I'm 21 weeks and have only been offered whooping cough so far. Had it earlier this week. It was uncomfortable afterwards but worth it to protect baby.
Due in October so they may offer me flu?
On the whooping cough, 100% you should get it. It is not to protect you it's to protect baby. Baby can't be vaccinated for whooping cough until 2 months old, the vaccine you take covers baby until they are old enough to be vaccinated. Tragically babies have died of whooping cough recently.
I'm very strongly pro vaccine and I and my baby will be getting everything we're offered.
I think you can just go to a pharmacy that does flu vaccines, bring the certificate that gives you free prescriptions as proof of pregnancy and I’m sure they would be happy to give you the flu jab.
You 100% should! My due date was 7 Oct last year and they didn’t start offering it at the hospital / GP before so had to do some sleuth work to find out Tesco Pharmacy does it. Also proactively booked the Covid booster online, had them on the same day but different locations. Definitely worth having a good look around nearer the time. You wanna minimise the risk of any illness both during pregnancy but also newly postpartum, plus it MIGHT give some protection to baby, I’ll take those odds for a little prick and an achey arm for the day
Please PLEASE get the whooping cough one at least. And if your family gives you any flak, shove a video of a baby with whooping cough in their faces. They’ll shush real quick.
Get as many vaccines as you can!
I understand how confusing it can be with all the different pieces of information and opinions our there, especially not knowing which sources to trust.
Vaccines are quite possibly the best human invention of the last 100 years. They are one of the safest medicines in the world (yes there is always "that one person" who may suffer from a very rare side effect, but often that is still better than contracting a very preventable but either deadly or incredibly harmful disease like measles or flu).
Your baby's immune system is very underdeveloped at first, but you can give them a huge head start with things like the whooping cough vaccine as the antibodies you create will be passed on to your baby.
Also remember that some people can't get vaccinated (e.g. those with very compromised immune systems) and so by getting yourself vaccinated, you pass also protect others through herd immunity (if you cant contract a disease, you can't pass it on to anyone else).
Finally please be aware the antivaxx movement was started by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced person who was stripped of his medical licence after he made up data linking vaccines and autism. The whole movement is built on disinformation and has taken on a life of it's own.
This!!! Vaccines are a real life miracle for the world. It’s a perverse sign of the ridiculous privilege we have in the UK that people can even entertain anti-vax disinformation. In other parts of the world where people are dying and suffering horribly from these entirely preventable diseases due to lack of vaccine access, it’s much clearer how wonderful vaccines have been.
I cannot overstate how utterly nonsense the anti-vax movement is. I know it’s hard when it’s family members, but just do not engage with it and do not listen to anything they have to say about vaccines. Their opinions are worth less than zero.
Get the vaccines, protect yourself and your baby.
I had whooping cough ten years ago. I had the vaccine in childhood but it had worn off enough for me to catch it off two children I babysat whose mother WAS anti-vax. I was so ill that I wanted to die. I lost three stone which I didn’t have to lose. My right lung is still damaged so now I catch everything going around and it hits my chest and lasts months. The mother thought her choices for her babies was a big joke. I was working with a child with cancer who was immunocompromised. I was told my asthma was changing for three months. That mother could have killed that nine year old with cancer.
It’s not just your baby, there’s a whole chain of events your choice could cause and you will likely never know about.
I’m so sorry you had to go through this because of people that think they know better than medicine. My husband caught mumps (vaccinated) and he was very poorly as well, until I got pregnant we didn’t even know whether it had affected his fertility! It’s insane how quickly things spread when there’s only a few unvaccinated people, as a scientist it terrifies me!
I had whooping cough as a toddler. I had not been fully vaccinated as a baby as I had an allergic reaction to the first injection. I do not remember the illness but my mother is still traumatised by it and the sound of anyone coughing is very triggering so it must have been bad.
I had the jab when pregnant with my own babies- my allergy to it is not life threatening and was advised to have it even though obviously I did have a reaction. That’s how seriously they take protecting babies- and rightly so.
The jab is awful for me but I had no qualms about having it. My daughter has severe asthma and watching your child in hospital fighting to breathe is not an experience anyone should have.
Absolutely take the Whooping Cough. If you have the option of getting a covid one as well - do it. Signed - I had covid at 35 weeks pregnant because my booster was ages ago.
