Should partner get flu jab?

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Hi everyone, baby is due in Jan so I'm getting my flu jab in a couple of weeks. My husband is being offered a jab through work- is it necessary/useful, or would you not bother?

Thanks!

Take it - it's free from work and he would have to pay privately (unless he meets the criteria for NHS) and the flu can knock you out for a week or more so would lose time at work (I assume this is why they are providing it) and he would probably become a man-child if he did catch it so you would be looking after him.

It's a no brainer!

We're thinking of paying privately to get my DH jabbed. Only £12 in Boots. So yeah, if it's offered free, I'd go for it. No reason not to.

I think there's no reason not to get it if offered. The flu is miserable and the last thing you want around the time you are giving birth or with a new baby is man down with the flu. It will also protect baby to a degree, but baby will also get immunity for you.

I get a flu jab every year myself (I'm asthmatic), so given the flu is supposed to be especially nasty this year, I think there is no reason to turn it down.

I've had mine. DP paid £9 in Tesco for his as I don't want him to be ill whilst i'm heavily pregnant or with newborn.

You've all confirmed my thoughts on the matter :) Thanks!

I don't like the idea of vaccines, unless they are absolutely necessary, which for me flue is not. The only reason I vaccinated myself is because everyone pretty much said- well, you don't have to, but if you get sick and there is something wrong with the baby as the result, it's on you. But I will not be asking my partner to do it.