I am a father to be, I remember when I heard about the pregnancy, the feeling that went through my body was unreal. But now, it has tapered to complete worry because of what the title explains above. I have read the research, or lack thereof. I wanted to reach out to this forum as it's helped me in the past on personal issues. I know my wife will be fine, we don't know if she actually had rabies. My concern is the fetus now. At 6 weeks it's developing vital organs, brain, nervous system etc. My wife received Rabies Immune Globulin once and then is to receive 5 additional doses of Novartis RabAvert (a killed rabies vaccine made of chick embryo). She is about to receive the 3rd dose. I know there is not much research on its effect on the human fetus, but what is your initial theoretical conclusion. Is this something to worry about, will my baby be disabled? All in all, is this medication going to hurt my child.
The additional question I had was...are there tests during pregnancy to evaluate baby for downs, blindness, deaf, brain damage or any other bad thing that may happen due to the vaccine.
This is supposed to be such an exciting time, my wife and I are so upset that this cloud is now hovering. Thank you