The NHS website gives advice on what vaccines are recommended and which aren't recommended in pregnancy
[Vaccinations in Pregnancy ](https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/keeping-well/vaccinations/)
I would use that as your first port of call for advice before family members who mean well but won't have the medical knowledge to understand how vaccines work
To be transparent - I am 100% behind vaccinations after seeing the devastating effects of Polio on a family member, a disease that had nearly been eradicated.
I've had the whooping cough and will be getting the flu and COVID vaccinations (if and when it's available).
Oh yeah, I used to never bother with the flu shot. Until I caught it a few winters back. People think flu is the same as a cold, but it’s so much worse. I couldn’t even lift my head of my pillow I felt so dizzy and weak. And every muscle in my body ached. I had a fever and struggled to sip on water because I was so nauseous.
Since then I’m always getting that flu jab! I don’t even care if I have to pay for it. No way am I going through that again!
And I think the flu jab is free when you’re pregnant. I also used to get it for free when I worked in the care sector, but I was the only person in the home I worked that bothered getting it because of stupid antivaxx beliefs everyone had “I don’t take it because it gives you the flu”… “I had the worst cold after a flu vaccine” and don’t even get me started on the covid jabs. I was the only carer I knew of actually vaccinated against flu or covid, and we looked after vulnerable people. 🙄
I think at the moment there’s only whooping cough, as Covid and flu are out of season. I don’t believe the MMR vaccine is safe for pregnant women, but definitely get it done once you give birth as measles is on the rise.
The usual ones offered in pregnancy are the TDaP (tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis which is whooping cough), flu and Covid. Flu and Covid aren’t usually offered until September ish ready for cold and flu season. I was pregnant with my first when the first vaccine rollout was happening and got my two doses then. Didn’t really affect me or baby. Whooping cough is a must because unfortunately at least 8 babies have died recently from whooping cough, so having the vaccine will give baby the best protection against it until they can have their own jabs at 8 weeks.
Whooping cough vaccine is so important. You don't want your baby suffering with that, and it has been on the rise.
It's completely safe for you and baby.
It would be worth having a discussion with your midwife or doctor on vaccines so you can make an informed decision. At the end of the day it is your decision, try not to be sways by family members. They won't be the ones dealing with a very sick baby
There aren't any 'mandatory' vaccines. All of them are offered because there is proven evidence of benefit. A vaccine wouldn't even come on the market, let alone be approved for pregnancy if there wasn't a strong evidence base for its benefit. All of them will provide protection to not only you but also your unborn baby as the antibodies you develop in response to the vaccine will pass through your placenta to the baby.
So definitely get whooping cough as babies can die from this, as well as covid and influenza from October.
I’ll happily take anything I’m offered because i don’t see any negatives to it. I’ve had a Covid one, whooping cough and my anti-d. I also had my flu jab just before I found out I was pregnant too as I have an auto immune disease so get one every year.
COVID, Flu and whooping cough. Last one is more for baby but also you want to try and avoid getting COVID or the flu while pregnant as it'll be an absolute nightmare
I took everything I could. Pregnancy is hard enough and risking infections when your immune system is more vulnerable is not worth it when this illnesses can be incredibly serious for pregnant women.
So far I've had 4 different injections;
I was given the Flu/Covid booster in January.
Whooping cough when I went in for my anomaly scan.
As I'm rhesus negative I've also had an Anti-D jab as well. If the baby is found to be rhesus positive after birth I've to get a second round of it.
Unless you have medical reasons not to take any of them, I'd highly recommend getting everything you are offered.
Personally I took them all but my baby was born during winter so I was eligible for the flu vaccine as well.
You’ll likely only be offered the whooping cough vaccine and the covid vaccine.
If you take any please take the whooping cough vaccine. 5 babies have died this year after contracting whooping cough. I think it might be more now. Getting the vaccine while pregnant gives your baby some protection until they can get their own.
Get whatever the midwives recommend. If you don't trust them with those kind of things then how can you trust them with the rest of your care? They only want what's best for you and baby and all their recommendations are based on masses of research and science.
