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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I completely understand your fears! I was in your shoes until today- I just had my first Pfizer shot at 22 weeks. I also went through the same cycle of wanting to be protected but fearing the lack of data for long-term effects for the baby. I chose to wait until the second trimester because my first trimester was difficult, had to take a lot of medication and I was on bed rest, so I was very worried with respect to the anomaly scan and when doctors confirmed that everything looked normal, I started gathering data on covid-19 vaccination in pregnancy.

There are very recent studies showing its safety and effectiveness in pregnancy (just today- a study on pregnant women who took covid-19 vaccine in Israel- published in JAMA). My obstetrician and GP both recommended the vaccine and  I have a lot of obstetrician friends in the UK and France who also strongly recommended it. According to my friends, those who are currently in intensive care battling with their lives are pregnant women who refused to take the vaccine. With the mask mandate being lifted and life going back to normal, it will be extremely difficult to control your exposure to the virus.

The constant fear of catching the virus and all the rational points raised by previous posts about hospital delivery, pediatrician visits, and most importantly the risk that COVID-19 poses to your life and that of your unborn child were more than enough for me to strengthen my decision to take it.

I hope you will be able to let go of the anxiety, I know I feel much better now that I have taken my first shot. And as another previous post said, there are millions of pregnant women who have been now vaccinated. If there were to be a major side effect for the mother or the developing fetus, it would have been flagged by now.

I hope this helps.[/quote]

OP here thank you this helps and I’ve also been researching what other countries are doing. I’ll check out the new Israel study.

I have my OB visit next week and then right after the next day  I’ll have my anatomy scan so hoping that makes it easier for me to book the appointment.

Will you be getting the second shot on schedule? [/quote]

It's always good to see what other countries are doing- I know the UK and France at first only gave the vaccine to pregnant women who had comorbidities or were at increased risk being front line workers, but since April, they have recommended it to all pregnant women because even healthy, low-risk pregnant women were doing badly with COVID. The WHO changed their recommendation as well to offer vaccination to all pregnant women. I also know that Sri Lanka and Lebanon have started vaccinating all pregnant women too with mRNA vaccines, so I am sure,, by now, there are millions of pregnant women who have taken the vaccine. 
I woke up today with a slightly sore arm, and thankfully did not have any side effects! I feel energetic and good following my first shot yesterday. I will get the second shot on schedule, as I prefer to enter my third trimester with full protection, since , as others have mentioned, it's better not to catch covid-19 in all trimesters of course, but particularly in the third, as studies found that majority of women who have become severely ill from cover-19 were in their third trimester of pregnancy (possibly due to reduced respiratory capacity and immune changes). I completely understand you, we are living in very difficult times and it is hard for pregnant women to make decisions when then there is a life inside you that you need to protect. I hope all goes well for your anatomy scan, and hopefully that will put your mind at ease to take the vaccine, as the baby would be fully developed by then and will just grow in size after that. [/quote]

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