35 weeks and forgot to have my whopping cough vaccine

[Purpleshoes88]

...will it still be effective?

With my first dc I'm sure I had it at 30 weeks, following an appointment with my midwife at 28 weeks when she told me to book in for it.

This time around I haven't seen my midwife since 18 weeks as I've had numerous consultant appointments instead. So I'd completely forgot about getting it done tbh.

I booked it in on Friday for tomorrow, but I've just been reading online that I should have had it from 16 weeks onwards.

Is there any point in me still having it tomorrow?

www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/whooping-cough-vaccination-pregnant/

You can still have it up until you go into labour, but after 32 weeks it's less effective and might not directly protect your baby.

Oh shit, I just realised I haven’t had mine either. Bugger.

Still gives quite a bit of protection - part of the aim of doing it so early is also to protect pre term babies, if you are looking like carrying to term you still have 5 weeks to go.

I'm having my c section in 4 weeks, so I hope it'll have enough time to work.
I feel so stupid.

I don’t know why they don’t book it into the normal list of appointments and the midwive gives so everyone just had automatically- so many people forget