RSV vaccine 4 days before birth ?

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I'm 38wks3 days and have a planned c section for next Tues. I was recently contacted to have the RSV vaccine and the vaccine are taking walk ins today.
I've read it's best to have it between 28-36 weeks of pregnancy to give your body time to build up some sort of immunity.
I've read if your less than 2 weeks from birth it's pointless:
I would have had it if offered sooner but I'm just wondering if I should still have it so close to birth in 4 days?
I know the walk in clinic will let me have it.
Thankyou

It will still offer you some immunity which will reduce the chances of you passing the virus onto your baby, but it won’t build up much/any immunity in the baby at this late stage as it takes 14 days.

Thanks

I suppose having it is better than not at all x

I've just had it at 39+2, they said it was still worth it as anything better than nothing. Also if breastfeeding it will pass to baby anyway

Thankyou! Did you have any reactions x

I had mine at 37 weeks in the knowledge that I could give birth at any time 😂 I’m now 39 so have had the 2 weeks but I thought it was better to have some immunity than none. The only side effect I had was a sore arm for a few hours

It’s being given due to lots of babies being in hospital with it last year. Definitely worth getting.

I didn't even have a sore arm after mine! I was questioning if they'd even given me anything tbh 🤣

Please have this jab.

I never got offered it with either of mine.

My DS was just over a year old when my parents brought him home from theirs with a cold. He was bunged up but OK then.

I popped him in his playpen and nipped to the toilet.

When I back in to the room he was laying down and his breathing was shallow. You could see his chest straining to breathe. I looked at his face and his lips were slightly blue.

I called 999 urgently. They sent out paramedics and they in turn sent for a ambulance. I was advised to get him an overnight bag with some of his favourite toys in and go with them.

My husband was out on his work night Christmas do. I was alone and petrified of losing our son. I wasn't told anything at that point.

The ambulance blue lighted us to hospital. His breathing dipped and rose the whole journey and the cough when had the breath to do it was horrendous.

After a very short wait he was seen and diagnosed RSV/bronchiolitis. My husband met us in hospital.

Had the ambulance not been called or got there so quickly he could have died.

Until that moment neither my husband nor I had ever heard of this. We didn't understand what it was or if we'd done anything wrong. The doctors explained it is a usually harmless virus. We hadn't missed anything because it presents as a cold. A common cold.

Fast forward 11 years and he's now a strapping 12 year old powerhouse who lives, eats and breathes football. It is my belief that we owe his life to the amazing paediatric team in the hospital and the incredibly patient and kind paramedics who sped us in.

If I'd had any idea about this I'd pushed the world down to get any jab. Anything, anything other than that absolutely fear of losing a child, a baby.

A small chance of your baby being protected against this awful virus (Respiratory Syncitial Virus) is better than none at all.

He's fine. Although he does have a seasonal winter cough which lasts all winter months and takes me back to that awful night. It doesn't bother him, he doesn't have asthma (although does carry a blue inhaler with him even if he very rarely uses it and he's seen by the GP every year).

DD has never had it and thankfully at 7, never will.

We were lucky.

Thanks for replies.
Also is it being rolled out just to pregnant mothers ? And are new born babies being offered it , if there mothers haven't had it in pregnancy?

I got mine at like 37+5 and asked the nurse if it was still worth having - she said definitely and especially if you're planning to breastfeed, even if you had baby right away they would still get antibodies from your milk as you build immunity. And even if baby is formula fed, you not being able to pass on the virus to them would be a positive thing!

i had mine at 38 weeks, nurse said still worth it if even a small amount of immunity is transferred, plus I'm not planning C section so could easily have an extra 2 weeks after due date. And as others said, if you breastfeed, that also will pass the immunity on. I don't think they will vaccine babies, only pregnant people and elderly. i've had zero symptoms since the vaccine

It's worth going to the walk in and asking the vaccine midwife.

My understanding is that even having it late, a small benefit may pass the placenta, and you would pass the benefit if breastfeeding.

For RSV neither you nor baby would get vaccinated after birth it's only being offered to pregnant women and elderly. I had 0 reaction, not even sore arm.

Please have the vaccine. DD had it when she was about 1. It was a very bad cold for her luckily, but she passed it to me. I have asthma which is usually very well controlled, but it hit me like a tonne of bricks. It caused a very severe asthma attack whilst I was caring for her, resulting in needing hospitalisation. Had DP not been wfh that day I think the outcome could have been very different. I was so breathless I couldn't speak and would have struggled to get help.

It’s being offered to older people too, I think 70-75.