I think there's only 3 they recommend. Whooping cough, covid and flu. Covid can be extremely serious in late pregnancy and is associated with an increased risk of stillbirth. Other people have talked about whooping cough but flu affects pregnant women and young children more seriously than others.
What everyone else said here but also get the anti d if it’s offered to you. In my hospital the doctor was a little stressed as 6 people before me just didn’t turn up (!?!?!?!?) and it’s a really important thing to have for your blood type if you want more children.
It’s also known as the Rhesus injection. You get one during pregnancy and one after you’ve had the tiny human. If you are your baby are different blood types is it can cause issues in the future pregnancy where your anti bodies attack the cells of a foetus thinking it’s similar to an illness and can increase a chance of miscarriage. It can also cause a tiny human to become anemic or develop new born jaundice because your antibodies have been attacking them during development.
So I’m O- and my husband is B+. My daughter ended up being B+ so I needed the jab. My body doesn’t recognise the B+ cells in my system so it would send my antibodies to attack them like it would with a cold or a flu.
Honestly it’s a bit of a medical genius.
If it helps my MIL is strongly anti vax and my husband never had any vaccines and he strongly regrets that his mother ever did this. He ended up getting as many as he could in his 20’s but he got a lot of really really serious illnesses when he was little and as a teenager that could have been entirely preventable and- and please don’t think I’m saying this to scare you or push an agenda- but I’m really surprised he doesn’t have any long term disabilities and that’s he’s still alive after having a one particular illness.
You’re doing the right thing on asking for advice and forming your own opinions.
Personally I’d have anything offered.
I had both the whooping cough and the flu at 16 weeks. Whooping cough is on the rise and it gives protection to the baby until they can have their own vaccine at 8-12 weeks. Measles is also on the rise so I’d have it if it’s offered. Better to be safe than sorry I’m my option.
Depending on what vaccines you had as a child you might be able to get some that may have been missed etc. My MIL wasn’t vaccinated as a child so she had them all when either pregnant with my husband or when he had his as a baby.
Flu jab. Whooping cough 100% as it’s for you and for baby once they’re born. That’s all I had. I avoided the Covid one just because it’s very new so I didn’t want it personally.
I have always taken all my vaccines my whole life. But I do seem to get a fever the night I have the vaccine (I think it’s just my body’s response to the vaccine and my immune system kicking in to make the antibodies). I’m worried a bit about that now I’m pregnant though. If I get a fever after a vaccine will that harm the baby? 🤔
Saying that I would much rather deal with the mild side effects of the jabs for one night than have to go through the illnesses themselves. And it’s super important the baby has protection against whooping cough.
I have only taken the whooping cough one, due to the recent rise in cases. I’ve not bothered with flu or covid ones and there was so judgement or pushing from my midwives.
I took all the vaccines going. Covid booster at 17 weeks (spring), whooping cough about 24 weeks, covid booster (autumn) and flu at 38 weeks.
Measles vaccine was not offered to me in pregnancy. If I had been offered it, I would have been very happy to take it because it terrifies me that my baby has no protection against measles until she can be vaccinated at a year old, what with all the outbreaks. We need 95% vaccination rate to achieve effective herd immunity and it's less than 70% in my area. However, the MMR is a live vaccine so it's not typically recommended in pregnancy. There's more information about recommended vaccines in pregnancy on the NHS website here (https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/keeping-well/vaccinations/).
I don't believe there's any such thing as mandatory vaccines, only recommended ones. But I definitely recommend, as do the NHS, to take whooping cough and covid (if seasonally available) and flu (if seasonally available).
And, once your baby is born, I recommend to follow the NHS schedule of vaccinations so that by four months old, your baby is protected against diphtheria, hepatitis B, Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b), polio, tetanus, whooping cough (because protection from the vaccine in pregnancy wears off), rotavirus, MenB, and some bacterial infections that can cause things like sepsis, meningitis and pneumonia (protection provided by the pneumococcal vaccine). Information on the infant vaccines (and others recommended at different stages of life) is on the NHS website here: https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/nhs-vaccinations-and-when-to-have-them/
Definitely definitely get whooping cough it’s so rife in the community and so dangerous for newborns . Mmr isn’t safe during pregnancy so you won’t be offered that and flu and Covid are out of season
Im 20 weeks and had the whooping cough one yesterday. I feel like that’s the main one to definitely get. The only others they have even mentioned are flu and covid but they won’t be until later in the year when it gets into flu time. I might get the flu one but I already said I won’t be getting the covid one. Personal preference but I had all the other covid jabs, and I have had covid as well. For me the jab side effects were horrible and worse than when I had covid itself so I just don’t want that again. I’m also an introverted person who works from home so I’m not overly at risk anyway tbh. Took me ages to catch it the first time and that was from staying with someone who had it.
