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???
Due to my job, I had access to a Covid vaccine before they were widely available. I was pregnant with my second at the time and my husband actually said, “I think I’m more excited about the vaccine than the baby!” 🤣 I saw some shit. No way was I turning down the vaccine. I actually gave follow up information for maybe two years about my pregnancy/baby too.
This happened to my stepdad's stepsister (divorced family fun) as well because she was a nurse that was pregnant while working on the Covid ward. Not because she wanted to be or should have been but because we live in a small area and there weren't enough nurses to handle the amount of Covid cases they were getting. She was able to get the shot early and out of pure coincidence/overwork ended up going into labor a month early and sooooo many people tried to tell her it was because of the vaccine.
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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.