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Originally Posted by YorktownGal
There were a lot of newspaper articles on miscarriages and the covid vaccine. It was a big news story.
There are some vaccines like MMR that can't be given during pregnancy. German measles and pregnancy doesn't mix well.
Evidence shows the covid vaccines are safe during pregnancy. Covid carries a higher risk of severe disease and death for the mother and a higher risk of fetal loss compared to non-pregnant women.
MMR is not given during pregnancy because it is a live virus vaccine.
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Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00
News stories doesn't mean its true. There is no evidence that the covid vaccine increases a woman's chance for miscarriage. The vaccine is not "iffy" for pregnant women. It's perfectly safe.
Unless exposed, why would anyone be getting the MMR vaccine as an adult? That's not a vaccine that requires a booster shot, unlike the flu, covid, and Tdap.
An antibody titer for rubella should be obtained preferably before pregnancy to make sure immunity has not waned. If it has, the vaccine should be administered. Pregnant women are also tested and offered the vaccine if not immune.
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Mod: If you do not want this vaccine discussion here please move it to the pregnancy subforum.
Tho it’s not a thread about vaccines….ppl continue to take it OT.^^
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Originally Posted by AntonioR
If you guys want a baby, simply do it now. Go through the nine months and get it out of the way.
Why would we do it now because somebody on the internet told us to? If we do stop our birth control & decide on a baby, it will be our own timing ofc. AND I would never just want to get a pregnancy “out of the way”. I would want to enjoy & embrace it…not worry about uncertainty or my health or the baby’s health if I caught a future variant. That’s the point of the thread tho…sharing feelings. Not to tell somebody what to do. AND that’s the talk I had with my GYN recently when I told him about my pregnancy “scare” AND he told me I was not alone. Many other women are delaying pregnancy..tho ofc not all because of covid. But there is uncertainty.
Mod: If you do not want this vaccine discussion here please move it to the pregnancy subforum.
Evidence shows the covid vaccines are safe during pregnancy. Covid carries a higher risk of severe disease and death for the mother and a higher risk of fetal loss compared to non-pregnant women.
MMR is not given during pregnancy because it is a live virus vaccine.
An antibody titer for rubella should be obtained preferably before pregnancy to make sure immunity has not waned. If it has, the vaccine should be administered. Pregnant women are also tested and offered the vaccine if not immune.
Tho it’s not a thread about vaccines….ppl continue to take it OT.^^
I don't see how vaccines are off topic. They're a good precaution to stay safe and healthy during pregnancy. If you ever do become pregnant, vaccines are definitely something you'll be talking about as you'll need to get at the very least the Tdap vaccine, the covid vaccine, and possibly the flu vaccine depending on time of year.
And you're the one who brought up the covid vaccine being "iffy" and then wanted to bring up other unrelated vaccines to try and prove the point that vaccines are not safe during pregnancy.
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would want to enjoy & embrace it…not worry about uncertainty or my health or the baby’s health if I caught a future variant. That’s the point of the thread tho…sharing feelings.
No matter when someone gets pregnant, there will always be uncertainty with the health of the mother and baby. No one is guaranteed a happy, healthy, low risk pregnancy. It doesn't matter if that pregnancy happens in the middle of a global pandemic or not. It's a very stressful time. I have cried and had many sleepless nights worried about my baby. Not one of those concerns had anything to do with covid.
I was diagnosed with low amniotic fluid on Thursday. I'll get rechecked on Monday, but all I can do in the mean time is chug a bunch of water (I already drink about 120 oz of water a day) in the hopes that I'm keeping baby safe. If levels don't rise, I might need an early induction on Monday. Again, nothing to do with covid. Complications can come up in any pregnancy no matter how healthy you try to be. There will always be that uncertainty as it's just not something you can control.
edit: Also thank you to the other posters who answered my question tho…AND to the older ppl who talked about their kids or grandkids experiences with pregnancy before covid.
No thanks to us grandparents who shared our grandkids experiences who were born during the height of covid? Because everything was fine?
Also sorry for going OT a sec, but best wishes to SundayDrive on a healthy happy delivery! And drink more water!
Research has shown (over and over again) that having children reduces happiness, even though parents think it will make them happier. This phenomenon is known as “The Parenthood Paradox”. Having children represents: time demands, energy demands, sleep deprivation (potentially starting a vicious circle), work-life balance disturbances, and financial burden. All of those downsides will impact parents, and the only reward is the potential joy that children will occasionally bring them.
Objectively, this is not a good deal. We also live in a society that seems to hate children, and not only does not support parents, but actively makes life harder for them. Given that, it is definitely not a rational choice to have children. It is an emotional/biological one because no purely rational being would sign up for having to care for, spend resources on and clean up after others who will behave largely unappreciative for most of their lives. Doing this during a pandemic is even less rational because the hardships will be more pronounced.
For the record, I have 1 child, so I am not against having children per se, but it was certainly not a rational decision to have one. I would not take it back because I love my child, but being a parent is not easy. I also made my comment partly in jest, so take it with a grain of salt.
It is an emotional/biological one because no purely rational being would sign up for having to care for, spend resources on and clean up after others who will behave largely unappreciative for most of their lives.
Speak for yourself. Is this how you felt about and treated your parents?
My siblings and I were far from perfect kids or perfect adults either, for that matter, but we loved and tried to take care of our parents. Our parents told us frequently throughout their lives how glad they were that we were around.
My youngest is 25 years old and I never had a rubella titer until after he was born. I got a MMR while recovering from my c-section.
The big thing back then was AIDS testing.
I had a rubella titer on my first OB visit & found to have no immunity. I worked in a high-risk situation where I could easily be exposed & was worried my entire pregnancy...got MMR vaccine right after baby was born.
I mentioned this way upthread, as an example when I expressed my opinion about waiting out this year before reconsidering pregnancy. There is just so much uncertainty right now.
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Why would we do it now because somebody on the internet told us to? If we do stop our birth control & decide on a baby, it will be our own timing ofc. AND I would never just want to get a pregnancy “out of the way”. I would want to enjoy & embrace it…not worry about uncertainty or my health or the baby’s health if I caught a future variant. That’s the point of the thread tho…sharing feelings. Not to tell somebody what to do. AND that’s the talk I had with my GYN recently when I told him about my pregnancy “scare” AND he told me I was not alone. Many other women are delaying pregnancy..tho ofc not all because of covid. But there is uncertainty.
), but this Mayo clinic article from 2020 says that it is still routine: 