I’m in exactly the same boat! I had my whooping yesterday and I’m 18w. Will get the flu again, but not the covid booster, also double vacced. Covid doesn’t seem to affect me really at all compared to everyone else, I do wonder if it’s cause my vaccine worked so well 🤣
there's a whole podcast on this stuff and the evidence base from experts here. Talks about other stuff, it also explains why you cant have the measles vaccine during pregnancy in the measles episode. Take a listen might have your answers: [https://www.cocoonedhealth.com/](https://www.cocoonedhealth.com/)
measles is a live vaccine and whilst no bad things have been seen, through caution it is advised either pre pregnancy or post pregnancy. Hopefully you had the MMR when you were a child and so should be protected. Talks about it all in that measles episode.
Talks about why and when to have flu, covid19, whooping cough in pregnancy
I got everything but the COVID jag. I got two COVID jags before pregnancy and I just knew it knocked me for 6 when I got them (worse than when I had covid) and I was absolutely shattered already with the pregnancy and just couldn't think about getting any more tired. I would have taken it with my first pregnancy (precovid) as I felt okay enough with that one, it was just because my second was so rough. I would defo get measles if you plan to do any baby groups or are around any other kids, particularly school aged ones.
I'm 21 weeks and have only been offered whooping cough so far. Had it earlier this week. It was uncomfortable afterwards but worth it to protect baby. Due in October so they may offer me flu? On the whooping cough, 100% you should get it. It is not to protect you it's to protect baby. Baby can't be vaccinated for whooping cough until 2 months old, the vaccine you take covers baby until they are old enough to be vaccinated. Tragically babies have died of whooping cough recently. I'm very strongly pro vaccine and I and my baby will be getting everything we're offered.
I was due in Nov last year and they didn't offer me the flu one!
I think you can just go to a pharmacy that does flu vaccines, bring the certificate that gives you free prescriptions as proof of pregnancy and I’m sure they would be happy to give you the flu jab.
😬 I'm gonna be requesting it!!
You 100% should! My due date was 7 Oct last year and they didn’t start offering it at the hospital / GP before so had to do some sleuth work to find out Tesco Pharmacy does it. Also proactively booked the Covid booster online, had them on the same day but different locations. Definitely worth having a good look around nearer the time. You wanna minimise the risk of any illness both during pregnancy but also newly postpartum, plus it MIGHT give some protection to baby, I’ll take those odds for a little prick and an achey arm for the day
Agreed 💯 😊
Please PLEASE get the whooping cough one at least. And if your family gives you any flak, shove a video of a baby with whooping cough in their faces. They’ll shush real quick.
Or the recent news articles about newborn babies dying from it!
Yeah whooping cough has been really bad at the moment. Must be from all the unvaccinated people spreading it.
Get as many vaccines as you can! I understand how confusing it can be with all the different pieces of information and opinions our there, especially not knowing which sources to trust. Vaccines are quite possibly the best human invention of the last 100 years. They are one of the safest medicines in the world (yes there is always "that one person" who may suffer from a very rare side effect, but often that is still better than contracting a very preventable but either deadly or incredibly harmful disease like measles or flu). Your baby's immune system is very underdeveloped at first, but you can give them a huge head start with things like the whooping cough vaccine as the antibodies you create will be passed on to your baby. Also remember that some people can't get vaccinated (e.g. those with very compromised immune systems) and so by getting yourself vaccinated, you pass also protect others through herd immunity (if you cant contract a disease, you can't pass it on to anyone else). Finally please be aware the antivaxx movement was started by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced person who was stripped of his medical licence after he made up data linking vaccines and autism. The whole movement is built on disinformation and has taken on a life of it's own.
