Whooping Cough Vaccine 2023

[Princess2022]

Hi ladies

Since the past few days I been thinking so much about whether to take the whooping cough vaccine or not.
I read so many things like women had stillbirths and felt less fetal movements in their pregnancy. This vaccine isn't tested on pregnant women either.
If I don't take it and my child suffers from Whooping cough I will regret and If I get the vaccine what if something goes wrong. I already suffered a miscarriage, I don't want to take any risk.
I'm going to go crazy thinking about what to do. Midwife asked me if I will be doing it I told her I will think about it.
I seen videos where Newborn are suffering from the cough and its really scary. But I don't want to lose my baby no matter what 🙁.
Can anyone tell me if they had reduced movements of baby after taking it or stillbirth?
I'm struggling to decide what to do.
Please be kind 🙏

@Chloejasmine02 - because it's not ethical to withhold perfectly effective, safe vaccines from pregnant women in a control group. That would effectively be condemning their vulnerable newborn babies to a totally unnecessary level of risk.

People always mention it. How would the control group work for pregnant women?

If you can think of the way of performing trials without risking the unborn baby (because they won't be vaccinated) it'd be great.

This is simply not true.

If you type "studies in to the safety of whooping cough vaccine in pregnant women" into your search engine (regular one, you don't need the scientific/academic ones for this) and you will get pages of hits to good quality peer-researched studies.

For example, the second hit for me was to this one from 2014 - the year of UK rollout

Safety of pertussis vaccination in pregnant women in UK: observational study | The BMJ