June Bundles of Joy - 2016

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Lil_Pixie said:
Congratulations on team blue!

Starlight thr glucose test is fine, just really boring! It's just a blood test, a sugary drink (the drink differs from place to place) a loooong wait and another blood test.

I will definitely definitely be getting the vaccine. My nephew got whooping cough last year 2hen he was 4 weeks old and honestly it was terrifying. He was in isolation in the hospital for a week, for that time he wasn't allowed to be touched beyond feeding and changing. He had to have help breathing, he turned blue everyone he coughed for three months. My sister and her husband were too scared to sleep and he was so distressed when he couldn't breathe it was heartbreaking. My sister did have the vaccine when she was pregnant but with hindsight it was very likely she already had whooping couch when she got the jab, and she probably passed it on to her son so no way to avoid it really.

I don't think I've ever had the whooping cough vaccine, but I'll definitely be having it during pregnancy (not that I'm sure it'll do much good, I've already had three MMR vaccinations and I'm still not immune to rubella, I'll have two more once the baby is here)
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I'm also a strong advocate of vaccination and will have whatever the health service advises me I should have in pregnancy. It is nothing to do with us and everything to do with the babies! There have been influenza and whooping cough outbreaks around here in the last 2 years and I won't be taking any chances either. Wow so sorry for your poor little nephew despite your sister having the jab, that sounds terrifying :hug:
 
So tdap is whooping cough ?! I have never been offered it despite having a baby as recently as 2014. Definitely going to be asking what the deal with that is haha. Not sure why I haven't been offered it before.
 
I missed the whooping cough jab with Micah as it came in when I was just over 38 weeks and they said it needed 2 weeks to work to cover baby... I really wanted it as well as there was an outbreak locally at the time. Luckily he was fine but it annoyed me as he was 10 days late so would have covered him afterall.
 
Also sorry I have totally not read the thread properly.

COngrats on blue southern :) those boys are really catching up now. Knew they would. :)
 
Starlight, I know a number of pregnant ladies who had the tdap. I had my flu vaccine at about 15 weeks & all the signs up in the antenatal clinic are about getting the whooping cough vaccine after 28 weeks. I will definitely be getting it too. As Boo says, it's not about us, but about the baby, & it has no real immune protection for the first period of its life apart from what the mother has passed on.
 
I will have the whooping cough vax, too many people don't vaccinate their children and whooping cough can be deadly for a newborn. For me personally that extra bit of protection is great.
 
I'll be the getting the W cough vaccine, I have a big phobia of needles so dreading it but needs must.


We fly out to Barcelona tomorrow! I'm really excited but dreading all the house work and packing I have to do today or the long drive this evening to the IL's to drop DS off.
 
I'm getting torn about the tdap. I want to protect baby but I also read online about it not really being safe (such as causing still birth). I'm going to at least tell her I don't want it at 28 weeks and wait a bit later as the cdc recommendation is 27 to 36 weeks. I also read that since the recommendation in 2011, only 20% of pregnant woman opt to get the shot. I just don't want to lose baby :(
 
Starlight I understand your worry :hugs: talk through it with your doctor and ask if there is any publication she can point you to, there are negative publications about pretty much everything which is why it's important to only look at the most recent information and to make sure it's from a source that doctors use/trust.
 
Is tdap actually the same thing as whooping cough I don't know!

Has anyone heard from babyclements wasn't she having a gender scan this week? X
 
Starlight32 said:
I do the glucose test in 3 weeks. Any advice of what of expect?

My ob also mentioned getting the tdap shot. I'm up to date but she said the recommended for pregnant women to get it regardless because it helps pass immunity to baby. I'm all for vaccines, but getting it during pregnancy scares me. Has anyone done this?
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ok first- glucose, it's really easy. Is it the three hour or one hour? my advice? Fast. My first time doing it the mw told me oh no i could eat normal. i gave her a list of everything i would be eating. i failed by 7 points. went in the next time for the three hour and talked to the tech. she said i NEVER should've been told to have the orange juice, and that's probably why i failed. It was a pretty big glass. So this time, i'm fasting!

As for the vaccine, if you are up to date, i wouldn't get it. they give the baby the dtap when it's a baby anyway and baby gets your antibodies. But that's just me. plenty of woman get vaccines in their pregnancies, however, i'm more cautious with stuff just because i don't like introducing anything foreign into my body while pregnant. if that makes sense. I"ve turned down the flu vax (the only one they recommended this time) because i've read some things about guillian barre syndrome affecting pregnancy woman (and my gpa got it from a flu vax so i figure i'm more susceptible to it) plus i have never ever gotten the flu vax so why would i risk a reaction to a vax i've never had for the first time in a pregnancy? YOu have to do what you feel right with. My mw doesn't care that i don't want it. She said i just have to tell you about it, and did, then i never heard about it again.

GeralynB said:
Starlight32 said:
I do the glucose test in 3 weeks. Any advice of what of expect?

My ob also mentioned getting the tdap shot. I'm up to date but she said the recommended for pregnant women to get it regardless because it helps pass immunity to baby. I'm all for vaccines, but getting it during pregnancy scares me. Has anyone done this?
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I didn't get it during my last pregnancy and probably won't this time either. They also offered it to both me and my husband in the hospital right after I gave birth but we didn't get it. My son got all his vaccines though
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They offered it to me after birth as well. But if we're current why are they pushing it too? dd got all her vaxs that they recommended too so i didn't bother getting the vax. i figured, i just pushed this child out of me, you've been taking a ton of my bloods, leave me the f alone.

Starlight32 said:
I'm getting torn about the tdap. I want to protect baby but I also read online about it not really being safe (such as causing still birth). I'm going to at least tell her I don't want it at 28 weeks and wait a bit later as the cdc recommendation is 27 to 36 weeks. I also read that since the recommendation in 2011, only 20% of pregnant woman opt to get the shot. I just don't want to lose baby :(
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Hun if you're not comfortable (and i know you worry a lot) then DONT do it. because you know what, you're gonna freak out and worry a ton. You can always get it right at the end after giving birth (i had dd in md and they offered it after) and baby will get her vax at her regular check ups. Don't let anyone bully you into it if you're not comfortable with it. that's what they tried with me after i gave birth and that made me want it even less. Everything is about pushing fear into people. And they said i had plenty of antibodies, WHY are you making me do it again! just follow your heart hun. and for any woman that decide to have it done that's awesome too- as long as its their decision. i just hate when us mamas feel backed into a corner.
 
afm dd has a valentine party at her grams so we'll be off to do that today, and she seems totally back to normal? what a freak thing! so weird.
 
Thanks sweet ladies! It's so odd, with my sons group boys were an OVERWHELMING majority (I mean it was really well and truly odd how many more boys. The 7 of us that still talk daily and keep up all had boys, not a girl among us and all but one already had all sons.) so it's so odd to me (and exciting!!) to see so many pink bumps!!
 
22 weeks today!

My sil's baby who had a scheduled section for the 22nd, came last night! he wasn't even due til the 27th. So i now have my first nephew :)
 
Happy V day Miracles. Xx

Happy 22 weeks due date buddy and congratulations on your little nephew. Xx
 
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