s/o pregnant and scared to get vaccinated, alternatives or compromises?

[Anonymous]

For me, the options were:

1. Get Vaccinated
2. Don't Get Vaccinated and know I might get COVID, no matter what I do to avoid it.

There were no compromises in my mind. Staying home / social distancing / etc. meant nothing to me since I'm going to the doctor every 4 weeks and know that I might get exposed, especially with the low vax numbers in pregnant women (who are in the waiting room/ seeing the same staff).

I trust vaccines, medicine, and the process that went into developing this. My father is a physician and walked me through how mRNA vaccines work so I felt comfortable getting it.

I then read stories like this and know that no matter what happens in 10 years, I did what was right for today.

https://mississippitoday.org/2021/08/12/covid-mississippi-gulf-coast-hospitals/

"Dobbs said the state reported 36 deaths on Monday due to COVID-19 or complications from the virus. Eleven of those deaths were of people under 50, he said. Three of them were in their 20s. Two were pregnant women. All were unvaccinated.

Bond said that in his hospital system, a woman who was 34-weeks pregnant and lost her baby while in the hospital with the virus. There is a 27-year-old patient with the virus who just gave birth but has only Facetimed with her baby.

“She made it to the floor, out of the ICU, but yesterday we had to put her back on the vent,” Bond said. “I don’t know if she will ever get to see her baby or not.”

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Yes this was in a low vaccination state, but with the way variants are spreading, this could be the northeast in just a month or two. I'm risk averse and the risk of getting COVID outweighed any potential risk with the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So you got pregnant in March? Why didn't you get vaccinated before getting pregnant?

In March only high risk people and certain professions were eligible.

You couldn't wait a month or two? So selfish and stupid. And I am someone who needed fertility treatments to get pregnant so don't even go there.

Gross, PP.
I was pregnant in March (second tri) and got vaccinated then. DC considered pregnant people part of the high risk category.
I got vaccinated because I was nervous about catching COVID at the hospital. I had a high risk pregnancy (twins) and spent a lot of time at Washington Hospital Center due to my various appointments and ultrasounds. I WFH, we kept our older child in virtual school for the year, I didn’t have any other real risk factors other than the amount of time I was spending in WHC. I was afraid I’d catch COVID and end up on a ventilator, having an emergency c section. I also did NOT want to risk having severe side effects (fever, fatigue) from the vaccine when I had newborns to take care of. Both my OB and MFM were explicit that I should get vaccinated as soon as possible.
I got my first dose of Moderna in the second trimester and my second at the beginning of the third. I had zero side effects other than a sore arm both times. My twins are healthy, happy two month olds now and I felt much safer during my hospital stay knowing we all had COVID antibodies.

Actually what's gross is knowingly putting your unborn baby, self and larger society at risk because of your selfishness.
I have zero patience for anti-vaxxers. If they don't want to be called out they should stfu.

Anti-vaxxers? Being skeptical of one vaccine that is new does not make someone anti-vaxx.

That's the thing though, you people are all the same to us. I don't care about your reasons for not getting it. Refusing to get it is refusing to get it. You're anti-vaxx, end of story. If you want to take this position you better figure out how to own it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, ignore these cruel comments. Most of them probably aren’t in the situation that you are in. It is completely normal to fear the safety of your child with either decision. It’s not easy. Do what you think feels right for your baby. Stop being nasty, people.

Alternatively, do what the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine strongly advise, namely: get vaccinated.

https://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2021/07/acog-smfm-recommend-covid-19-vaccination-for-pregnant-individuals

[Anonymous]

OP, I understand that there is some risk in the sense that we don't have data on the long-term effects yet. But, we all have to make the best decisions we can with the information available to us at the time. The information available now provides no support for the idea that there will be negative long-term effects from the vaccine, and provides TONS of support for the risks of not getting it - premature labor, organ failure, long covid, etc. Not to mention the risks to your baby if you pass it to him/her.

I'm not saying there is zero risk to getting the vaccine. But it's the outside risk of some potential long-term vaccine side-effect that has somehow lain dormant so far, vs. the very real risk of getting COVID during pregnancy. I don't understand how you could weigh those two against each other and come out where you are, I just don't.

[Anonymous]

My friend’s friend went into labor at 36 weeks then tested positive at the hospital. Baby went to NICU and they wouldn’t let either parent see the baby. I’d just get the vaccine. (And I did, I have a newborn now.)

[Anonymous]

Get the vaccine. Stat.

[Anonymous]

My friend who was vaccinated just got Delta from an unvaccinated new mother during a newborn photo shoot. The baby is in the ICU. This is just irresponsible and unfair.

[Anonymous]

My niece is a nurse practitioner on an OB Ward out of state. Right now she has 7 pregnant women in the ICU. Three are on vents. None were vaccinated. All young and previously healthy. No other medical conditions. They are delivering one of the babies today at 31 weeks. Mom is not expected to survive. My niece is also five months pregnant with her second. And of course, fully vaccinated.

Don’t be stupid. Get the fing vaccine.

[Anonymous]

My doctor put me on weekly prophylactic Hydroxychloroquine and I take 5000 iu vitamin D daily. We also are mostly at home and not in high risk environments. N95 masks (the good ones) are available on Amazon for when I am at the doctor’s office, although they aren’t super easy to breathe in.

Good luck with your decision either way. It isn’t easy!

If you get sick, please seek early treatment. Many hospitals are providing palliative care only (!)

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Anonymous wrote:Also you may want to find a good therapist. It’s common for moms whose babies end up in the NICU to blame themselves even when there is no way they could have prevented it. In your case, we’ll, it would be your fault so you’ll need even more help dealing with feelings of guilt and remorse.

OP here my first born had to have antibiotics and was in NICU a few days because of an infection we both had. I blame myself and I’m still dealing with those feeling of remorse and what I could have done differently at the end of the pregnancy. As you’ll see many studies have since come out that neonatal antibiotics use have all kind of issues including diminished growth and severe allergies which my son is dealing with still.

I’d deal with more feeling of remorse if I got the vaccine and my second was born with irreversible heart defect or kidney defect or possibly something else. Hence me trying to figure out an alternative path that protects him.

Are you a troll?

[Anonymous]

Op, please don't let your child and/or you become an example of natural selection.

Get vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop being stupid and get vaccinated.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Also you may want to find a good therapist. It’s common for moms whose babies end up in the NICU to blame themselves even when there is no way they could have prevented it. In your case, we’ll, it would be your fault so you’ll need even more help dealing with feelings of guilt and remorse.

OP here my first born had to have antibiotics and was in NICU a few days because of an infection we both had. I blame myself and I’m still dealing with those feeling of remorse and what I could have done differently at the end of the pregnancy. As you’ll see many studies have since come out that neonatal antibiotics use have all kind of issues including diminished growth and severe allergies which my son is dealing with still.

I’d deal with more feeling of remorse if I got the vaccine and my second was born with irreversible heart defect or kidney defect or possibly something else. Hence me trying to figure out an alternative path that protects him.

Are you a troll?

OP here I wish I was then I would be dealing with anxiety and constantly thinking “what if” I emailed my OB in DC as well from my first pregnancy to ask her about the long term implications. I’m sharing some of the updates with my husband too.

And to the other poster, no way am I taking a high dose of vitamin D or the hydro drug, I really am serious about controlling what I can during pregnancy. I am surprised that the posters that got vaccinated were more stressed about this decision. How is it to have a clear head and make a decision and move on? You never wondered something could go horribly wrong?

[Anonymous]

OP here ahhh so many typos my minds not right today, sigh.

[Anonymous]

Don't be this woman OP.


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