Chicken pox vaccine ?

[LH2016]

Evening, I'm eight weeks pregnant with baby number two. Should I get my 18 month old son vaccinated against chicken pox or is there minimal risk to me as I've had it. I think possibly twice! I was thinking of letting him get it and build up natural immunity - but saw a thread on a Facebook group about a pregnant mum getting her child vaccinated and I wonder if I should. Not clear from nhs website - it would not appear so. Has anyone?? Thanks

We did, chickenpox left me with lifelong scarring plus I got shingles in my 20s, which was miserable. Where we used to live (and in most developed countries) it's part of the regular vaccine schedule. There is some chance that the protection may wear off slightly once your children are adults - however the same goes with tetanus and many others, to me the hassle of having an extra booster is much smaller than scarring and shingles (not to mention other complications).

If you do book it, just have a chat with the nurse at the time about timing for your Meningitis B second booster, as I think you need 12 weeks between or something and need to have both by their second birthday.

My dds were absolutely fine, my eldest (who often gets pretty bad reactions to vaccinations) got a bit of a bump where the injection was and a low temperature, youngest sailed through and barely noticed.

Thank you so much that's really helpful!

Yes definitely. Meant to have DD vax'd against CP but left it too late tho luckily hers was extremely mild! If you can afford it do the men B too

Thank you - seems like def a good idea to do it