Bivalent Covid Booster During Pregnancy

[Anonymous]

Getting vaxed helps, but the reality is that if you are pregnant you are more likely to get COVID and more likely to get sick from COVID: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/pregnant-people.html

[Anonymous]

I just got it at 34 weeks and had no side effects other than sore arm. I haven't had side effects from any of my Covid shots/boosters though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Risk of covid is greater than risk of vaccine (there's good evidence covid can harm the placenta and lead to clotting issues) so asap.

That is the correct answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Risk of covid is greater than risk of vaccine (there's good evidence covid can harm the placenta and lead to clotting issues) so asap.

There's zero studies of 5, 10, 20 year olds whose mothers were vaccinated while pregnant with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Risk of covid is greater than risk of vaccine (there's good evidence covid can harm the placenta and lead to clotting issues) so asap.

There's zero studies of 5, 10, 20 year olds whose mothers were vaccinated while pregnant with them.

And there won't be studies of 5, 10, 20 year olds whose mom's died of covid or had miscarriages or stillbirths related to the infection. You do the best with the evidence you have and right now the evidence is that covid is more of a risk during pregnancy than the covid vaccine is, and that boosted people are less likely than unboosted to be hospitalized or die.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Risk of covid is greater than risk of vaccine (there's good evidence covid can harm the placenta and lead to clotting issues) so asap.

There's zero studies of 5, 10, 20 year olds whose mothers were vaccinated while pregnant with them.

And there won't be studies of 5, 10, 20 year olds whose mom's died of covid or had miscarriages or stillbirths related to the infection. You do the best with the evidence you have and right now the evidence is that covid is more of a risk during pregnancy than the covid vaccine is, and that boosted people are less likely than unboosted to be hospitalized or die.

+1 I got a monovalient booster last fall during my third trimester (with TDAP and flu shots). We all (baby, older sibling, me, and my mother who was helping out) got Covid within month of birth. Baby was the only one with no symptoms, which might or might not have been the vaccine but was still a huge relief to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got it too and I am baby am fine.

hmmmm

Bahahaha you beat me to it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 22 weeks, thinking of waiting a few more weeks to get it. I probably would not wait except that I did get COVID about 3 months ago (ugh). So I'm thinking of waiting until closer to the 28 mark, which is the ideal window for TDAP (passing some protection to the baby) and probably as good as guess as any for COVID timing.

If I were in the third trimester I'd get it ASAP.

It’s minimal protection and only a few weeks. Don’t fool yourself into thinking baby is protected until 6 months. The world has gone back to normal so to protect your child you need to curtail your social life. I did that when I was pregnant with my second during COVID and post-birth. I have a ton of pregnant friends who are flying across the country for weddings and reunions and they are getting COVID. I feel bad for them, but I don’t understand why they thought their decisions didn’t carry risk.

Not everyone can eliminate their exposure to the virus by curtailing their social life. Work and school for other children can mean a lot of exposure. However, it’s easy to provide some protection to my unborn child by getting the COVID booster and a flu shot and I absolutely plan to do so.

[Anonymous]

You should trust the government and just do it.They are telling you it’s safe. You owe it to others around you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 22 weeks, thinking of waiting a few more weeks to get it. I probably would not wait except that I did get COVID about 3 months ago (ugh). So I'm thinking of waiting until closer to the 28 mark, which is the ideal window for TDAP (passing some protection to the baby) and probably as good as guess as any for COVID timing.

If I were in the third trimester I'd get it ASAP.

It’s minimal protection and only a few weeks. Don’t fool yourself into thinking baby is protected until 6 months. The world has gone back to normal so to protect your child you need to curtail your social life. I did that when I was pregnant with my second during COVID and post-birth. I have a ton of pregnant friends who are flying across the country for weddings and reunions and they are getting COVID. I feel bad for them, but I don’t understand why they thought their decisions didn’t carry risk.

