If you were pregnant with no underlying health conditions would you get the vaccine?

[mrssunshinexxx]

Please no one bite my head off I feel so so conflicted like I can't do right for doing wrong. I'm 6 months pregnant with a 1 year old. Not overweight, no underlying issues. I am just so unsure of what to do I will admit I am bad for following social media of real people that are having terrifying side affects from the vaccine but equally I know the effects of covid in third trimester can be fatal same as the vaccine in a small percentage.
Please please no one have a go at me I am so stressed I just want to do the right thing for my babies.
Yes or no?

Pregnant and have had both doses.

Yes. You say you don't know about the long term effects of the vaccine in an unborn baby. You do know something about the effects of covid in an unborn baby though.

This.

[quote mrssunshinexxx]@MeadowHay may I ask why your risk to catch it is tiny ? Are you shielding ?bx[/quote]
Ah no, my risk to catch it is pretty decent probably - my risk of complications if I catch it is tiny. As I'm under 30 with no comorbidities. Obviously being pregnant and in the third trimester does seem to increase the risk, but the absolute risk remains tiny, so it's not a concern for me.

@Superfoodie123 please would you mind expanding? X

Yes. Covid is more dangerous for you and the baby. The baby will need your antibodies

Yes. I had my first jab at 7ish weeks pregnant. Unfortunately I went on to have a MC which was completely unrelated. But I wouldn't hesitate to be vaccinated whilst again.

Covid can cause unborn babies to die. It's not a risk I'd be willing to take.

@everydaysablessing had the whooping cough won't be getting the flu one , it's not a point of being against all vaccines im just not comfortable having a vaccine that hasn't finished its trials I don't care if 1 million pregnant woman have had it it just doesn't sit right with some people to have it, once the testing has finished in a few years think I'd feel more comfortable even then though I don't think I'd get it as for me personally covid hasn't made me seriously ill. Same as the flu jab I don't get the flu jab each year because I'm just not vulnerable plus they do just have a guess which flu they think is going around and 80percent of the time they are wrong so the flu jab in my opinion is basically mostly pointless.

Still birth risk is increased if you catch it but it's still lower than stillbirth risk from doing ivf .
Here's a good link to read all the relevant info the third trimester does have slightly more risks to getting seriously ill but it's still really low I think a lot of people think everyone in the third trimester will die if they catch it when it's just not the case . A lot of articles throw figures like 4 times more death etc out there when number might jump from 1 out of 1000 to 4 out of 1000 . Just have a good read , personally I don't actually think it will harm the baby but I'm just not willing to take the risk when I've had covid before and during pregnancy and it's been not much more than a cough and this time a cold .

www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/guidelines/coronavirus-pregnancy/covid-19-virus-infection-and-pregnancy/

@everydaysablessing whooping cough vaccine has been around for 70+ years and flu vaccine for 75+ years so I think that's abit of a silly argument against a vaccine that everyone can see has been rushed like holy hell.

I think that's abit of a silly argument against a vaccine that everyone can see has been rushed like holy hell.

Oh.
It’s one of these threads.

Thank you @queenie273646 will read now

@PurpleDaisies honestly please leave the thread if you are just hear to rile people that are already stressed , upset and worried and want to do the right thing to keep their babies safe.

Iitially refused vaccine but changed my mind and got it at 24 weeks. Not had 2nd dose yet. My reasons for getting it were:
1.Increased number of cases and increased spread of Delta variant
2.More things opening up but less restrictions made me feel very vulnerable
3.Have an 18mo who loves being out and about. Would be very hard to isolate/shield for rest of pregnancy and feel he has missed out on so much already

1. 3rd trimester covid risks
2. Fear of long covid
3. I'm already exhausted by the end of most days so adding any illness on top of that would be tough.

Its a tough decision though and I got very little guidance from midwife. I'm not sure there is a definite right or wrong answer, I think it's for each person to do what they feel comfortable with.

Thanks @Raggeo that's helpful I feel the same about my 1year okd missing out on so much and I don't want to have to shield again but equally she isn't going to have the vaccine so even if I do the risk Is still there for her to catch it x

[quote mrssunshinexxx]@PurpleDaisies honestly please leave the thread if you are just hear to rile people that are already stressed , upset and worried and want to do the right thing to keep their babies safe.[/quote]
I didn’t realise this was a general vaccine safety thread vs vaccine safely in pregnancy.