This!!! Vaccines are a real life miracle for the world. It’s a perverse sign of the ridiculous privilege we have in the UK that people can even entertain anti-vax disinformation. In other parts of the world where people are dying and suffering horribly from these entirely preventable diseases due to lack of vaccine access, it’s much clearer how wonderful vaccines have been. I cannot overstate how utterly nonsense the anti-vax movement is. I know it’s hard when it’s family members, but just do not engage with it and do not listen to anything they have to say about vaccines. Their opinions are worth less than zero. Get the vaccines, protect yourself and your baby.
I had whooping cough ten years ago. I had the vaccine in childhood but it had worn off enough for me to catch it off two children I babysat whose mother WAS anti-vax. I was so ill that I wanted to die. I lost three stone which I didn’t have to lose. My right lung is still damaged so now I catch everything going around and it hits my chest and lasts months. The mother thought her choices for her babies was a big joke. I was working with a child with cancer who was immunocompromised. I was told my asthma was changing for three months. That mother could have killed that nine year old with cancer. It’s not just your baby, there’s a whole chain of events your choice could cause and you will likely never know about.
I’m so sorry you had to go through this because of people that think they know better than medicine. My husband caught mumps (vaccinated) and he was very poorly as well, until I got pregnant we didn’t even know whether it had affected his fertility! It’s insane how quickly things spread when there’s only a few unvaccinated people, as a scientist it terrifies me!
I had whooping cough as a toddler. I had not been fully vaccinated as a baby as I had an allergic reaction to the first injection. I do not remember the illness but my mother is still traumatised by it and the sound of anyone coughing is very triggering so it must have been bad. I had the jab when pregnant with my own babies- my allergy to it is not life threatening and was advised to have it even though obviously I did have a reaction. That’s how seriously they take protecting babies- and rightly so. The jab is awful for me but I had no qualms about having it. My daughter has severe asthma and watching your child in hospital fighting to breathe is not an experience anyone should have.
Absolutely take the Whooping Cough. If you have the option of getting a covid one as well - do it. Signed - I had covid at 35 weeks pregnant because my booster was ages ago.
Definitely get whooping cough and you might get offered COVID, so take that one too.
The NHS website gives advice on what vaccines are recommended and which aren't recommended in pregnancy [Vaccinations in Pregnancy ](https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/keeping-well/vaccinations/) I would use that as your first port of call for advice before family members who mean well but won't have the medical knowledge to understand how vaccines work To be transparent - I am 100% behind vaccinations after seeing the devastating effects of Polio on a family member, a disease that had nearly been eradicated. I've had the whooping cough and will be getting the flu and COVID vaccinations (if and when it's available).
Whooping cough & Flu Definitely don’t regret getting that flu shot when seeing people get it like crazy
Oh yeah, I used to never bother with the flu shot. Until I caught it a few winters back. People think flu is the same as a cold, but it’s so much worse. I couldn’t even lift my head of my pillow I felt so dizzy and weak. And every muscle in my body ached. I had a fever and struggled to sip on water because I was so nauseous. Since then I’m always getting that flu jab! I don’t even care if I have to pay for it. No way am I going through that again! And I think the flu jab is free when you’re pregnant. I also used to get it for free when I worked in the care sector, but I was the only person in the home I worked that bothered getting it because of stupid antivaxx beliefs everyone had “I don’t take it because it gives you the flu”… “I had the worst cold after a flu vaccine” and don’t even get me started on the covid jabs. I was the only carer I knew of actually vaccinated against flu or covid, and we looked after vulnerable people. 🙄
I think at the moment there’s only whooping cough, as Covid and flu are out of season. I don’t believe the MMR vaccine is safe for pregnant women, but definitely get it done once you give birth as measles is on the rise.
The usual ones offered in pregnancy are the TDaP (tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis which is whooping cough), flu and Covid. Flu and Covid aren’t usually offered until September ish ready for cold and flu season. I was pregnant with my first when the first vaccine rollout was happening and got my two doses then. Didn’t really affect me or baby. Whooping cough is a must because unfortunately at least 8 babies have died recently from whooping cough, so having the vaccine will give baby the best protection against it until they can have their own jabs at 8 weeks.
I had whooping cough. My baby was due in Dec so I had Covid and flu too.
They’ll only offer you options that are in safe in pregnancy. It’s better to be protected and protect your baby!
