Thanks all for your opinions. The Australian immunisation handbook recommends that women who are going to be in the 2nd or 3rd tri during flu season should be immunised.
And then I read other articles that say you should only have the vaccine if you are high risk (e.g. asthmatic, kidney problems etc), which I am not. I have a history of allergies/eczema but not asthma.
I think I have had the flu once. (My sister reckons it was Scarlet Fever, but I'm sticking with Influenza... we both caught it and never got tested.)
I've also read studies from the US that say the flu vaccine can protect your newborn if you have it while pregnant (given that you can't give a baby the vaccine).
I am so confused! I want to protect myself and my baby, of course but don't want to have unnecessary meds while pregnant. Agh! I'll have to keep thinking on it.