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 :)

Let's for a moment assume that breast feeding does offer the protection from whooping cough that you think it does.

What happens if you can't breast feed? I appreciate that's your plan but sadly things don't always work out the way we planned them. If you get get the vaccination and you can't breast feed your baby is high and dry.

I caught whooping cough in my mid 40s; I'd had all the vaccinations and boosters for it as a child, but it wasn't offered during my pregnancy so I hadn't had a booster for over 40 years. My DP caught it too- in fact I caught it from him; it was going around the hospital where he works like wild fire. I have to tell you it was very scary, not being able to breathe because I was coughing so much. I was able to control it to some extent by swallowing against the cough but that took a lot of self control especially as the coughing made me feel nauseous as well. The severe coughing lasted for a couple of weeks and gradually tailed off over months, yes months.

Please have the vaccine

That should be if you don't get the vaccine and you can't breast feed

Firstly, breast milk won't stop your baby getting Whooping cough.

And even if it could... what are you going to do if you can't breastfeed?

I didn't have the vaccine when pregnant. Not because I didn't want to but because it wasn't offered to me.
I found out too late that I should have booked the appointment to have it rather than waiting to be called into the surgery! Silly me!
Incidentally, it wasn't even discussed at earlier midwife appointments and I only knew about it from friends!

Anyway, all is well. Baby is 9 months now, had all the usual baby jabs, and luckily didn't catch it but I would have felt bloody awful if he had when he was tiny!!

Breast milk is wonderful but it will not protect your baby from whooping cough. Get the vaccine.

I have a family member who didn't vaccinate for WC they have various reasons but generally don't believe it is necessary to vaccinate and that your body, breast milk and as you get older clean eating will provide the nutrients you need to fight sickness
Both their children got WC the youngest was only a baby at the time. They both recovered thankfully but they were very sick for sometime and the children were both very distressed whilst ill. They still maintain that the kids were fine and their bodies adapted to the illness and that their kids will be stronger for it in the long run.
They believe this to be true but have yet to provide any solid evidence from a reputable to back this claim up. I found it very difficult to stand back and worry for those kids and watch them suffer unnecessary, however it is their parents right to make that decision as it is my right to follow the evidence that the vaccine is generally safe and protects my children from suffering and harm.

@buttercupcup I didnt take the vaccine

My Mum obviously didn't have the whooping cough vaccine (because I was born before 2012!) and I was exclusively breastfed. I got whooping cough as a baby, was hospitalised and nearly died. She said it was the scariest thing that ever happened to her.

If you do manage to find people who are saying that their baby is safe from an infection in the first 8 weeks of life because of breast milk they are simply misinformed.

Why do you only want to hear from one side of this question?!

Your baby is not immune from whooping cough unless you get the vaccine. That is true even if you breastfeed. Google videos of whooping cough then ask yourself if you’re willing to put your baby through that.

[quote Superfoodie123]@buttercupcup I didnt take the vaccine[/quote]
The point is everyone around you did, that is why your baby was protected. The take up of the vaccine is pretty high and that is the reason it isn't in wide circulation. People who don't take the vaccine are protected because others do. Obviously it doesn't work when everyone refuses.

Can I just say - I had the vaccination AND for whooping cough a couple of years ago (yes it can happen - it was confirmed at the hospital).

It is horrible - you feel as if you are going to throw up with all the coughing. Your ribs and throat aches. You can’t catch your breath and feel as if you are trying to breathe under water. You cough so much that you get to the point where you feel that you will lose control of your bladder.

If you haven’t had it/ are having thoughts of not having it - please think again.

I had whooping cough as a child (it was a standard vaccine in the late 70s) and it was horrific. I was really ill and I remember it vividly.

Breast milk doesn’t help a baby with whooping cough but a vaccine does. It might help you to read up on how breast milk antibodies actually work and also accept that a significant number of women don’t breastfeed beyond the first few days or weeks.

I did not have it with my youngest. I was lucky to be able to benefit from the herd immunity that children and other pregnant women were vaccinated so the risk was low but only because others get vaccinated.

I had had it in my previous pregnancy 2 years earlier so was also hoping some of that immunity was still present in my body. I had had a severe reaction afterwards and it was in the advice of my consultant that I dodo to have it again.
I was still a bit worried and was relieved when my baby had her her set of vaccinations

dodo-didn’t !

@milkconfusion3

I did not have it with my youngest. I was lucky to be able to benefit from the herd immunity that children and other pregnant women were vaccinated so the risk was low but only because others get vaccinated.

I had had it in my previous pregnancy 2 years earlier so was also hoping some of that immunity was still present in my body. I had had a severe reaction afterwards and it was in the advice of my consultant that I dodo to have it again.
I was still a bit worried and was relieved when my baby had her her set of vaccinations

The vaccine doesn’t work like that. It doesn’t matter how much immunity you have in your body. You need the vaccination for each pregnancy to enable it to pass through the placenta and protect the baby. As you say, your baby was lucky to benefit from herd immunity and that’s why those who can be vaccinated should be.

@Superfoodie123 you didn’t but everyone around you did hence why you didn’t encounter it. You have been protected by herd immunity.

I had whooping cough 2 years ago. I am a tall fit healthy woman, never smoked, no underlying health conditions...

Whooping cough is a cough. But instead of you coughing and fetching up a bit of phlegm or snot, or clearing your chest, with whooping cough, the consistency of what you fetch up is different. Instead of being like the consistency of undercooked egg, think of something more like a thin sheet of latex, like a popped balloon. So, this little thin thing comes up and then sticks over your wind pipe. That’s where the “whoop” comes from - you’re literally fighting for air to get in past the thing blocking your pipe, and for it to move. It is terrifying the coughing is SO hard because you have to move the blockage. I ripped my bladder desperately trying to cough and breathe.

If, as a big strapping woman this could tell me, I can see how it wipes out babies. Do you want to take that risk???

@SnowFields ah I see, I wasn’t sure the dr told me the immunity lasts approx 5 years so I wasn’t sure if that meant baby would get any from the jab I’d had the pregnancy before
Yes we are Lucky so many people who can have it do have it

I nearly died of whooping cough as a baby AFTER having the vaccine. My mum thought I was going to die and didn't put me down for 3 full days.

Why an earth would you protect you child AFTER 8 weeks old but not before?

That’s truly absurd, get the vaccine.