Covid vaccine v early pregnancy

[rattlinbog]

I'm 4 weeks 3 days pregnant and have booked to have my Covid booster today. I have had every vaccine offered to me but for some reason am feeling anxious about this as it's so early on and worry that a high temperature in such early pregnancy could adversely affect the pregnancy.
Has anyone had the vaccine at 4 weeks?

Hey! I had mine at 12 weeks so not quite as early as you are, and I was totally fine. If it makes you feel a bit less anxious, you could wait until after your booking scan, but to be honest I'm sure it doesn't make too much of a difference :)

@rattlinbog congratulations! I had similar feelings with COVID booster and pushed it back to 2nd trimester even though they say it's safe at any time during pregnancy 💕

Covid vaccines do weird things to my cycle so I’d wait a month or two, but a Dr would probably give you a better idea.

I had almost no symptoms with my booster, definitely not a fever. Conversely my partner's aunt just had COVID and did run a fever for several days (as did I when I got it in June).

In a perfect world there'd be no COVID and no need for vaccination, but in the current times it really is much safer for you and the embryo even in tri 1 to get the vaccine than to get COVID, and it is circulating again.

Thanks everyone. I was so so ill about this point in my last pregnancy with sky high temperatures and ended up miscarrying one of my twins (other one perfectly healthy!). Obviously no idea whether it was related but it just makes me a bit nervous. Obviously I could catch Covid which would also give me a high temperature but I'm just wondering if postponing a couple of weeks might be wise.

They still let you take paracetamol in pregnancy don't they? So you could take that if you do get a temperature. I doubt the temperature itself is any direct risk to the pregnancy but you'd feel better without a temperature.

High temperature in early pregnancy can cause birth defects in children which is why I'm a bit nervous

@rattlinbog I had flu and a fever in the really dangerous stage 4-7 weeks and I had a 14 week scan and so far so good 🤞🏻
I can tell you after catching flu again the stress of getting something is worse than the stress of the vaccine.
I wasn’t going to get my Covid but after all this I have now decided too.

I think I was about 4/5 weeks when I had my third one. No problems for me or DS in relation to it!

I had my 4th at 14 weeks and I am grateful I did as three weeks later I got covid from my bonus kids and all I had was a blocked nose my DP has not had his 4th yet and he felt rotten with it so for me it was a good thing

And I am currently 22 weeks with a very active little miss

I had my booster at around 4wks last year, had no side effects but then suffered an early miscarriage at 6wks. I have no idea if the two were linked, logically I’d guess not given 1/4 of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, but for this reason I’d personally probably wait until I was a little further along in the pregnancy.

That said, I had my booster this year at 34wks, now 38wks and all appears to be on track so I’m hoping my first experience was just an unfortunate coincidence.

I had the booster at 5 weeks. My partner caught covid when I was 35 weeks pregnant. I didn't catch it. I know covid vaccines don't prevent you getting it but maybe it did help.