DTAP Vaccine

[roamet]

I am 28 weeks pregnant with twins - my first pregnancy. I have a checkup next week and I believe this is when my Dr. wants me to get the DTAP vaccine. Let me upfront that I am one of those people that does google searches on medical issues which I have come to learn is the pathway to madness. I've been good about it during the pregnancy but made the mistake of looking up ingredients and warning of vaccine.

My husband an I are discussing if I should get it now or after they are born. I know there is a rise in whooping cough.

Here are some questions, especially for folks who have gotten it and have toddlers now, but everyone's input welcome.

1. Is DMV area an area that has seen the rise in whooping cough?
2. I know they give the DTAP vaccines to infants 2 months on and the theory is my antibodies will help with increased immunity during that lag time between brith and first DTAP.. Are there any concerns with it being more harmful to them while in-eutro. Has anyone had it impact the babies negatively while pregnant? There is a part of me that thinks it is actually safer as I will get the aluminum deposited in my organs and they will only get the antibodies from me. But I am not a scientist and don't know if my assumption is technically correct. Or does aluminum cross the barrier and since they are developing still make them vulnerable? Or is it actually too much of a stressor on them from the immune reaction to vaccine while still in-eutro. Some of the posts say their little brains and liver can't handle the immune response from me at this time much less for themselves. But again, those aren't from vigorous studies but certain enough to cause me anxiety as I type this at 1:15 AM.

It is so difficult making all these choices for them already. And they haven't even technically arrived. YIKES.

Thank you all in advance for your input. I know this whole vaccine issue is a bit controversial. My concern isn't about vaccines overall rather about getting them while pregnant. I didn't get the flu vaccine as I got pregnant after the flu run was done and my OB didn't feel it was necessary. So I didn't have to deal with this issue of vaccines during pregnancy until now.

[Anonymous]

roamet wrote:I am 28 weeks pregnant with twins - my first pregnancy. I have a checkup next week and I believe this is when my Dr. wants me to get the DTAP vaccine. Let me upfront that I am one of those people that does google searches on medical issues which I have come to learn is the pathway to madness. I've been good about it during the pregnancy but made the mistake of looking up ingredients and warning of vaccine.

My husband an I are discussing if I should get it now or after they are born. I know there is a rise in whooping cough.

Here are some questions, especially for folks who have gotten it and have toddlers now, but everyone's input welcome.

1. Is DMV area an area that has seen the rise in whooping cough?
2. I know they give the DTAP vaccines to infants 2 months on and the theory is my antibodies will help with increased immunity during that lag time between brith and first DTAP.. Are there any concerns with it being more harmful to them while in-eutro. Has anyone had it impact the babies negatively while pregnant? There is a part of me that thinks it is actually safer as I will get the aluminum deposited in my organs and they will only get the antibodies from me. But I am not a scientist and don't know if my assumption is technically correct. Or does aluminum cross the barrier and since they are developing still make them vulnerable? Or is it actually too much of a stressor on them from the immune reaction to vaccine while still in-eutro. Some of the posts say their little brains and liver can't handle the immune response from me at this time much less for themselves. But again, those aren't from vigorous studies but certain enough to cause me anxiety as I type this at 1:15 AM.

It is so difficult making all these choices for them already. And they haven't even technically arrived. YIKES.

Thank you all in advance for your input. I know this whole vaccine issue is a bit controversial. My concern isn't about vaccines overall rather about getting them while pregnant. I didn't get the flu vaccine as I got pregnant after the flu run was done and my OB didn't feel it was necessary. So I didn't have to deal with this issue of vaccines during pregnancy until now.

I would get it now. Whooping cough can kill a newborn. Stop googling. Ask your OB these questions.

[Anonymous]

Get the vaccine. If it helps, I got my TDAP around the same time- no adverse effects. Everything was fine.

[Anonymous]

Op, your doctor does no better than anonymous strangers on the internet. You need to ask your doctor these questions. There is decades of research documenting the safety of vaccines even for pregnant women.

The DMV isn’t hermetically sealed. People travel in and out of the area all the time. Are outbreaks common, no. That doesn’t mean they won’t happen. A newborn is too young to be vaccinated and are most at risk. Sometimes a baby can still die from whooping cough even if the mom’s vaccinated. But why even consider putting your baby at unnecessary risk by not getting vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

You are super overthinking this. Get the vaccine now.

[Anonymous]

Will you be home with the babies for the first few months? Will visitors have the vaccine?
If you are worried about yourself getting a shot, how will you feel about your babies getting 5 shots at once?

[Anonymous]

Whooping cough almost killed my mother when she was five. She missed almost the entire year of kindergarten. Theo was before there was a vaccine. Please get the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Get the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

You should get it now.

The vaccine (which you get ONE TIME during pregnancy) contains 0.33 – 0.39 milligrams of aluminum. Adults typically ingest 7-9 milligrams of aluminum PER DAY.

https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-ingredients/aluminum

[Anonymous]

GET THE VACCINE NOW. If you wait, you are PUtting them at risk. Your husband needs to get it too. Adults can pass pertussis to your Babies even if they have no symptoms. Pertussis kills babies.

[Anonymous]

P.s. vaccines are only controversial for people who think Jenny McCarthy is just as credible as every major medical group, thr CDC and the March of Dimes. They are one of the greatest achievements in public health and save lives.

[Anonymous]

OP, why do you trust the words of anonymous strangers on the internet over your doctor?

But since you do: get the vaccine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZrMGDMMw

http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-whooping-cough-20170814-story.html

[Anonymous]

You could get it the day they are born and be ok I’m sure.

[Anonymous]

Just to add to what everyone already said, my OB practice would drop you if you didn’t get the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could get it the day they are born and be ok I’m sure.

No, the point is to get it during pregnancy, so that you pass the antibodies on to the baby, so that the baby has antibodies when it is born. That doesn't work if you do it after the baby is born.