trimester due to higher miscarriage rates and the possible association of being linked to the vaccine.

I had mine, no side effects/symptoms other than a sore arm!

Getting mine next week, will be 13 weeks. Thalidomide was 60 years ago and medical science has moved on a lot. We know how vaccines work, RCOG and NHS recommend we get it and I'm not isolating for the next 6 months. Risks of covid in 3rd trimester are known and can be serious. 90,000 pregnant women in USA have had it and no recorded issues. That's what I've considered and I feel confident going ahead, can't speak for others and you've got to make your choice but that's where I am with it.

I do her Thalidomide was 6@ years ago but we still make mistakes in 2021! We are not perfect as humans never making errors.

I think I possibly might get the first dose which would be before I'm pregnant as my next TWW doesn't start for another two weeks and I'm booked in this week for the jab and then at least there's some protection. If I fall pregnant I'll leave the second one

I also don't want any risk of increased miscarriages as I've had one before and it was something I would hopefully want to avoid at all costs

Pfizer are doing a trial monitoring pregnant women and their babies after birth for 6 months, the preliminary results are due in June.
I'm pregnant now and can't bring myself to have the jab. As far as I'm concerned I would be part of a trial if I took it before the research is done and I'm not prepared to do that.

I’m having mine this week. 3rd trimester.

There’s no links to any vaccines ever causing issues with behaviour/development in the future except the Wakefield paper which was disproved multiple times over.

mRNA vaccines although relatively new, were used for Ebola and given in pregnancy in this context to my understanding.

The way I’ve been told it is that you can perceive risks on both sides. There’s the known risk of covid in pregnancy (stillbirth, premature birth, miscarriage, risk to the mother) versus a hypothetical and unproven risk of vaccination (see the studies indicating no adverse antenatal or neonatal outcomes).

As humans we tend to be happier to accept the risk of not doing something versus the risk of doing something. The passivity of “not accepting” is seen as less “our fault” than making an active choice.

There are a lot of studies now suggesting that the vaccine doesn’t cross the placenta due to how quickly our bodies process it. The antibodies do, and confer protection to baby.

Also, thalidomide revolutionised how drugs were tested and licensed. It’s also a completely different type of drug working in a different way.

@Magenta82

Pfizer are doing a trial monitoring pregnant women and their babies after birth for 6 months, the preliminary results are due in June. I'm pregnant now and can't bring myself to have the jab. As far as I'm concerned I would be part of a trial if I took it before the research is done and I'm not prepared to do that.

But you're happy to risk getting COVID and the known short term, serious risks to you and your unborn baby, the known long term effects (I know people a year on who aren't fully recovered) and the long term effects we still don't know about on you and your baby?

Or you're going to isolate the entire 9 months?

Those are the only options, likely tiny risk of vaccine, unknown but possible high risk of covid or total isolation.

Or I guess move to New Zealand. If you're already in New Zealand or somewhere else with really great control over transmission then fair enough but the UK is proven multiple times that we cannot or will not get it under control.

@NamechangeTTC

I’m having mine this week. 3rd trimester.

There’s no links to any vaccines ever causing issues with behaviour/development in the future except the Wakefield paper which was disproved multiple times over.

mRNA vaccines although relatively new, were used for Ebola and given in pregnancy in this context to my understanding.

The way I’ve been told it is that you can perceive risks on both sides. There’s the known risk of covid in pregnancy (stillbirth, premature birth, miscarriage, risk to the mother) versus a hypothetical and unproven risk of vaccination (see the studies indicating no adverse antenatal or neonatal outcomes).

As humans we tend to be happier to accept the risk of not doing something versus the risk of doing something. The passivity of “not accepting” is seen as less “our fault” than making an active choice.

There are a lot of studies now suggesting that the vaccine doesn’t cross the placenta due to how quickly our bodies process it. The antibodies do, and confer protection to baby.

Also, thalidomide revolutionised how drugs were tested and licensed. It’s also a completely different type of drug working in a different way.

This is a very wise and helpful post.

@Namechangeme1 I don’t understand why you’re actually creating problems for yourself. You’re not pregnant. You said you did a test and you’re negative so use protection until you get your vaccine, start trying again. What’s the issue?

@Magenta82 baby you’re preparing to risk a stillbirth?
www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/health/obstetricians-call-for-pregnant-women-to-be-vaccinated-as-stillbirths-linked-to-covid-1.4545081%3fmode=amp

Doesn’t make much sense to me..

[quote ForeverAintEnough12]@Namechangeme1 I don’t understand why you’re actually creating problems for yourself. You’re not pregnant. You said you did a test and you’re negative so use protection until you get your vaccine, start trying again. What’s the issue?[/quote]
I don't have time to waste in postponing TTC. So if I get the vaccine I will also be TTC and could fall pregnant around the same time.

@Namechangeme1 so you are worried about affecting your future baby by getting the vaccine but not so worried that you would postpone ttc by one month to ensure your not pregnant while getting vaccine....

I have. I had my first dose when I was 32 weeks pregnant (I had AZ) and my DD was born just over 3 weeks ago. I get my second dose today. She's fine, as far as I know she will have some immunity because I was vaccinated when I was pregnant

Bearing in mind there are very low infection rates in the UK now and the hotspots are in areas nowhere near me it is getting less and less likely I will be exposed to covid.

The low risk of getting it, together with the low risk of complications scare me less than the unknown risk of experimenting on my unborn child.

But they can scan now , they couldn't when thalidomide was given .. also it affected development in the early weeks and is really nothing like the vaccine .. can't you just wait until you have had the baby?

@huuuuunnnndderrricks I'm not pregnant yet I'm TTC but worried I fall pregnant the time of vaccination and in very early stages when cells are forming it just seems like a very delicate time

I'm perhaps being irrational but can't help it!

I would have it ASAP and hold if ttc.. it is a very delicate time and the foetus can be affected by all sorts of outside factors . I wouldn't risk it to be honest and I have a child with sn with no cause or diagnosis so it couldn't be picked up in pregnancy .

@Magenta82

Bearing in mind there are very low infection rates in the UK now and the hotspots are in areas nowhere near me it is getting less and less likely I will be exposed to covid.

The low risk of getting it, together with the low risk of complications scare me less than the unknown risk of experimenting on my unborn child.

So you’d prefer to take known risks to your baby up to and including stillbirth if you get covid which you could get at any time in your pregnancy over imagined risks of vaccine to your unborn child when a vaccine would protect your baby from all the known risks. Ok then