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Immunisation during pregnancy can help prevent disease, or make illness less serious, as antibodies developed are passed to the unborn baby helping to protect them in their first few weeks of life. There are two vaccinations that are recommended during pregnancy:
- Flu Vaccine
- Whooping Cough
Flu Vaccine
If you’re pregnant in winter, you will be offered a flu vaccine. The Royal College of Midwives along with Scotland’s Chief Medical and Chief Nursing Officers recommend that all pregnant women should have the free flu vaccine, even if you’ve had it before or this isn’t your first baby. There is evidence that pregnant women can be more at risk of developing complications if you get flu during pregnancy. To cut this risk for you and your baby’s health, women are offered a free flu jab from October to March.
You can find out more information of the flu vaccine by downloading the following leaflet or accessing the following link You can also access the leaflet in different languages by clicking here.
Whooping Cough
The whooping cough vaccine is offered to pregnant women to help protect their baby against whooping cough (also known as pertussis). That’s because there’s a lot of whooping cough around at the moment and babies who are too young to start their routine immunisations are at greatest risk. You will be offered the whooping cough vaccine from 16 weeks of pregnancy onwards every time you are pregnant
You can find out more information of the flu vaccine by downloading the following leaflet or accessing the following link. You can also access the leaflet in different languages by clicking here.
Covid-19 Vaccination
Visit the coronovirus page for information about the Covid-19 vaccination.