Who does NOT had the whooping cough vaccination can explain to me why?

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Please only comment if you NOT!!! had this vaccination. The site is full with comments about the opposite way so i can read about this.
I am currently nearly 14 weeks pregnant and slowly the time coming to this vaccination time. In my opinion this baby is safe and protected in my womb just now, in this small age (16 weeks) i do not wish to get any of this kind of stuff. Especially at 8 weeks time the baby could get a vaccination for this sickness. I know this one meant to be protecting on that 8 weeks, but then again the breast milk is full with vitamins and goot thing wich makes the baby's inside stronger and stronger.. is anyone thinking the same way than me? Please share your experience with me :)

The prize for spectacularly missing the point goes to @Superfoodie123. Your baby didn't get it, because everyone else had their vaccination.

OP, what is the downside of having it?

Listen, I had whooping cough as an infant (my mum didn’t believe in vaccines). At 38 I still remember how ill I felt even now. It lasted weeks, I lived on a mattress in the living room and could not sleep or play. My lungs and lung capacity were so damaged at such a young age that the Dr said then to my mum that I would always be prone to nasty coughs every cold I had, as well as pneumonia etc.

Sadly, he was right. I have had at least one (and usually more) really hacking cough/chest infection every year of my life, except during covid, funnily enough. If there is a respiratory infection anywhere in my vicinity, I will catch it, and it will go to my lungs. I have never been able to be sporty or do running as my lung capacity is shot. If I run for a train or walk up a hill my lungs heart more than they should, despite an active lifestyle.

I was exclusively breastfed for a long time and raised on wholefoods with no added sugar. It made no difference.

Why on earth would you do this to your poor child?! Your feelings and beliefs do not stop your baby getting sick with whooping cough. Learn from my experience, please.

I just don’t understand why you wouldn’t want a vaccine that is incredibly safe and effective to protect your baby from a disease that could be lethal to them?

I got whooping cough at 6 weeks old in the 90s when they didn't give it to pregnant ladies, I m lucky it was a few days in hospital and not a worse outcome.

Also breastfeeding won't cure all your babies illness and vitamin D supplementation is recommended for babies so although it's the ideal nutrition its nothing compared to vaccines and modern medicine.

Babies are most vulnerable to whooping cough in the first eight weeks before they have had their own vaccinations. They don't do well at this age if they catch it because their airway is already narrow. If you are vaccinated, the newborn will have antibodies in their bloodstream which reduces the chance of them being hospitalised or worse. There are no known adverse effects to the baby and it is one of the most widely used vaccines in pregnancy. Why wouldn't you?

I have never met an anti vaxxer in real life so I often wonder how far people like op will take their commitment to keeping things "pure". I wonder if the op has made sure she hasn't got in her car, or been near any car, to ensure she doesn't breathe any fumes. I wonder if she's avoided all processed food, all refined sugar.

I'm pregnant and had the whopping cough vaccine.

My sister had whooping cough when she was little. We weren't vaccinated as it wasn't standard at the time.

My sister caught it, she was horribly poorly. I still have really vivid memories of the noise she made and I was very young. My parents must have been terrified.

She was a toddler rather than a baby and it was awful. It would have been so much worse if she'd been younger.

She would vomit multiple times a day, cough until she went blue and made choking noises, and then there was the whoop - really really scary, painful and dangerous.

Please don't take chances with whooping cough. Get your baby vaccinated, you could save its life, or save it from a horrible painful and traumatic illness.

I was born in the late 70s. I had all my jabs except the whooping cough because at the time, my mum was to.d (I don't know by who) that it should not be given to kids who have convulsions in the family. I've since learned it was BS advice. Thank nature I never contracted it, I've seen videos on YouTube and it's a horrifying illness. My DD had a febrile convulsion as a toddler (late 2000s) and my mum leapt on it, saying, did she have her whooping cough jab? I said the doctor told me there was no connection. She had a virus, she overheated, I couldn't shovel Calpol into her quick enough. My fault.

Immunise.

I did not get the whooping cough vaccine as my parents were worried about side-effects due to media at the time. I had whooping cough instead. All my later siblings got the vaccine.

I wasn’t able to have my whooping cough vaccine as an 8 week old baby, because I’d had a very traumatic, premature birth with a 3 week NICU stay and I was considered too vulnerable. I was therefore reliant on everyone around me having had theirs in order to protect my delicate lungs. This was also before it was a standard vaccine to give to pregnant mothers. No idea if this advice is still in effect today, but there are likely to still be circumstances in which some vulnerable babies are not able to be vaccinated at 8 weeks, why would you not want to give them the guaranteed protection whilst they are still inside you?

