Flu shot or not?

[newmommy10_06]

How do you mommy's feel about receiving the flu shot while still pregnant? I'm a FTM,37 weeks and my doctor suggested it since it's the beginning of flu season.

[simone85]

I live in Australia and at my first appointment my doctor gave me the shot, its been a good thing we have had a pretty bad kinda flu going around.

[AML0212]

Not sure how I feel about it... I never get the flu shot and I really get the flu, so I'm nervous that if I get it now it'll make me sick. My doctor suggested it yet, but I have an appointment Thursday. Maybe she'll mention it.

[AML0212]

Rarely** (not really)

[AML0212]

She hasn't* mentioned it (yikes! Sorry about the typos. Stupid phone.)

[Newmummy657]

I did it at 5 weeks along, best think I did!! Hubby had the worst flu this year and I only managed to get a heavy head cold off him. I'm all for getting vaccinations, they are there to help us or they wouldn't offer it.

[pypersmommy]

I'm not sure about it either. Like the other lady said I too never had one before and never really get sick other than a head cold and I'm afraid of I get it it will make me sick. But I only have 96 days to go and the doctor hadn't mentioned it yet so I prob won't get one.

[skipapage]

So I NEVER get the flu shot and i have to sell them at work, but I got them since im pregnant, ibcabt afford to get sick. Ive posted about this a few times,  1. It is not a live vaccine so it will not make you sick (the shot, the mist is live vaccine) so the people that say they got sick after they got the shot, either were exposed to the flu before getting the shot, or its not the flu. It does however take 2 weeks to become effective so if you come in contact with someone who has the flu you could get it. If your going to get it het it now before kids start spreading the flu, people died last year the flu is no joke and as soon to be mamas we are vulnerable because our bodies are focused on growing our little one and have a hard time fighting illnesses.  Cvs, Rite Aid, and Walgreens all have the vaccine in stock now. You want preservitive free as well.

[newmommy10_06]

Thank you ladies.

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[jw12198]

My cousin is a nurse and like most of you I've never gotten the flu shot even with my first child but she says it's the best thing for us this time of year since the immune system is weakened, second time mom with another boy 25 weeks

[Tanjat]

I'll be getting it.  I agree with the poster above - the flu shot does not make you sick

[lousie_1986]

Seriously I just cannot believe it's safe. Me and my two sisters all got the shot at various times over 2 years (quite far apart from each other). We all only ever get the flu for a week or 2, if that. And yet within a few days of the shot, we each got an awful flu that lasted for 6 WEEKS (this was in different seasons so we weren't catching it from eachother)! If there's no way of catching flu from the vaccine then for sure there was something in the shot that either reacted badly with us or suppressed our immune systems. Either way I won't be getting one!

[irinasmb]

I'm debating this one in my head also.  The last two years I did not get the flu shot for my kids or myself and we did not get sick. While the years before that when we did get the shots everyone got horribly sick at some point in the season.  Now I know the shots don't get you sick, but my argument is they don't actually work a 100% either.  I just hate putting anything unnecessary into my kids bodies if it's infective.  

[knufrio]

Lousie_1986 the flu doesn't last 6 weeks. Many people think they have flu but what they really have is another virus. The flu shot protects against Influenza virus. Not other random viruses going around.  

[mom429]

My first pregnancy I didn't get the shot because I never had the shot before why start now....well I should have ended up in the hospital for 4 days because of the flu! My second pregnancy got the shot and I'm getting the shot at my next appointment for my 3rd pregnancy

[samx89]

Im getting the flu shot, the midwife told me that it was important to get it as im having a winter baby, they cant give it to newborns so if I have it, it will be past to the baby and help him if he got the flu.

[Mama6hijos]

Yes, I get a flu shot!! It also helps protect the baby once he/she is born as well!!

[jnd622]

The problem I have with the flu shot is it is only for certain strains of the flu - I never got flu shots - my first pregnancy I got one as advised, and then came down with Type A influenza and was hospitalized in my 6th month for about a week. I have gone back to not getting the flu shots - and don't plan to with this pregnancy - mostly because for whatever reason, the one time i did get one, I was massively ill with the flu.

I also had someone I know who is a long time nurse send me a study where they were finding negative effects from flu vaccines on pregnant women - not sure how valid/not but it was definitely an interesting article.

[Baby1_2]

If you ask any moms with autistic kids, they will tell you to NOT get any vaccines while pregnant, I am no saying if you get the flu vaccine you'll have an autistic kid, but what I am saying is it could an important factor for some kids, not all of our children are the same so you never know how they will react to vaccines while they are developing... Specially because the vaccine has mercury and years ago it was not safe for pregnant woman.... I've never got the flu and hopefully I don't get it his year, but I am definitely not getting any vaccines while pregnant....  

[knufrio]

The flu vaccines come preservative free (no mercury)

[GeekMom1213]

Vaccination has absolutely no link with autism. This has been proven over and over and over again. Vaccinations do not cause autism. They are not a factor. They do not increase the risk. Please do not spread dangerous misinformation. If vaccines were dangerous to pregnant women don't you think scientists and doctors and researchers would have figured it out by now??? Vaccines prevent diseases. That's what they do. Autism is scary, mostly because we don't know what causes it, but we are absolutely sure that it is not caused by getting vaccinated.

[newmommy10_06]

Good responses ladies. Thank you all for your advice and opinions.

[acissej87]

I had never gotten a flu shot. And I rarely have had the flu(maybe twice my entire life and I'm 27) The year that H1N1 was bad, I decided to get it, along with my son who was about 2 at the time. We both ended up with the flu. My son got it first, had a high fever for a week, I had to take him in because his temp got to 104. The day he was finally better and had no fever for 24 hrs without medicine, I became sick. I was in bed for a week. We were the only two in the house who got the flu, and at the time there were 5 other people living in the house, and NONE of them became sick. Because of this I will not get the shot. That was the worst flu I had ever had.

[krissydoo]

I would recommend the flu shot. I got th flu in early pregnancy and was hospitalized because of it. Your body's immune system is weak during and after pregnancy. Plus you do not want to get the flu with a newborn, no fun!!

[libellula]

I've never gotten the flu shot and I've never gotten the flu. I'm really not on either side of the argument, but I'm personally not getting one.