Due 2nd dose of Pfizer but now pregnant

[letsmakethishappen]

Would you have it? I am very conflicted.

I would follow medical advice. What does your gp recommend?

My pregnant colleagues both went ahead with second doses yesterday of AZ. Their doctors told them to go ahead, but you should ask yours.

@letsmakethishappen

Yes as I am sure they are in the USA

Yes I would.

I wouldn't. My thinking is based on the fact after fordt dose gives a good immunity anyway I don't feel it's been tested on pregnant woman enough.

Well of course there’s no data on pregnant women if they’re not having the vaccine because they’re worried about lack of data.

I think the general advice is to wait until you're past 12 weeks, but ask your GP/ consultant in case this has changed. (I'm 39 weeks pregnant and had both pfizer vaccines whilst in the second trimester).

@Hyacinth88 exactly my thought!! Am only 6 weeks pregnant and it’s a very crucial time for baby development. I am terrified of having it . On the other, I am a health care worker and I’ve had Covid before. If I get it again in winter.. it could be fatal as very high risk due to pregnancy . Grrr 😡 I wish this thing didn’t exist.

There's plenty of data on the safety of having it in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters, but not much in the first (mainly because those women haven't given birth yet...so that data will come soon).

I would probably wait until I was past the 12 week point and then have it.

If you already had covid and the vaccine then you may already have very high immunity and it be worth waiting. Can you get an antibody test done to check now and towards the end of your second trimester?
(I'm very pro vaccination but I'd only do it in second trimester if high transmission risk, or wait until 8 weeks after birth, because pregnancy is such a delicate time.)

Hi OP please don't listen to opinions on the internet. Watch the recording from Pregnant then Screwed webinar two weeks ago hosted by Stella Creasy MP, with a panel of experts from the RCOG giving advice following the data from the US and Europe on vaccinated pregnant women, then make your decision.

I am also in this position. Had the first dose whilst TTC, now I'm due my second dose and I'm 5 weeks pregnant. I'm going to speak to my GP (as soon as I can get an appointment - hens' teeth and all that) but at the moment I think I would be more comfortable waiting until I'm 12 weeks +, if I'm lucky enough to make it that far.

I think I will wait till birth ( if all goes well). Thanks for all replies xxx

[quote letsmakethishappen]@Hyacinth88 exactly my thought!! Am only 6 weeks pregnant and it’s a very crucial time for baby development. I am terrified of having it . On the other, I am a health care worker and I’ve had Covid before. If I get it again in winter.. it could be fatal as very high risk due to pregnancy . Grrr 😡 I wish this thing didn’t exist.[/quote]
Unless you have underlying conditions, you aren’t automatically high risk because you’re pregnant

There is no reason to think catching it would be fatal for you now, when you were ok before

I don’t have an answer for you but congratulations and I hope the conspiracy theorists banging on about the vaccines causing infertility see this thread!

@GappyValley Actually, that’s not true. Pregnancy makes you and baby vulnerable to Covid, regardless of underlying health conditions.

Yes pregnancy makes you higher risk from covid.

You (and other pregnant people) should follow your doctors advice not strangers off the internet who have no medicial knowledge at all

It increases your risk

It does not make you very high risk, as OP said

From the NHS website:

“ If you’re pregnant your chance of getting COVID-19 is not higher than anyone else and it’s very unlikely you’ll get seriously ill with it.

Pregnant women are in the moderate risk group as a precaution. This is because you can sometimes be more at risk from viruses like flu if you're pregnant.

It's not clear if this happens with COVID-19. But because it's a new virus, it's safer to include pregnant women in the moderate risk group.”

@GappyValley That is outdated. Absolutely everything that has been looked at since shows pregnancy increases the risk of severe Covid.

That’s not to say all pregnant women are going to suffer with severe covid, but it’s a risk I certainly wouldn’t take going into pregnancy,

Yes it is very unlikely you will be ill with it but you are still higher risk than if you weren’t pregnant. Other countries gave the vaccine to pregnant women as a priority in the earliest groups.

i think they have said before that having had COVID grants equivalent immunity to 1 dose of vaccine...so if i'd previously had COVID then had 1 dose of Pfizer I would feel in a MUCH better position than someone who had had neither. As more people present with side effects after the second Pfizer jab than the first this would also influence my decision(perhaps I would think the opposite with AZ). I think deciding on vacinnation during pregnancy is a very personal thing... I am very pro-vaccine but had my last child during the swine flu epidemic and couldn't bring myself to accept the jab that was offered at this time due a previous miscarriage ,even though I understood the risks to me and the baby of catching swine flu when pregnant,so I appreciate your dilemma and I hope people understand that it is not always black and white when it's your body and your baby.

Oh, I should probably add that a study in the US looked at 90,000 pregnant women who received the Pfizer vaccine and there were zero safety concerns raised.

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/

I tried to make a phone appointment with my GP to discuss this - They answered my 199th attempt (honestly, that's what it says in my recent calls list!) and said try again tomorrow or for a non urgent appointment the first available is 3rd June My first midwife appointment is before then so it looks like I'll either have to hang on the phone again every morning, or just wait to speak to the midwife, by which point I'll be 9+3.

OP one of the studies showed that having the Covid vaccine in the third trimester can give your baby immunity against Covid.