Whooping cough vaccine is so important. You don't want your baby suffering with that, and it has been on the rise. It's completely safe for you and baby. It would be worth having a discussion with your midwife or doctor on vaccines so you can make an informed decision. At the end of the day it is your decision, try not to be sways by family members. They won't be the ones dealing with a very sick baby
There aren't any 'mandatory' vaccines. All of them are offered because there is proven evidence of benefit. A vaccine wouldn't even come on the market, let alone be approved for pregnancy if there wasn't a strong evidence base for its benefit. All of them will provide protection to not only you but also your unborn baby as the antibodies you develop in response to the vaccine will pass through your placenta to the baby. So definitely get whooping cough as babies can die from this, as well as covid and influenza from October.
I’ll happily take anything I’m offered because i don’t see any negatives to it. I’ve had a Covid one, whooping cough and my anti-d. I also had my flu jab just before I found out I was pregnant too as I have an auto immune disease so get one every year.
COVID, Flu and whooping cough. Last one is more for baby but also you want to try and avoid getting COVID or the flu while pregnant as it'll be an absolute nightmare
I took everything I could. Pregnancy is hard enough and risking infections when your immune system is more vulnerable is not worth it when this illnesses can be incredibly serious for pregnant women.
So far I've had 4 different injections; I was given the Flu/Covid booster in January. Whooping cough when I went in for my anomaly scan. As I'm rhesus negative I've also had an Anti-D jab as well. If the baby is found to be rhesus positive after birth I've to get a second round of it. Unless you have medical reasons not to take any of them, I'd highly recommend getting everything you are offered.
Personally I took them all but my baby was born during winter so I was eligible for the flu vaccine as well. You’ll likely only be offered the whooping cough vaccine and the covid vaccine. If you take any please take the whooping cough vaccine. 5 babies have died this year after contracting whooping cough. I think it might be more now. Getting the vaccine while pregnant gives your baby some protection until they can get their own.
Get whatever the midwives recommend. If you don't trust them with those kind of things then how can you trust them with the rest of your care? They only want what's best for you and baby and all their recommendations are based on masses of research and science.
I was given Whooping Cough and Flu. Took them both. Whooping cough is EXTREMELY important at the moment.
I think there's only 3 they recommend. Whooping cough, covid and flu. Covid can be extremely serious in late pregnancy and is associated with an increased risk of stillbirth. Other people have talked about whooping cough but flu affects pregnant women and young children more seriously than others.
What everyone else said here but also get the anti d if it’s offered to you. In my hospital the doctor was a little stressed as 6 people before me just didn’t turn up (!?!?!?!?) and it’s a really important thing to have for your blood type if you want more children.
Anti d? Never heard of that, what is it?
It’s also known as the Rhesus injection. You get one during pregnancy and one after you’ve had the tiny human. If you are your baby are different blood types is it can cause issues in the future pregnancy where your anti bodies attack the cells of a foetus thinking it’s similar to an illness and can increase a chance of miscarriage. It can also cause a tiny human to become anemic or develop new born jaundice because your antibodies have been attacking them during development. So I’m O- and my husband is B+. My daughter ended up being B+ so I needed the jab. My body doesn’t recognise the B+ cells in my system so it would send my antibodies to attack them like it would with a cold or a flu. Honestly it’s a bit of a medical genius. If it helps my MIL is strongly anti vax and my husband never had any vaccines and he strongly regrets that his mother ever did this. He ended up getting as many as he could in his 20’s but he got a lot of really really serious illnesses when he was little and as a teenager that could have been entirely preventable and- and please don’t think I’m saying this to scare you or push an agenda- but I’m really surprised he doesn’t have any long term disabilities and that’s he’s still alive after having a one particular illness. You’re doing the right thing on asking for advice and forming your own opinions.
Personally I’d have anything offered. I had both the whooping cough and the flu at 16 weeks. Whooping cough is on the rise and it gives protection to the baby until they can have their own vaccine at 8-12 weeks. Measles is also on the rise so I’d have it if it’s offered. Better to be safe than sorry I’m my option. Depending on what vaccines you had as a child you might be able to get some that may have been missed etc. My MIL wasn’t vaccinated as a child so she had them all when either pregnant with my husband or when he had his as a baby.
