Does having the flu jab while pregnant protect your baby from swine flu once it is born

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i.e does the vaccine pass from the mother to the baby and protect the baby once it is born?

Hi DF

I was told by the nurse who did me this week that yes, antibodies will pass to the baby, who relies on its mother's antibodies for the first two or three months. She was a bit hazier on whether vaccines the mother had been given would be passed on in breastmilk too, but in any case, it seems that if you've been vaccinated against something and therefore have antibodies, you will pass them onto the baby.

I wouldn't have thought it would offer protection for the baby in the long term. People normally have jabs for various things even if their parents were vaccinated against them.

(I'm not an expert though!)