Flu jab

[EmilyG2020]

Just wondered how many have had the flu jab and positives and negatives. I'm booked in for mine this morning.

I'm about 7 weeks pregnant atm

Have a look at this thread. Its in this pregnancy section if the link doesnt work.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/3800644-Doubts-about-the-flu-jab

Had mine at 11 weeks. Only negative was a bit of a sore arm.

Had mine yesterday, I’m 29 weeks and my arm is a bit achey today but that’s all ☺️

Definitely get the flu vaccine. As a pregnant woman you are at higher risk of developing complications if you catch flu and this includes premature birth of your baby or even stillbirth. Also, the immune response that your body makes gets shared with your baby via the placental blood exchange so you're also helping to protect them for the first few months of life before their own immune systems start improving.

I would say the cons are minimal: discomfort for you due to it being a jab in the arm. The flu vaccine cannot give you or your baby flu as the vaccine you will be given isn't a live vaccine.

Best of luck

Please get the vaccine
Flu season is massive this year and cases are still rising. In a local ITU there are 13 beds with 11 taken up with flu

Flu is serious, protect yourself and your baby

Get the jab. I had flu in 2017 (wasn’t pregnant). Ended up in hospital for a week. I was pumped full of drugs to get my temp down from over 40 (still didn’t come down easily), had multiple rounds of steroids for my breathing, my blood oxygen stats were awful. I honestly felt like I was dying. I cannot even imagine it while pregnant. They’d have to be very cautious with drugs & I dread to think of the effect of my sky high high fever & low oxygen in my blood on my unborn baby.

I’ve had the flu jab several times, both when pregnant & not. I get a sore arm & sometimes mild cold like like symptoms. But compared to how I felt with the flu, it wouldn’t even register as an issue!

Thanks everyone. I've spoken to the doctor this morning and they have rescheduled it as Im not feeling 100% so they have said they will do
It next Monday instead.

I didn't have it both pregnancies