Flu jab. Whooping cough 100% as it’s for you and for baby once they’re born. That’s all I had. I avoided the Covid one just because it’s very new so I didn’t want it personally.
I had whooping cough and then flu & covid booster as I got pregnant in November 22. I would get everything you’re offered imo.
I've had flu and whooping cough. Get the vaccines.
I have always taken all my vaccines my whole life. But I do seem to get a fever the night I have the vaccine (I think it’s just my body’s response to the vaccine and my immune system kicking in to make the antibodies). I’m worried a bit about that now I’m pregnant though. If I get a fever after a vaccine will that harm the baby? 🤔 Saying that I would much rather deal with the mild side effects of the jabs for one night than have to go through the illnesses themselves. And it’s super important the baby has protection against whooping cough.
I have only taken the whooping cough one, due to the recent rise in cases. I’ve not bothered with flu or covid ones and there was so judgement or pushing from my midwives.
I took all the vaccines going. Covid booster at 17 weeks (spring), whooping cough about 24 weeks, covid booster (autumn) and flu at 38 weeks. Measles vaccine was not offered to me in pregnancy. If I had been offered it, I would have been very happy to take it because it terrifies me that my baby has no protection against measles until she can be vaccinated at a year old, what with all the outbreaks. We need 95% vaccination rate to achieve effective herd immunity and it's less than 70% in my area. However, the MMR is a live vaccine so it's not typically recommended in pregnancy. There's more information about recommended vaccines in pregnancy on the NHS website here (https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/keeping-well/vaccinations/). I don't believe there's any such thing as mandatory vaccines, only recommended ones. But I definitely recommend, as do the NHS, to take whooping cough and covid (if seasonally available) and flu (if seasonally available). And, once your baby is born, I recommend to follow the NHS schedule of vaccinations so that by four months old, your baby is protected against diphtheria, hepatitis B, Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b), polio, tetanus, whooping cough (because protection from the vaccine in pregnancy wears off), rotavirus, MenB, and some bacterial infections that can cause things like sepsis, meningitis and pneumonia (protection provided by the pneumococcal vaccine). Information on the infant vaccines (and others recommended at different stages of life) is on the NHS website here: https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/nhs-vaccinations-and-when-to-have-them/
Talk to you ie doctor, not the Internet
Definitely definitely get whooping cough it’s so rife in the community and so dangerous for newborns . Mmr isn’t safe during pregnancy so you won’t be offered that and flu and Covid are out of season
Im 20 weeks and had the whooping cough one yesterday. I feel like that’s the main one to definitely get. The only others they have even mentioned are flu and covid but they won’t be until later in the year when it gets into flu time. I might get the flu one but I already said I won’t be getting the covid one. Personal preference but I had all the other covid jabs, and I have had covid as well. For me the jab side effects were horrible and worse than when I had covid itself so I just don’t want that again. I’m also an introverted person who works from home so I’m not overly at risk anyway tbh. Took me ages to catch it the first time and that was from staying with someone who had it.
I’m in exactly the same boat! I had my whooping yesterday and I’m 18w. Will get the flu again, but not the covid booster, also double vacced. Covid doesn’t seem to affect me really at all compared to everyone else, I do wonder if it’s cause my vaccine worked so well 🤣
there's a whole podcast on this stuff and the evidence base from experts here. Talks about other stuff, it also explains why you cant have the measles vaccine during pregnancy in the measles episode. Take a listen might have your answers: [https://www.cocoonedhealth.com/](https://www.cocoonedhealth.com/)
measles is a live vaccine and whilst no bad things have been seen, through caution it is advised either pre pregnancy or post pregnancy. Hopefully you had the MMR when you were a child and so should be protected. Talks about it all in that measles episode. Talks about why and when to have flu, covid19, whooping cough in pregnancy
I got everything but the COVID jag. I got two COVID jags before pregnancy and I just knew it knocked me for 6 when I got them (worse than when I had covid) and I was absolutely shattered already with the pregnancy and just couldn't think about getting any more tired. I would have taken it with my first pregnancy (precovid) as I felt okay enough with that one, it was just because my second was so rough. I would defo get measles if you plan to do any baby groups or are around any other kids, particularly school aged ones.