I’m definitely pro vaccines, especially for certain diseases but I’ll be taking it slow with my munchkins... will check out that Youtube . Thanks!

Also Vitamin C had actually been used to cure whooping cough and it’s better for a child to become immune naturally rather than use a synthetic chemical filled vaccine.

Pubmed is an awesome resource. For sure check out Suzanne Humphries on YouTube. Amazing info.

I did more research on it... cdc only changed Recomendation a few years ago to “dtap every pregnancy “ , before it was only recomended during pregnancy for high risk populations or for moms that never had it previously.... hard to know who to trust , especially since fda and cdc are so biased nowadays . Even if I was offered it I would have done my research and I think I would have concluded not to take it during pregnancy.....I’m looking more and more stuff up in medical publications on pubmed now rather than cdc .

That’s strange. I wish my doctor would forget. I am not getting it. Most doctors make it sound like it’s mandatory but it isn’t.

It’s definitely too late for me now ... in less then 7 days I’ll be holding my munchkins! Plus the last thing I want right now is to get sick from a vaccine right before the delivery. I will make sure to give them that one on time which I was planning on anyways. They get the first dtap at 2 months. I live in south Florida so our winter ❄️ is not really winter .... hoping that helps with the whooping cough rates. I looked it up and looks like Colorado and California have the highest rates. We do have plenty of anti-vaxers here , but probably not as many as in those two states

Also that the vaccine guideline in the US..

The tdap is supposed to be recommended and given at 28 weeks of pregnancy.. I've been offered it every pregnancy at 28 weeks and I've recieved them that same day.. maybe he did forget.. sometimes they get too caught up in other stuff and forget.. it should be given at least 4 weeks before birth as it can lay in your throat asymptomatic for that long.. and it takes a few weeks to transfer the antibodies to baby..

Yup. In the US.

I think the recommendation may have started elsewhere before coming to the US, though.

Jendz are you and your family in the USA? I am ... wondering if maybe it’s something done in some countries but not here?

We asked family to get the tDap, but many of them were already in the window for their boosters, since it’s typically lumped in with the tetanus shot. My husband, father in law, mother, and brother were all good. The just had to call their doctors and check their dates.

I’ll be 37 tomorrow and delivering next Wednesday at 38! My doctor is on vacation this week... I checked with two of my cousins that said they didn’t get tdap during pregnancy. Just thought it was weird that my OB gave it to my friend but didn’t even mention it to me. It takes 2 weeks to start building immunity so it’s too late for me now I think... wondering if anyone else skipped it . Im thinking if I call office and talk to nurses they won’t give me correct info so I’ll just go with it. No one is touching babies for first few weeks anyways. I literally want to put “look but don’t touch” stickers on them. I was planning on going slow with vaccines on babies too

My office does it around 32 weeks for singletons but my OB said with twins usually coming early it’s good to get it at 30. It should just be done in the later weeks. What week are you?

I had mine done at my last appointment.

I am going to call office and ask Tomorrow, I’ve been reading on here that I need to get baby’s dad and all close relatives vaccinated as well??? Ahhh so much information and things I never even though about

It’s not a new recommendation to do it in pregnancy, but just based on reading threads here it seems like not every office is following the guidelines.

My office gave it to me around 27 weeks.

I got the TDAP shot. They started asking me about it when I hit 28 Weeks. But I got it at my 31 week appt with the flu shot.