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H1N1 and pregnancy

It is recommended that pregnant women recieve the H1N1, as well as regular, flu shot during pregnancy.  Here is quote from Dr Enoch Choi on a recent thread regarding this important topic.

"Why does CDC advise pregnant women to receive the 2009 H1N1 influenza (flu) vaccine (shot)?

Getting the flu shot is the single best way to protect against the flu. It is important for a pregnant woman to receive both the 2009 H1N1 flu shot and the seasonal flu shot. A pregnant woman who gets any type of flu has a greater chance for serious health problems. Compared with people in general who get 2009 H1N1 flu (formerly called “swine flu”), pregnant women with 2009 H1N1 flu are more likely to be admitted to hospitals. Pregnant women are also more likely to have serious illness and death from 2009 H1N1 flu.

When a pregnant woman gets a flu shot, it can protect both her and her baby. Research has found that pregnant women who had a flu shot get sick less often with the flu than do pregnant women who did not get a flu shot.  Babies born to mothers who had a flu shot in pregnancy also get sick with flu less often than do babies whose mothers did not get a flu shot."


Here is a link to the discussion:

http://www.medhelp.org/health_chats/archive/34
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906115 tn?1344200509
That is vey interesting! You know that is how aids and lots of things have gotten passed around. The government is not what we once thought are they. I am sadend to her the new health bill be passed. It owuld be like 1,400 for a family of 4 a month!!! How can people afford that! Like 900 for a single person. I have not read all the details about it but know we are heading into a socialist nation. Some big wig in Russia told Obama not to do this as it does nto work like we woudl want it too. He told him in a statement that they had tried it and it broke their nation. Very sad and I will die if they say these shots are mandatory! Legally they can not even keep your kids out of school enrollment for not having shots. They tried but failed with mine as I wrote a letter to the school, dr, and pharmisutical company who made the shots  to  out in writing they were 100% safe and would taek full resonsibility if something were to happen to my children. THey sent me letter saying they could not do that, all of them, and said that shots were based on informed consent and they are not mandatory in any state in the us. We have to fight and win the right battles! However I am glad I am due in the summer when there is less chance of catching anything when delivering.
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661650 tn?1302282558
http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/dr-russell-blaylock-on-1976-swine-flu-and-current-outbreak/
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My school nurse told me to ONLY get the seasonal flu shot and not the H1N1 flu shot.
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906115 tn?1344200509
My hospital got in trouble for posting a letter from the government. It stated that more cases of H1N1 are from people who have had the shot or nasal spray. There ahve been no studies on this shot as it is made in chicken eggs like the regular flu shot. If given in the first 12 weeks of being pregnant it can effect the evelopment of the baby also as any shot! Anyway teh hospital posted the info about how it is spreading faster and sooner then it should was due to the shots and nasal spray. My hospital is a chain around the area and they had clinics to give them to the hospitals employes at one week intervals. The first hospital had an employee rate or almost 80% who got sick after getting the shot or nasal spray. Then they posted to all other hospitals that they would advise not gettting anything. I was in the lab getting my HCG levles done and government officials were all over the hospital taking down their personal letter to the administration and county health departments. I am not getting any shot and my kids have never had any shots for anything even vaccines and are the healthiest kids! They ahve never even gotten a cold! My step children have not been sick since they stopped getting shots as well. REad this. It is a thing my friend posted after researching about shots.

http://www.alternativehealth.co.nz/vacines/historicalfacts.htm
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661650 tn?1302282558
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/03/What-We-Have-Learned-About-the-Great-Swine-Flu-Pandemic.aspx



PLEASE READ
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661650 tn?1302282558
Hey-well i have never got the Flu shot of any kid ever, so i cant really say i am okay with it. I just do not trust this govt. The Govt, the Media, the Insurance companies, even some Dr's they are all like one big corporation whether people believe it or not and sometimes they do make things a lot bigger then things are to make a buck. Again i do not think they are trying to kill us with this shot, but no one knows the long term effects on what the shot can do to you. Since they threw it together so quickly, same goes for the reg shot or anything that has not really been tested long enough. Again im not swaying either way, im actually prb going to get at least one of those shots, but regarldless if i get it or not, i still am soo pissed at this Govt and Media and Medical Companies, they are all about the money. And it makes me sick. which is the number one reason why people are hooked on Perscription pills every year. Even your regular DR now a days, can perscribe meds for anxiety and i do not just mean a Xanax for when you fly, i mean Lexapro things that you have to take every day, meds that only psychiatrist should be perscibing, i don't know i just do not believe everything i see on tv just because it is on the news, i know they have their own agendas, which is prob why they didn't report half the dumb **** that president Bush was doing while he was in office, we practicly re-elected him twice out of fear. Sorry guys-things are crazy here in NY, alot of people think like that. But again this is all just my oppinion. Good luck to everyone on what ever you descide, just do not believe everything you hear on News. Everyone has their own agendas.....But when it does come to this vaccine unfortunatly we really are not left with much choice so i think, we have to out way our options......Again good luck to all.
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