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[quote=Anonymous]I chose to get pregnant while vaccinated.

I think what you need to remember is that NOTHING is 100% safe. Aiming for 0% risk is both impossible and illogical, because NOT getting the vaccine isn't 100% safe either!

The vaccine is very, very safe. But no one can tell you there is 0% risk. EVERYTHING has some small level of risk. Your house could be hit by a meteor with you just sitting there. The level of risk of the vaccine is vanishingly small, but it does exist.

However - NOT getting the vaccine is far from 100% safe. You're introducing a few risks:

1) The mental, emotional, and social risks to continuing to isolate to an extreme degree, for you, your husband and both your children. This is a real danger.
2) The (admittedly vanishingly small) risk that even with your level of isolation, you do end up getting covid. Like you said, variants are happening. What if one becomes surface transmittable and your three year old picks it up on the playground and gives it to you? Unlikely, yes, but not 0% risk. 
3) The risk to you and, especially, your newborn of getting covid when in the hospital giving birth. Honestly, this is the one that pushed me over to getting the vaccine. The most dangerous time to get covid for all children (everyone under age 18) is ages 0-2 months old. If you get vaccinated now, your baby will have some immunity. There are very real, documented risks to newborn from getting covid. Plus, there are unknowns here as well - what if getting covid while pregnant or as a newborn negatively impacts your kid later in life? This is MUCH more likely than long term effects from the vaccine.

The risk of the vaccine is so small, it's hard to quantify. Probably the same for number 2. Number 1 is just generally tough to quantify (you can't really put numbers on "social health") though I think it is real and likely significantly bigger than the risk of the vaccine. But number 3? That's the biggie. That is a real, quantifiable risk to you, and particularly, to your baby. Don't risk it! Get the vaccine![/quote]

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