It’s surprising how many times these threads turn out to be general anti vax.

The vaccine has not been unsafely rushed through. Funding and study recruitment that usually takes ages was fast tracked. Not the actual science.

That’s my last post herez

Yes and I have - both jabs by 17 weeks. All fine so far.

Well thank god for that 👋 @PurpleDaisies

It's also worth adding that the RCOG are now actively recommending the vaccine in pregnant women, which they wouldn't do unless they were truly certain. And they certainly are more intelligent and knowledgable about reproductive health and babies than people on social media and online forums making baseless fearmongering claims about studies and processes that they don't fully understand.

I know it's so easy to be swayed by the anti vax lot when you're anxious already, but I really recommend sitting down and looking at the intelligence and credentials of the people giving advice.

I have just had my second jab at 22 weeks pregnant. Think I was about 14 weeks when I had the first jab.
I was unsure at first as we don't know the affects on the unborn baby, but after doing some research and listening to a show on the radio 2 ( can't remember who) it seemed the most sensible choice to have it. They said that the vaccine doesn't cross the placenta so it won't affect the baby at all
Good luck with whatever you decide x

The vaccine has not been unsafely rushed through. Funding and study recruitment that usually takes ages was fast tracked. Not the actual science.

This.

@minatrina I know what you mean to a point but some of these people are truly showing themselves in hosptial with whole body tremors, legs buckling underneath them confirmed by neurologists as side affect from vaccine I also read the reports on the yellow card page. Maybe I should just stop and get the bloody thing I so hope it won't make me poorly.

@Cominghome1230 this is another thing I should of asked in my OP my consultant said yesterday I can have both doses within 3 or 4 weeks of each other I can't honestly remember but most people seem to of had 8 or 12 weeks ? Isit safe to have them so soon of each other

Op I’m not in your shoes at all but in my second pregnancy I caught pneumonia so bad I had to be hospitalised for 5 days and was on very close watch for ages after. Pneumonia in late pregnancy nearly had me and my beautiful babygirl. I would seriously, seriously consider it. I understand your nerves though.

@minatrina

It's also worth adding that the RCOG are now actively recommending the vaccine in pregnant women, which they wouldn't do unless they were truly certain. And they certainly are more intelligent and knowledgable about reproductive health and babies than people on social media and online forums making baseless fearmongering claims about studies and processes that they don't fully understand.

I know it's so easy to be swayed by the anti vax lot when you're anxious already, but I really recommend sitting down and looking at the intelligence and credentials of the people giving advice.

Whilst I agree with this, all public bodies give risk benefit advice on vaccines based on a general view of the risk to a huge group of the population, here being pregnant women. This includes pregnant women who are obese, over 40 and and have significant comorbidities as well as pregnant women who are 18, a healthy weight and have none. But the actual assessment of risk is obviously different for each individual but RCOG or any body aren't going to give a risk assessment plan for each individual, they do it on a generalized basis. Which is fine and understandable but risk wise there is clearly a much stronger argument for vaccination in certain groups of pregnant women than others. The younger you are, the lack of comorbidities etc drastically alters your risk profile.

Also, it's absolutely not the case that all pregnant women who are declining the covid vaccine are 'anti-vax' in general. I always get the flu vaccine every year anyway and I will be getting whooping cough vax too (and did last time). But it's disingenuous and helps persuade nobody for people to act like there is a not a big difference between the available safety data of any of the new covid vaccines compared to these two for example.

I think the original plan was 3-4 weeks between jabs when they were initially introduced, then I remember there being uproar when the gap was extended to 12 weeks. I think the trials were done with 3 weeks between jabs and the efficacy judged from there. From memory.

Op it sounds like you are being offered Pfizer, that can be given with much closer intervals.

I'm 5 weeks and won't be having mine until at least second trimester. I don't think there's been many babies born with a mother vaccinated first trimester so no real life data. There have been second and third trimester births so I'd try and get data on that and see.