Covid Vaccine - 3rd Trimester

[lee12345]

Hi,

I know there are tons of threads about getting
The covid vaccine. I just really wanted some advice & real life stories of people who have waited until the 3rd trimester to have their first vaccination.
I am currently 25 weeks pregnant & had decided not to get the vaccine. I am now scared I've made the wrong decision & should
Get the vaccine to protect me & baby, but that I have left it too late. The nearest appointment I can get for 1st vaccine is when I'm 27 weeks, which means 2nd vaccine won't be until at least
35 weeks. What if I catch covid in this time? Should I still get the vaccine or wait until baby is here. I'm scared of the long term effects of the vaccine on the baby.
Many thanks

It should be entirely your informed choice. To be kept better protected from covid then better vaccinate now/late than never. You could also use walk on clinic so you don't need to wait 2 weeks for your appointment.

I had my vaccine at 30 weeks and 35 weeks. Me and baby are doing well. Baby will be born any day now as I'm ending week 40 in a couple of days.

Still get the vaccine. I would have gotten mine earlier but it was advised against back then. I had my first at 29 weeks & second at 31 weeks - you could always try a walk in centre 3 weeks after your first jab or talk to GP and says it’s medical urgency that you get double jabbed ASAP xx

If you have it at 35 weeks you'd be fully covered by 37 weeks I think so as protected as you can be prior to labour in normal circumstances. My main worry now is that I'd test positive for it and it would impact my birth choices, I'm double vaccinated so hopefully if I did catch it I would 'cope' but a positive test still ahs implications in my trust I believe. That's why I'm doing as much as I can like we were in the first lockdown.

All you can do until you get the jab is try to minimise the chances of catching it without compromising your mental health. If you choose not to have the vaccine for some reason you would need to be even more mindful of that and also the really worrying stats coming out of ITUs about unvaccinated pregnant women. We know that covid is very serious for unvaccinated pregnant women, yes we don't know for absolute certainty the vaccine is completely foolproof but I really don't think 'they' would be recommending it if they weren't confident that the benefits of the vaccine far far outweigh any, at this point, hypothetical issues. The US data is very encouraging and there will be people in the UK who had early jabs (healthcare professionals mainly) while pregnant who now have had babies safely too.

Even having 1 jab is better than none, the majority of pregnant women in hospital who are severely unwell with covid are the completely unvaccinated ones so the sooner you get your first jab in the better.
Also even after pregnancy, you don't want to be unwell with covid and having to look after a newborn, and as others have said, it's worth travelling to a walk in centre if that means you can get your first jab sooner.
Best of luck!