I've just signed up on here as I was looking for info on the swine flu vaccination. I'm 27 weeks pregnant and avoided having the jab last year as I had the same concerns listed here - no clue what the potential long-term side effects are for the baby.

However, I'm now getting ready to head back to school in 2 weeks (I'm a high school teacher) and have heard that they're expecting the swine flu to come back around Feb/March. (Just as it came back in the US in Aug/Sept as autumn began and kids were going back to school.) As a teacher and an asthmatic, I know I'm at higher risk... but still very nervous about this vaccine. However, I do always get the seasonal flu shot every year, and I suppose I'm not really sure why the long-term side effects for the swine flu vac would be any different to those of the seasonal flu vac?? So with that part of my brain, I'm thinking I should go ahead and get it... Also, nearly ALL of my American friends who are pregnant, as well as my sister who is a nurse, were recommended by their OB's to get the jab.

BUT, I called 2 different sources today in Sydney to get their recommendations, and got 2 very different answers... Mothersafe wholeheartedly recommended it, while the midwife at my hospital said she wouldn't get it and that the current jab won't necessarily provide any protection about the swine flu that may or may not arrive here in Feb/March... She suggested waiting for a month or so to see if there is another outbreak, and getting the shot then if it happens...

So I'm just wondering if anyone here has had any recent recommendations from their doctors?? I know a lot of these posts were from October when the jab was very new, so just wondering if anyone has done anything about it recently?

Thanks!