THE Delta variant poses a “severe” risk to mums-to-be and all pregnant women have been urged to get jabbed. Almost all pregnant women hospitalised with Covid had not been vaccinated, sh…
He said: “Pregnant women with severe Covid pneumonitis are at greatly increased risk of stillbirth or premature delivery and I would urge all pregnant women to take up the offer of vaccination.
“Luckily, most of the women we have seen have only needed high-flow oxygen or CPAP [Continuous positive airway pressure] and have managed to avoid ventilation. “Our lady was sufficiently late on in her pregnancy that we did not have to worry too much about the risks of premature birth but this was obviously a very troubling situation."A PREGNANT MUM anxious about the vaccine said doing her research persuaded her to get the jab after several months of burying her head in the sand.
But after her 20-week scan went well and as lockdown eased, she began to think about how big a risk catching Covid-19 might be to both her unborn baby and her two young children. "I thought, on balance, it is safer for me, being the carrier of my child and also having two kids at home already who obviously aren't vaccinated, to protect all of us."Numbers have soared more than fivefold since the end of May leading to Government ministers and health leaders urging women to get vaccinated.
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