letsdoit thanx for that message - yeah i'm defo goin for it but am gonna ask tmrw at the surgery if id be able to book an appt for 3 or 4 weeks time. Also want gp's input on the pandermix / celvapan issue k

letsdoit thanx for that message - yeah i'm defo goin for it but am gonna ask tmrw at the surgery if id be able to book an appt for 3 or 4 weeks time. Also want gp's input on the pandermix / celvapan issue k

I have my appointment on Thursday as it was either make an appointment now (20 weeks) or wait until I felt more comfortable, which would be around 30 week mark, and risk the surgery having no supplies and not being classed as high risk as I refused it first time round. Doesn't help that when I asked about it yesterday the receptionist told me "oh all pregnant women have been called and have had the jab from this surgery", eh I wouldn't be asking if that was actually the case!

I am slightly worried as I'd like to be a bit further on, had one of the new detailed scans yesterday and everything is perfect but I would now hate myself if there were any side affects that show after birth.

I would have like there to be more research and maybe more stats on pregnant women who have had the jab and went on to deliver healthy babies. anyone have any info on this?

Like some though I have DD1 to think about and the thought of catching swine flu and anything happening to me just fills me with dread!

So basically, I've went from no way to yes I will now (unless I change my mind before thursday) but wiuld have rather I had been at least over 24 weeks!

Now way would I ever take it. Not worth the risk over getting the flu, it's been tried and tested for how long??? Tested for long term effects for how long?? You couldn't pay me to take it!

Kelliot, i am a teacher too and this is only my opinion but with 80 kids daily I would have the jab if I had the chance.

I am only waiting because I am only 5 wks pg, but my husband attended a meeting (for parents) with the health experts today, which was all about the swine flu jab, and he was told it's only a flu jab, and they have been making them for many years, and pregnant women have been taking them for years too.

He was a 'no' before the meeting, but came out convinced that me and my toddler should both have it, as the chance of having trouble from the jab itself does not seem that high (apart from a sore arm) and more importantly we could then relax in the knowledge we'll never catch the damm flu would stop AGONISING about what to do!

im starting to really struggle with the indecision now. Am a teacher, work with over 80 youngkids daily, have a child who's at school. Am 18 wks pg , had a miscarriage a few months ago, due to get jab on wed. having read some of these messages i was gonna try and postpone it till start of 3rd trimester when baby bigger, but have heard that if you say no once you go to the end of the queue as it were. 1 day to go Help!

I am not having the injection, but I suspect I may already be naturally immune to Swine Flu - my husband had it and I didn't catch so much as a sniffle.

I generally enjoy very good health, and am suspicious of medicines that have not been tested for long.

I was just going from some of the NHS articles that have been published, but you are right that they are ambigiuous....some state that you have a 1 in 3 chance of getting swine flu by the end of the flu season, and others refer to the duration of the pandemic......I hope it is the latter! Probably in reality, most of the cases out there that are being diagnosed as swine flu probably aren't as there are so many other flu viruses out there, so the chances of getting swine flu proper are maybe quite slim, but the converse of this is that if you DO get it, the chances of being really sick do increase. But to put it all in perspective, we've all got about a 1 percent chance of something "dangerous" happening over the course of our pergnancy (i.e. gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, placenta preavia, late miscarriage etc) and I don't go around worrying about any of those!!!

Having said that - still undecided but determined to make a decision by the end of the week! All thisw toing and froing is driving me CRAZY and my DH thinks that I am obsessed (he is threatening to disconnect the internet to precent any more "research"!!!)

Lumpasmelly - how did you come up with the idea that you had a 1 in 3 % chance of getting it during pregnancy. AFAIK the projected infection rate is at worst case 30% of the population, which means during the course of the pandemic you have a 30% chance of getting it. The pandemic will probably be two to three years long and you will only be pregnant for part of that (unless you are super fertile and conceive again very quickly).

It's been around since March(?) so we are already 8 months through it. To my mind your exposure is much lower than you are assuming.

BTW not questioning you should have the vaccine, just think you should do so on a real world view of the risk.

I had the jab on yesterday, and apart from feeling that someone's punched me on the arm really hard <<big wuss emoticon>> there haven't been any side effects, and DD is still doing her step aerobics routine

I asked the nurse who did it whether she was giving the jab out because she felt totally comfortable giving it to me, or whether she was doing it because she'd been told to.

She said that it was a bit of both, she felt a bit uncomfortable because they don't give pregnant women vaccines as a rule, but she did feel that the advice given seemed good as pregnant women looked to be most at risk.

Because I know her relatively well, as in she's the nurse we always see, I looked right into her eyes when I was asking her and I didn't see anything there that I could read as her feeling uncomfortable. She spoke to me not just as a nurse, but as a caring person.