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?

@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.

How can they know what the risks are? I'm talking about first trimester vaccines where there are hardly any babies born yet. No way of knowing if it has impacted development. Wouldn't be the first time something has been declared safe for pregnant women only to find out later it's not. Scientists can't even agree if alcohol is safe or not.

[quote mrssunshinexxx]@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.[/quote]
I'm not familiar with the type of side effects you're talking about, but I'm absolutely positive that if they were confirmed risks we'd hear about it. Be careful with online accounts of side effects as remember 1. People lie 2. It could be an absolute coincidence 3. You can get severe reactions to just about any medicine or vaccine, but it would be extremely rare and not indicative of something anyone should worry about.

As for the yellow card stuff, that data is not really ideal for laypeople like you and me to be looking at. It's just a list of reported things that just so happened to occur after the vaccine was administered. They don't provide context, so for example they can say that 100 women experienced miscarriage after the vaccine, but 100 out of how many? They don't release that data to the public. Miscarriage is unfortunately really common, and it would be weird if no one at all was having a miscarriage after the vaccine wouldn't it? Just because it happened after the vaccine doesn't mean it was caused by it.

As I understand it, MHRA AND JCVI are the only ones who have access to the full data to judge the context of the yellow card reports. That's how they make their decisions, which is why they can make statements that the vaccine does not cause adverse events in pregnancy - because they can see the data showing that these miscarriages are actually happening at the normal rate you'd expect.

That turned into a ramble and sorry if it makes no sense, I'm overheating with this weather right now 🤣

@MeadowHay I really wasn't trying to imply that all vaccine hesitant people are anti vax. I was talking about the people who deliberately make wild claims online, which leads to vaccine hesitancy in pregnant women - like myself! I was very hesitant too which is why I understand the damage these people cause.

through mine and my partners job I now know of 3 pregnant women in early 30s who have died whilst pregnant from catching covid in the last 9 months. that seems incredibly high numbers to me out of just those people we know (although not close friends) . so I'd absolutely get it without hesitation.

Wow @Thisisthemonth that's shocking and so so heartbreaking

Thanks for the replies to my question, don't want to derail the thread from Op's original question.

Just interesting that for flu & whooping cough we don't know manufacturer and each of the side effects in as much detail as we do for covid, same with travel and childhood vaccinations.

It's a personal decision and I respect everyone's choice, taking on board their circumstances and risk comfort levels.

I’d take the vaccine. I’m double jabbed and have Covid now and feel really awful. I would put my faith in the scientists over what is posted on social media etc.

Yes I’ve had my first vaccine at 12 weeks and getting second vaccine tomorrow at 20 weeks. I wouldn’t judge someone for choosing not to though as it’s a very difficult decision and I was unsure myself.

Worth considering though is that even though you have no underlying health conditions being pregnant itself places you at a higher risk due to your bump compressing your lungs in the third trimester. There are also now known risks of stillbirth to baby if mum has covid when she goes into labour (this sold it for me).

This is part of my worry though @Darbs76 putting something in my body when it isn't going to do what it's supposed t do. Over 40% of people with covid currently in ICU have been double jabbed so it's abit like what's the point ?! X

I’ve been so conflicted too I’m 33 weeks and have had different advice from different professionals. I also caught covid 2 weeks ago it’s been absolutely awful but I’m hopefully coming out the other side now. I will be having the vaccine as soon as baby is here.

Glad you are on the mend @2021mumma were you hospitalised?

36 weeks and I've had my first jab.
The risk for 3rd trimester pregnant women is just too high for me to take my chances especially with the new variant rampant.

A friend also in her 3rd trimester was hit really badly with COVID, she had to have her baby prematurely and was put in an induced coma for over 2 months. She's finally awake and has met her little baby boy 🥺

That scared the shit out of me and one of the reasons that spurred me to get the jab.

Thanks both @HauteGirlSummer @Mif4 this is what's so hard I feel like people are just split right down the middle. Before I spoke to my consultant on tues I was absolutely adamant I wouldn't have it. If I wasn't pregnant I wouldn't be getting it I know that for sure

@mrssunshinexxx no thank goodness was very worried about my breathing doctors gave me an oxygen monitor and advised if dropped below a certain level to go straight to hospital. It’s all so worrying. Now I’ve had covid I have been told I can’t have jab for a month. I might pay and get tested for antibodies to know I’m safe for a while.

I used to be a midwife. I would have it after 24 weeks.

@Mif4

No way in hell. There is no way of knowing. You can be the experiment or you can wait. I have a high bmi, asthma, partner is a care worker, have been out and about the whole pandemic, no masks, no hand sanitizer (exempt, obviously wash hands with soap and water as per usual) and haven't even had a cold this whole time. My son is 8 weeks. Listen to your gut. It's your body and your baby.

I say this with kindness and absolutely no edge, but you realise that you are part of "the experiment" too?

You are just part of the control group.

As is your right obviously, but you are part of this whole shit show whether you choose to be or not.

This video helped me in my decision to have it - m.facebook.com/watch/live/?extid=SEO----&v=2006145259541323&ref=watch_permalink&_rdr. It’s Stella Creasy MP video in which she discusses the vaccine with a number of professionals who have looked at the data. I had my first at 12 weeks, my scan yesterday everything was fine and I’m on my way to my second now.

spookycookies the study which looked at 90,000 pregnant people and the safety included women all throughout pregnancy. Women in the US were made vulnerable and given access to the vaccine in the first trimester. I’m in a group with women due at a similar time to me (all 21-26 weeks), the women in the US had their vaccines in the first trimester, anecdotally, none have suffered miscarriages and all their anatomy scans have been fine. Babies in that group obviously haven’t been born yet but there will be women who had their vaccines in the first trimester in December and having their babies now.

I felt conflicted about swine flu vaccine in 2009. In the end my friend worked in a hospital and the pregnant nurses and doctors she knew had it so that tipped the balance and I had it.

Glad you are feeling better @2021mumma

Can I ask why that particular gestation @DinosaurDiana

Thank you @InTheNightWeWillWish I will watch when baby naps

I would have it, yes. Apart from the risk to the mother (and my sister's colleague died of Covid while pregnant so I have seen that first-hand) there's also the risk of premature birth.

I had my first vaccine at 16 weeks, still awaiting my second :)

I'm 27 weeks pregnant and double jabbed as of nearly a week. If there was a way my partner and I could both fully isolate for the 3rd trimester, I might have waited until after baby is born, but that's not practical for us and the risk of catching it is too high, especially at the moment. The medical advice was divided and vague to start with, but as more vaccinated pregnant women have had babies, and more data gathers on pregnancies with covid, including healthy women, the whole medical profession is becoming a lot clearer in the pro vaccine message, which they wouldn’t do if there wasn't data to back that up - and which there wasn't say 6 months ago.

Thank you