13 weeks pregnant, Covid vaccine - can anyone reassure me

[Lilly999]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently 13 weeks pregnant and due to have my Covid vaccine this weekend.

I'm massively worried that I'm making the wrong decision, but I'm equally scared of catching a bad case of Covid and die.

Can anyone reassure me? x

Yet another anecdote of a medical professional dishing out opinion rather than following their actual published national guidelines which are backed by the very best information that we have available to us at the time. If anybody did that working in education you'd be lucky to keep your job.

I'll second the recommendation to check out the Pregnant Then Screwed website as a starting point, plus all the BBC and so on news coverage recently about the numbers of unvaccinated women in ITUs and the tragic consequences many have faced.

I had my first dose at 13 weeks and second at 21 weeks- I'm now 23 weeks and feeling baby lots every day. I know it can feel like a nervewracking decision to make- you need to consider how able you would be to shield in third trimester/dramatically reduce your risk of picking it up in third tri I think and also weigh up any additional risk factors like your weight pre pregnancy, your ethnicity etc. I'm fat and in a very public facing job where distancing just isn't possible and no-one wears masks so for me my risks seemed high of contracting covid and I just wanted to have vaccine to try and a) reduce my chance of catching it in third tri and b) if I did catch it in third tri reduce the chance of ending up hospitalised etc.

I'm 21 weeks and had first Pfizer at 12 weeks and 2nd jab a week ago. All fine. 20 week scan was all normal. Think with the way things are going there's far more risk from catching covid than getting the jab. Long covid is my worst nightmare.

I had my first Pfizer at 12w6 days (day after my twelve week scan). At my 20 week scan and private scan at 18 weeks baby was growing and developing well. I had my second jab at 21 weeks. I wanted to be double vaccinated before my eldest started back at nursery. My husband is also a key worker who works in very close contact with other people, often in poorly ventilated spaces so being double vaccinated was very important for me. I'm now 22w6 and baby is kicking away.

Like previous people have said for me and my husband we decided that the known risk of catching covid in pregnancy greatly outweighed the unknown risks of the vaccine that pregnant women are encouraged to get.