Vaccine and breastfeeding

[HepLaurenceLB]

I have been invited to get the CV vaccine. No idea why as I am 43 with no heath issues. I am currently breastfeeding my 18 month olds. The advice I can find suggest they don’t have a reason to think it is bad for Breastfeeding but there is no conclusive proof that it won’t make my babies ill. I am very torn.
Any suggestions/knowledge/advice welcome.

I’m breastfeeding and won’t have the vaccine until I stop feeding, no concrete research on the affects , short or long term. Same reason I wouldn’t inject my child directly, not enough data and l covid isn’t a big enough risk to them,

I had the vaccine 2wks ago. I'm breastfeeding my 4wk old baby. So very grateful to have the opportunity to be vaccinated and also to be able to pass some immunity to her.
I think the majority of non vaccinating is due to lack of understanding unfortunately.

I am really not against the vaccine at all. I have decided that I will probably stop breast feeding so that I can have it, I want it that badly!

My DS has had covid so I'm not worried about passing on antibodies. (But does the vaccine even work by injecting us with antibodies? I thought it worked a different way)

I just think about thalidomide and no one knew that would have any harm until it was too late.

Obviously I have no medical or scientific knowledge. This is just somewhere I feel I can share my worries

@MaryShelley1818

I had the vaccine 2wks ago. I'm breastfeeding my 4wk old baby. So very grateful to have the opportunity to be vaccinated and also to be able to pass some immunity to her. I think the majority of non vaccinating is due to lack of understanding unfortunately.

I’m an ex nurse with a BSc so no lack of understanding here!

@MaryShelley1818

I had the vaccine 2wks ago. I'm breastfeeding my 4wk old baby. So very grateful to have the opportunity to be vaccinated and also to be able to pass some immunity to her. I think the majority of non vaccinating is due to lack of understanding unfortunately.

Not due to lack of understanding rather due to a lack of studies and data

I had the vaccine in January. My breastfeeding daughter was 12 months. I'm a nurse, working with COVID patients and very vulnerable patients.

It's been deemed safe by the experts. Without the vaccine it was only a matter of time before I caught COVID. I also have a responsibility to everyone I'm in contact with

National breastfeeding network statement -" As with other vaccines there is no evidence that anything other than antibodies passes into breastmilk."

It’s interesting because pre covid not sure I would have taken a vaccine when breastfeeding...trying to think of any I would have been offered ...wouldn’t have taken a baby anywhere we would need one

www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/coronavirus-covid-19-pregnancy-and-womens-health/covid-19-vaccines-and-pregnancy/covid-19-vaccines-pregnancy-and-breastfeeding/

Breastfeeding women will now be offered vaccination if they are otherwise eligible, for example if they are in a clinically extremely vulnerable group or a frontline health or social care worker, including a carer in a residential home. Women should be advised that there is lack of safety data for these specific vaccinations in breastfeeding.

Very much for the mother to decide for herself I think.

Interesting article here, US focussed but has general application (although a small study). Suggesting that antibodies have been found in the milk of breastfeeding women following the vaccine and that vaccination whilst breastfeeding may therefore confer some protection onto the baby.

apple.news/A5eGemFJgQfyWYVyFFKOk8g

I can understand why people don’t, however there’s a difference between “this is dangerous” and “we don’t think it will be dangerous but can’t categorically say it isn’t”. I get that people wouldn’t want to feel guilty if something did happen, so I can understand it but I don’t fully understand why people are so fearful of this particular one.

I had mine, still feeding my 16 month old. No impact on either of us.