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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.

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The bivalent booster isn’t the end all be all, but we have good data that previous vaccines have given some immunity to babies up to six months when pregnant people get vaccinated. Breastfeeding also provides some benefits. But yeah, mask indoors in crowded places - that hasn’t changed. The newer variants continue to be very contagious. Vaccines continue to prevent severe illness and death - you’re also less likely to get it and less likely to transmit it and you’ll likely be contagious for a shorter duration of time. [/quote]

This study https://hms.harvard.edu/news/infants-covid-antibodies which was not on the booster that is being discussed but rather on the original vaccine showed that 57% of babies whose mothers' were vaccinated in the third trimester had detectable antibodies at 6 months. That's not all or even most babies. And even if you are vaccinated, being pregnant or having recently been pregnant makes you almost twice as likely to get COVID: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/03/31/pregnancy-covid-risk/

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