I hate that im forced into getting the vaccine. I'm pregnant and work is about to give me the boot if I don't have it. I've had the first and didn't know I was pregnant. I would of only been 2 weeks. I'm due for my second one in 2 weeks after putting it back.
Has any one had the Vax while being pregnant? Were you worried?
My work colleague had both and her baby is fine (due in a month) and my partners colleagues had theirs. One baby was born 2 weeks ago and fine. But it's just not sitting right with me. I've never been good at following my gut and the one time I want to im actually not really aloud to or I loose my job and my kids won't be able to eat.
Please tell me it will all be okay.
Thank you lovely ladies
Pfizer and pregnant
Pfizer and pregnant
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If you get Covid you’re putting you and baby at higher risk of death! It doesn’t effect pregnancy!
I had mine and have a perfectly healthy baby girl that is now 3 weeks old. But you have to do what feels right for you - get the facts from your dr, both the pros and the cons, and then make the decision you’re comfortable with
You will be fine. Why not find out the studies done on pregnant women. Or speak to a doctor or midwife. Don't trust your gut here, people are educated in this, it's not a gut feeling, it's information, risk assessment and decision making. Get informed and your gut might change too.
Yes family and friends have all had it preg and all good.
People like you are the reason borders might not open at Christmas and I may not get to see my family. Grandparents not seeing grandkids, sick family members in hospital alone, the tourism industry where I live dying from no tourists and if we don’t reach the targets, we may not open this year. Jesus, you’ve had MONTHS to get vaccinated, why are you just doing it now? I’m sure your workplace didn’t just spring this on you, I’m sure it’s been on the cards for a while. Look at the bigger picture, your baby won’t be able to be vaccinated, wouldn’t it be beneficial if everyone in the community is, in order to protect your newborn baby? To protect the elderly, the immunosuppressed, the disabled, the vulnerable in our community who can’t be vaccinated. I was sympathetic to the pregnant women on here a while back, but not now, those who haven’t been vaxed by now are plain selfish. The risk to you and your unborn child is real if you catch this thing, the medical staff did a big spiel about it a few months ago.
Lol who cares about your family and the borders 😂 keep them out to keep us safe.
Livelihoods going down the drain, people unable to be with loved ones dying, weddings, nursing homes banning visitors, families unable to pay rent, businesses going bust, what funny emoji do you have for that? Such a compassionate soul, glad it is a joke to you.
Sorry were you being sarcastic lol ?
If you were, sorry, if not, I stand by my post.
In fairness, it hasn't been available to everyone for months. Depends on your medical history, age, state etc. Your comment is pretty judgey.
To the OP, the Australian health department notes you won't lose your job if you're exempt. That doesn't count conscientious objectors, but it can include temporary exemptions. Generally speaking, pregnant women are considered a priority demographic, but consult your doctor if you think something in your medical history combined with pregnancy means you should be exempt.
The only thing I would caution is that international borders will open soon and that will place you at risk. So professional advice on the higher risk for you and bubs is very important to obtain.
Oh... And I should add, many employers are springing this on people. 2 weeks ago NT made a sweeping decision with minimal notice. My colleagues in NT are required to be vaccinated from next week where as the rest of my national organisation of several hundred thousand people doesn't need to be.
I have family in NSW, VIC and I’m in regional QLD and it’s been available for months in all those states.
With state and international borders opening, she would have to be crazy not to get it.
There’s a reason pregnant women are a priority, because they need the most protection.
It’s a shame she waited this long and has this dilemma.
I’ve got my kids done, made sure mum and dad are done, because it’s coming.
I believe you about the employers though, the landscape is changing every day and companies are making some tough decisions to protect their workers, customers and their businesses.
Has the op considered what would happen to her workplace if she was to contract Covid?
Loss of wages, income, putting the children of her coworkers at risk etc.
No need to be awful though. She's scared. Direct her to her doctor for a conversation rather than berating her.
I’m sorry, you’re probably right, I just cant believe the level of selfishness of people.
Covid has really highlighted the fact that people don’t think about their community anymore, their neighbours, it’s just about them and their own little circle.
This disease is so far reaching, in the early days, one infected person shut down a whole workplace, the immediate contacts, kid’s schools shut down, one may have visited nana at nursing home, now nursing home at risk. However, now, with the vax, towns, cities, workplaces, schools won’t have to be shut down, we will be able to live with it.
How can people even enter their workplace unvaxxed now and not worry about their coworkers and their families, the business etc.and what’s at risk? With the vax, you are much less contagious. How can they, in good conscience keep living their lives, potentially infecting others? I just don’t get the mentality.
I also want to add that the governments have really come through, making the vax available everywhere.
We’ve had them at Bunnings, schools, beach, convention centre, university to just name a few, plus no appointment required. They’ve even been door knocking in the indigenous areas, literally going to the people. There’s just no excuse in my book to have not done it.
The OP isn't irresponsible though. She got her first vaccination. She's just nervous about the 2nd now she knows she is pregnant. Surely that's understandable. She just needs to talk to her doctor for reassurance and to double check it isn't contraindicated for her
I only just had my first one too. I'm in WA where we haven't had as many vaccines available as other states so the wait time has been ridiculous, even open clinics you had to expect to wait half a day. It's only been sped up the last month or so. Add to that I'm an hour away from the nearest town that does it, I also work 7 days a week in my own business. My husband only decided to have it last week after his boss told him he had to, otherwise he wouldn't have bothered. Each to their own. We have had no rush to get it since our lives have never been affected by covid, we have never been in lock down and never had to wear a mask, never known anyone with it, it's literally just something we hear or read about. It just feels like theres no rush, but with borders opening in WA early next year we want to be prepared.
I'm okay jack mentality.
There's situations where I wholeheartedly support blindly following your intuition or "gut feelings".
Making an important medical decision is not one of those situations. This is a choice you need to make based off fact, logic and solid reasoning, not based off a primal urge. Let your brain take the reigns on this one!
This question was recently asked . Scroll back a bit and read the answers there too. My daughter got AZ wen she was pregnant her son is normal, happy and healthy.
It's your body so choose what you want to do. With choices comes consequences tho. Good or bad. So choose what you value more .
You're early stages of pregnancy right? That would make you due around August next year.
By then, things are going to have to be returned to normal. People are going to be able to travel interstate freely, people are probably going to be able to come in and out of the country freely.
Right now you're protected by social distancing, border restrictions and herd immunity, but as things open up, the more the risk to yourself and bub is heightened.
If the vaccine is so safe and the affects of covid so dangerous to an unborn baby, then why can't under 12s be vaccinated? Legit question for all the professionals here.
There are trials currently underway for children under 12. It's not like they were going to start initial trials with the least at risk demographic. There is also evidence showing that a vaccinated mother can pass on antibodies to their unborn baby
How long do the antibodies last? Then they're unprotected.
That's an interesting and valid question that I did not have the answer to. I have come accross this article saying that antibodies are also passed through breast milk and it is saying that baby will have immunity if the vaccine is given to mother during pregnancy or lactation/breastfeeding
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/study-shows-covid-19-vacc...