I am 11weeks pregnant and had the swine flu vacine.
They have seen so many pregnant women become so sick with the actual swine flu itself, and new mums have actually died from it.
THis is my 3rd child and i know that when ur pregnant and get the flu its 10x worst then a normal flu.
My hubby also got the vacine as they are trying to immunise fathers to be also, incase a parent contracts the actual virus while they have a newborn. Imagine your newborn contracting the virus.
When my eldest child (now 8) was around 2 meningococcal and meningitis was a big thing and they came out with the vacine, i was torn on whether or not to get her vacinated as it was a new thing, i got her vacinated against it and all was fine.
I think this is the same thing, I will be getting my 2 kids vacinated against swine flu when it becomes available, there has already been far to many deaths with the swine flu virus but yet no deaths with the vacine.
My sister is a public servant for the government, they were already vacinated over 3months ago. she had pregnant women in her sector vacinated and yet there has been no proplems.[/FONT]
It really is one of those things that is a personal descion.
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