Vaccines and pregnancy/newborn babies

[MaggieW]

My DS (15 months) is soon to start having his single vaccines...I'll be around 23 weeks pregnant when he has the measles jab and then the new baby will be around 8 weeks old when he's due to have the Mumps vaccine. The Rubella will follow 6 months later. I've been given conflicting advice about whether there's risk to my unborn baby, or the baby when it is born. Can anyone advise please?

Have you had measles/mumps or rubella? If you've had them naturally then you will be immune and will pass that immunity onto your baby (which usually lasts about 12 monthish for childhood illnesses). So nothing to worry about on all scores. If you've been vaccinated the situation is less clear. (You probably had a rubella check at the beginning of pregnancy so I wouldn't worry about that if you had antibodies). The risk if you're not immune will be small, but exist.