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?

@Caffeinatedmonstergirl ah ok I thought you were pregnant I didn’t realise you were one of those who fell for the vaccine will cause infertility nonsense - originally started as a conspiracy theory that the vaccine was a ploy to cause mass sterilisation 😂

@huuuuunnnndderrricks

I think there is a big difference between having the jab at the end of a pregnancy and at the beginning on a developing foetus . My son had a gentic condition which happened when the egg splits in early pregnancy . No one knows why , just one of those things but I def wouldn't have the vaccine whilst pregnant and I've had both of mine so I'm not anti per se .

Yes I think that's a sensible compromise, I could have had vaccine through work when I was about 6 weeks but declined as was WFH, not CEV, and was worried about vaccine reaction in me (temperature etc) plus it wasn't recommended anyway then. Got called to have it with my age group when I was about 17 weeks and felt relieved, when I'd expected to feel more conflicted. Guidance had changed and seemed best time to do it, I've had to delay my whooping cough jab a couple of weeks as a result, but I know that that vaccine is still effective when taken later on so I'm not worried about that, it will just have to slot between the two covid doses.

@Sadsiblingatsea

Why would anyone risk it?

What, being in a coma for the first three months of your prematurely delivered baby's life, having to learn to speak, sit up and hold your baby for the first time since the day he was born, watching other people take care of him because you don't have the muscle strength to hold him safely, have to have your head shaved because of the state of your hair after three months flat out?

You're right, why would anyone risk that?

I am 17 weeks pregnant. I decided quite early on (pre guidelines changing) that I would ask as the hospital if I could be recommended for the vaccine. I did speak with a couple of doctors (friends / family rather than booking an appt with the GP) before making my decision, but mainly to help me make sense of what I'd been reading in case I'd misinterpreted it. One doctor friend mentioned that at their hospital they had seen an increase of stillbirths when the mum caught Covid in the third trimester, but they were waiting for data on it. Obviously they have now been proven to be correct. I decided that I'd rather not have the vaccine in my first trimester because that seemed most sensible, but that given my exposure risk for Covid being in work every day, young DC in childcare with no social distancing, and underlying health problem, the risks of Covid seemed much higher than the vaccine.

Once I had been called up I rang my GP. They told me there was a note already on my file that I had to have the Pfizer. They booked me in, I turned up, the man giving me the injection asked me if I was pregnant. I said yes, he mentioned that it wasn't tested on pregnant women but that 100,000+ pregnant women have had the vaccine, was I ok to proceed, and he jabbed me in the arm.

I did not need to consult a GP / midwife beforehand, no medical professionals gave me horror stories, it was all very straightforward.

Afterwards I had a sore arm and a headache but was otherwise fine.

Just a quick update I decided to get the vaccine and I'm booked in Thursday. Enter weighing everything up I think it's the best thing for me to do. If I fall pregnant I will postpone my second jab thanks for the comments

My friend had the vaccine whilst TTC and her scans are looking fine so far (14 weeks) I personally wouldn't have it whilst TTC but appreciate we're all different

@cherrybonbons I thought I'd made my mind up now you're pulling me back the other way lol. May I ask why?

@NeverDropYourMoonCup Less of the hysteria please.
Most people who contract Covid do not end up in a coma.
No pregnant woman, or anybody else, should be pressurised into having an untested vaccine - especially when there are so many reported side-effects.

[quote Sadsiblingatsea]@NeverDropYourMoonCup Less of the hysteria please.
Most people who contract Covid do not end up in a coma.
No pregnant woman, or anybody else, should be pressurised into having an untested vaccine - especially when there are so many reported side-effects.[/quote]
ODFOD.

None of the reported side effects that sound even vaguely within the realms of science are as bad as being on Oxygen in A&E, wondering whether a) you're going to survive because your immune system, being depressed as a direct result of being pregnant, has fuck all defence about the feeling that you're being crushed to death as you get more and more lightheaded and b) whether your baby is going to survive.

I know what that feels like. No chance for a little common or garden hysteria at the point at which you can feel darkness creeping into your peripheral vision and it's like you're falling backwards in the air.

No vaccination against what I had at the time (that inconsequential little illness in children, Chickenpox). And I wouldn't wish either the feeling or the fear on anybody. Except maybe the people so invested in convincing women not to protect themselves and their future, as yet unconceived in this case, or later, not yet born babies.

I work with a virologist in a lab (veterinary industry) who has had both of her jabs whilst pregnant (expecting in July). I will be going ahead with my 2nd Pfizer in a few weeks time (had my first one just after I’d conceived but I didn’t know I was pregnant at that point). Anecdotally I know one lady who had the vaccine whilst pregnant and she has since given birth to a very healthy beautiful little boy. It is not a live vaccine, it has been developed by the world’s leading scientists in this field, it may seem rushed but needs must when faced with a global pandemic, the methods used to create the jab are tried and tested and safe. Throughout childhood and adulthood (and pregnancy!) we are vaccinated for a range of diseases and illnesses but don’t think twice. This vaccine is only being discussed so thoroughly as it’s new and is being played out on a world stage (nobody questions a flu jab despite the fact these are adapted every year, people just have them.) Medicine has come on leaps and bounds since the days of thalidomide. I thoroughly believe if there was the slightest doubt that this vaccine would cause defects in foetuses or babies, major health organisations would not be recommending that hundreds of thousands of woman take it. I know it’s a tough decision but I think people need to do some proper reading up on vaccine development, virology, immunology, etc (don’t look at forums look at scientific studies and real data). There is a real hysteria around this where I don’t think there needs to be. The alternative (contracting covid whilst pregnant) is however well documented and a real risk, with provable links made to premature birth and still birth.

@Almondcroissant25 thank you so much your post has really helped. I feel kore confident than ever now to get my vaccine a Thursday.

I've just had my first Pfizer this evening and I'm 38 weeks pregnant.

I've done my research and have decided, for a number of reasons, to go ahead with the vaccine. Today was my earliest opportunity - waited to be called up by age bracket.

I'm pleased I've managed to get one dose in before I have to go into hospital to have my baby and I'd have had it ages ago he I been able to, especially with the guidance about covid in the third tri.

All you can do is read what you can, listen to others and then make a decision you're happy with

My friend got hers in the US maybe in her 8th month of pregnancy. She's a nurse and was desperate to have it. Her baby was fine. I don't know what vaccine she took though.

I'm not sure I'd get Astra Zeneca as the (even small) blood clot risk would really give me anxiety, although I'm not sure if the others have that (admittedly tiny) risk too. But only because I have health anxiety and would drive myself a bit crazy about it.

OP I had the Pfizer at 34 weeks pregnant (under 30) and have a lovely, healthy 3 week old

@2gd2btrue

OP I had the Pfizer at 34 weeks pregnant (under 30) and have a lovely, healthy 3 week old

Thank you so much this is helpful for me

I'm in the same situation as you, but I got my vaccine.

Will you have the flu vaccine and the whooping cough vaccine whilst pregnant?
They are recommended for pregnant women. The flu vaccine changes every year. The whooping cough vaccine has only been given to pregnant women routinely for the last 7 years, are you worried that there might be some long term effects that will show up in current 6 year olds in a few more years?

It's highly highly unlikely. Vaccines don't work like that.

Whereas the risk from covid in the third trimester is real, and could actually leave long term effects on you or your baby.

@pigeonpocket completely agree I'm booked in to get it tomorrow

@Namechangeme1 glad to hear it, I hope it goes well and you don't have any side effects.