RSV Vaccine

knottied9132d1c78161fb1

Have any of you been offered the RSV vaccine?! 

If you had a baby last year, did you get it?

froggerblue

I wasn't offered neither this pregnancy nor last year's pregnancy. It seems to be offered mostly to pregnant people with baby that have risks factors in my country. I will ask my doctor about it in my next appointment.

missa_lyssa

My midwife mentioned it at my last appointment and said it will be offered at my next (at 32 weeks I think).

wednesdayschild

I got a prescription for it at my last appt. Supposed to get it between 32-36 weeks, but have to go to a pharmacy. I’m planning to - already got flu, TDap, and COVID.  Didn’t get offered one with my first, but she was a March babe. 

froggerblue

I got my answer : here they vaccinate newborns during RSV season, not the mother. Probably because that option is more readily available here.

bluecampanula

froggerblue said:

I got my answer : here they vaccinate newborns during RSV season, not the mother. Probably because that option is more readily available here.

Do they actually vaccinate the newborns? It was just a year or so ago that I would hear a lot about something similar in my CHD support group, but it was an antibody that was given on a specific schedule and only to babies that met a specific threshold of risk. (My child with CHDs didn't qualify, birth-surgery was outside RSV season, I only heard about this antibody treatment online)

But that has made me curious about the RSV vaccine, which so far I've also only heard about online. 

froggerblue

It's not the exact same vaccine (the names are different if it's the one given to pregnant people vs the one given to newborn). Here, they offer to vaccinate newborn at the hospital as part of the health checks they do before you get your leave during RSV season.

knottied9132d1c78161fb1

I got it yesterday (34 weeks). I preferred to get it vs having my daughter get it when she’s born. It takes about 2 weeks to building that immunity and passing it along to her. 

jcz131411

 Im getting mine next Wednesday at 34 weeks! 

MrsCaliRN

Got mine yesterday and definitely not as bad as the COVID and flu vaccines, which I got at the same time but in the other arm. I just hit 35 weeks and almost waited too long and missed my window to get it before 36 weeks gestation. Sending a reminder to everyone reading this! 

URI season is already hitting hard in California btw, unseasonably early actually, so grateful for any passive immunity I can give to baby.