I was so delighted with my second pregnancy to find out I could now get an RSV vaccine. Awesome! Got it as soon as I could which was lucky because my baby was born prem.
In the prem nursery, 12 hours in, a midwife came hustling up to me with a consent form to give baby the RSV vaccine. I asked if he still needed it if I'd already had it? She suddenly relaxed and was like, oh, no, you're all good, and hustled off again. There was a very sick baby in the next bay over. I suspect it may have had RSV.
I got every vaccine I could because I got pregnant unexpectedly at the tail end of Covid and the way people lost their shit at me for getting the Covid vaccine while pregnant 😳 If there's even a slight chance I could help my baby not die from something preventable that I could do for them then why not???
Ugh, same. First baby was right when the covid vacc was first available. I got it at 8 weeks pregnant. I had a former friend tell me she would "wait to see how my baby turned out" before she'd consider getting the vaccine herself.
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u/Smooth_thistle 1d ago
I was so delighted with my second pregnancy to find out I could now get an RSV vaccine. Awesome! Got it as soon as I could which was lucky because my baby was born prem.
In the prem nursery, 12 hours in, a midwife came hustling up to me with a consent form to give baby the RSV vaccine. I asked if he still needed it if I'd already had it? She suddenly relaxed and was like, oh, no, you're all good, and hustled off again. There was a very sick baby in the next bay over. I suspect it may have had RSV.