All of a sudden, people here think they are a nurse on “Call the Midwives”.

[Anonymous]

I just got it last week at 33w and no side effects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 22 weeks, thinking of waiting a few more weeks to get it. I probably would not wait except that I did get COVID about 3 months ago (ugh). So I'm thinking of waiting until closer to the 28 mark, which is the ideal window for TDAP (passing some protection to the baby) and probably as good as guess as any for COVID timing.

If I were in the third trimester I'd get it ASAP.

It’s minimal protection and only a few weeks. Don’t fool yourself into thinking baby is protected until 6 months. The world has gone back to normal so to protect your child you need to curtail your social life. I did that when I was pregnant with my second during COVID and post-birth. I have a ton of pregnant friends who are flying across the country for weddings and reunions and they are getting COVID. I feel bad for them, but I don’t understand why they thought their decisions didn’t carry risk.

Not everyone can eliminate their exposure to the virus by curtailing their social life. Work and school for other children can mean a lot of exposure. However, it’s easy to provide some protection to my unborn child by getting the COVID booster and a flu shot and I absolutely plan to do so.

If you look at what I bolded in the post, you'll see that I wasn't referring to work and school. I don't consider going into an office or children attending school to be "social life." By social life I was referring to flying across the country and attending weddings and other social events. My point is when you get COVID from going to a friend's wedding while you're pregnant, that's an unforced error.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 22 weeks, thinking of waiting a few more weeks to get it. I probably would not wait except that I did get COVID about 3 months ago (ugh). So I'm thinking of waiting until closer to the 28 mark, which is the ideal window for TDAP (passing some protection to the baby) and probably as good as guess as any for COVID timing.

If I were in the third trimester I'd get it ASAP.

It’s minimal protection and only a few weeks. Don’t fool yourself into thinking baby is protected until 6 months. The world has gone back to normal so to protect your child you need to curtail your social life. I did that when I was pregnant with my second during COVID and post-birth. I have a ton of pregnant friends who are flying across the country for weddings and reunions and they are getting COVID. I feel bad for them, but I don’t understand why they thought their decisions didn’t carry risk.

All of a sudden, people here think they are a nurse on “Call the Midwives”.

Huh?

Where's the study that says the bivalent booster if given in the third trimester protects babies for 6 months? This study https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2788986 which was done using the original vaccine shows that 57% of babies whose mothers were vaccinated in the third trimester had detectable antibodies at 6 months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 22 weeks, thinking of waiting a few more weeks to get it. I probably would not wait except that I did get COVID about 3 months ago (ugh). So I'm thinking of waiting until closer to the 28 mark, which is the ideal window for TDAP (passing some protection to the baby) and probably as good as guess as any for COVID timing.

If I were in the third trimester I'd get it ASAP.

It’s minimal protection and only a few weeks. Don’t fool yourself into thinking baby is protected until 6 months. The world has gone back to normal so to protect your child you need to curtail your social life. I did that when I was pregnant with my second during COVID and post-birth. I have a ton of pregnant friends who are flying across the country for weddings and reunions and they are getting COVID. I feel bad for them, but I don’t understand why they thought their decisions didn’t carry risk.

Not everyone can eliminate their exposure to the virus by curtailing their social life. Work and school for other children can mean a lot of exposure. However, it’s easy to provide some protection to my unborn child by getting the COVID booster and a flu shot and I absolutely plan to do so.

If you look at what I bolded in the post, you'll see that I wasn't referring to work and school. I don't consider going into an office or children attending school to be "social life." By social life I was referring to flying across the country and attending weddings and other social events. My point is when you get COVID from going to a friend's wedding while you're pregnant, that's an unforced error.

I did struggle a bit to understand your intent and obviously I understand that there are many choices people can make with respect to COVID exposure and protection. I had commented about passing some protection to the baby by getting the booster; I took your comment to be dismissive of the value of said booster.

[Anonymous]

No idea. What are our peer countries doing?