I had the jab on Thurs, I work with the public and so I have a good chance of catching whatever they bring in to the opticians!

Thurs pm I thought my arm was going to fall off and Friday I felt rubbish! Fluey, headache etc. But all ok today.

Its everyone choice but I thought with a high risk of catching it and the risk of catching it it wasnt a tough choice. But also I am 16wks gone so in my second trimester so I felt my baby should be strong enough now.

Good luck to anyone making the choice but really read into everything and dont let the media sway you, its your and your partners choice.

I had the jab on Thursday of this week. It bloody hurt but I did a lot of research including speaking to my cousin who is a GP. He said that tests show that pregnant women and their unborn children are at more risk if they contract swine flu than they are having the jab to prevent it. I went to see the nurse, and admittedly she didnt know everything I wanted to know about the jab but its licensed and I'm OK and I think baby is too because its active enough (I'm 19 weeks by the way). My cousin said it is a difficult decision to make, but if it means me putting my unborn child's life at risk by NOT having it, then where's the choice?

Let me tell you though, my arm feels like its been stabbed by a machete!!!!!

hi...

im 21 weeks and ust been offered the jab... wasnt sure util my lodger came home saying he has it.... so ill be running in to get abbed on monday and my lodger is quarantined to his room lol...


my dad is a pharmacist an would never put me in dager or bump and he says as the jb is a dead vaccine which means no live bugs thn it would be fine for bump so to go ahead... my mum is also having it today as she has a badmune systerm after leukemia... but he says you may feel rubbish for a day afterwards...

hope this helps steff

Hi, I have been really worried about having the vaccine, I'm nearly 17 weeks pregnant and also asthmatic so was worried that if I got swine Flu I would definitely have further complications. I have seen a lot of info from people on here saying it is not proven safe etc and on the media, its worried me a lot! My midwife doesn't know much about it, she says they have been given NO information about swine flu and can only discuss what she has seen on the news about it!

Anyway, just had a look at this: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pandemic-flu/pages/qa.aspx#pv023

They claim quite clearly that the drug is safe and pregnant women should have it, even the one that people are saying the US ISNT giving to pregnant women!
Apparently some of the women in the clinical trials became pregnant during the testing and they had no problems.

So I am completely confused, should I believe them or are they just saying these things so that we all get the vaccine?
I just don't trust any info I'm giving, am certainly not going to ask my doc as he didn't even know what a clearblue pregnancy test was so god knows what he will say about the swine flu vaccine!!!

xx

Hi to all :)

I am now just over 13 weeks pregnant & so far have decided NOT to have the vaccine. I went to the doctors to see the nurse for the vaccine on Thursday & the 2 nurses knew less about the vaccine than me and my husband!!! Doesn't exactly give you confidence. They didn't even know that the Pandemrix form of the vaccine was NOT reccommended by the World Health Organisation! Why are nurses giving out this vaccine when they know nothing about it?!! Are they having no courses or training about it?! WHO reccommend the Celvapan vaccine as this one doesn't have an Adjunctant in it. The Adjunctant in Pandemrix have not been tested in pregnant women, ever! Its a big risk taking something that has not been deemed safe for our developing babies! Our nurses said they have only been allocated Pandemrix & cannot get the celvapan from the PCT! If we're going to have the vaccine at least let us have the one that is reccommended by the WHO. Our countries government is disgusting in my opinion & no doubt Pandemrix is the chosen vaccine because it is cheaper than Celvapan! I can't believe they are saying Pandemrix is safe when all of its ingredients have not been tested as safe! No one will know if it is safe until babies of mothers who have had this vaccine have been born. We are not Guinea Pigs & I advise all pregnant women to think very carefully before having the Pandemrix vaccine ... afterall, the United States are NOT giving it to their pregnant women! Our government needs to get their acts together and give us the safer vaccine! We are now looking into other ways of getting Celvapan & are considering the option of buying it privately if we have no luck from the NHS. I hope this information is helpful to you all. Lots of love, Cat xxx

I got my invite this morning from my doctor. I have a 9 week old little boy who i am the main carer for.

I WILL be having the jab.

Whether or not they can prove there are no bad side effects etc is irrelevant to me... my primary concern is my little boy and being well enough to look after him properly and if this means having an injection to protect me against swine flu then so be it.

For the record though i do think that swine flu is being blamed for lots of cases of real flu and we should have all just been vaccinated for that but i am not going to take the risk.

x

Hi, I am almost 34 weeks and i had my jab two days ago. I was worried that it wasn't researched enough and that is why i was unsure. Talked to my husband and we agreed that the risks are much bigger for me and the baby if i don't get it. It is also good to know that it is based on already existing seasonal flu vaccine and they just changed the strain of the virus. There have been no problems with administering it for all these years and shouldn't be more different with the new vaccine. As a pregnant women our immune system is very low so we are more likely to catch the virus and have serious complications which can be deadly for the baby too. I just couldn't gamble with my baby's health as babies are born with no immunity and it would be terrible to give it to the little one. The only horrible part is that because of the jab I can't lift my arm for two days now. It has been quite painful injection. I just wonder whether the vaccine also provides immunity to the baby by passing through the placenta?

Hi, I am almost 34 weeks and i had my jab two days ago. I was worried that it wasn't researched enough and that is why i was unsure. Talked to my husband and we agreed that the risks are much bigger for me and the baby if i don't get it. It is also good to know that it is based on already existing seasonal flu vaccine and they just changed the strain of the virus. There have been no problems with administering it for all these years and shouldn't be more different with the new vaccine. As a pregnant women our immune system is very low so we are more likely to catch the virus and have serious complications which can be deadly for the baby too. I just couldn't gamble with my baby's health as babies are born with no immunity and it would be terrible to give it to the little one. The only horrible part is that because of the jab I can't lift my arm for two days now. It has been quite painful injection. I just wonder whether the vaccine also provides immunity to the baby by passing through the placenta?