Had mine last week at 21 weeks and didn’t even consider not having it, why on earth would you?

If you don't want it, don't have it. If baby does get infected you'll only have yourself to blame. You may be lucky, you may not.

I've had this vaccine with all my children and will again this time. Haven't bothered with flu this time yet but I was never offered that with our eldest 2.

It wasn't offered to me where i am...
Only flu vaccine.
But i am not in the UK

My mother was breast fed, but nearly died of whopping cough at a few weeks old.
When my turn came to have the vaccine in pregnancy, I was so grateful that my baby and I wouldn’t have to go through this.

I didn’t get the whooping cough vaccine when I was pregnant, or the flu vaccine. I also didn’t drink caffeine or alcohol, avoided artificial sweeteners and msg, and didn’t even take so much as a paracetamol or antacid. My eczema got really bad because I stopped using steroid cream. I just felt it wasn’t worth the risk, particularly as whooping cough rates are so low where I live. After giving birth I didn’t really go out and mix for a couple of months so the risk of catching anything was very low.

I had mine today. I'd rather have it myself now than have another needle than necessary jabbed into my 8 week old baby.

Let alone the risk of serious suffering or death if they got whooping cough before 8 weeks.

Honestly.

Baby isn't safe and protected inside you if you get whooping cough though is it. Also don't believe breast feeding will also stop baby from getting whooping cough when it's born. I know 2 kids who were breast fed up until about the age of 3. They're the sickest kids I've ever met. I could understand you refusing the Covid one because we all know there isn't enough evidence to support it being safe in pregnancy but the whooping cough one has been around for years and not caused any problems

My daughter has had all her immunisations, however last year she caught whooping cough. She was very unwell with it, she struggled to breathe, I dread to think how much worse she’d have been if she hadn’t been immunised. She was 17 at the time, so it can affect you at any age.

I had my whooping cough vaccine and flu jab when i was pregnant. My 8 week old had their vaccinations yesterday. I want to protect my baby from any 'possible' illnesses. Breast milk doesn't prevent catching whooping cough or any other illness that they could be vaccinated against.

Putting aside the misinformation you have about bf protecting your baby, why would you rather your 8 week old baby have an injection than you having one so they don't have to?

So your plan is to breastfeed your way out of whooping cough? What if you can't breastfeed? Have you seen the amount of threads on this forum written by tired and emotional women who have tried their hardest and can't breastfeed?
Talk to your gp if you're really concerned about the implications of vaccinating. It may set your mind at ease.

I was born in the 70s I wasn't given the jab. I think it wasn't as common pIace to have it then. I went on to catch it. I was given the measles jab though - because my older sister caught measles having not had the jab and was quite poorly with it.

I was a medical student in London in 2012, I saw some of the babies who had not been vaccinated. I tried really hard not to judge their parents, there was enough guilt and anguish but it didn’t do anything to help their babies. I can’t even imagine how much worse it would be for families like that during a pandemic.

I’ve had whooping cough. It is a horrible illness and you feel like you will die every time you cough because you are gasping for breath.

Oh for fucks sake. If breast milk could protect you from Whooping cough we'd all be bloody swigging it into our 90s. Hell I'd be expressing it and selling on the street.

Have you ever seen a baby with whooping cough? I have. We thought she was going to die. She caught it at 3 weeks. Her mother had never been vaccinated. She is vaccinated now and so is the baby (nearly teen now) and her brothers. She was in hospital for weeks, we were constantly waiting for the call to say she had died. She barely pulled through.

Educate yourself about the diseases, look at the previous mortality rates. Are you seriously going to leave your baby at risk from a deadly but completely preventable disease because you were stupid enough to think that fucking breast milk would protect them?

Jesus wept.

I'm older than you - my kids are now late teens early 20s and I never had a vaccine but I made sure they did as babies.

As per PattyPan, I had whooping cough as an adult around 4 years ago. I probably caught it travelling by train and tube for work.

I have asthma too so when I first got ill I thought it was just a cold or flu virus - but it really hit hard and I saw the GP for steroids, time off work etc. But it got worse, my then young teen DD was terrified when the coughing fits meant I effectively stopped breathing for a few seconds and then the whooping sound followed as I struggled for air.

I ended up on a nebuliser to improve my breathing and it took months before I was well again.

The vaccine is routinely offered to protect you - don't take it lightly.