She recalled: 'The whole thing happened very quickly. 'I wasn't feeling too bad at that point and I still had the ability and strength to message my husband and gave him updates,' she said.īut over that weekend her condition deteriorated quickly. Initially a surge of oxygen delivered via a mask made her feel better. 'Because of Covid my husband wasn't allowed to come with me, I believe it was at that moment it all became so real, (I realised) I was very sick and wasn't able to get better myself,' she added. I booked a telephone appointment with my GP and got referred to have a face to face assessment.'Īt that point she was given a fingertip pulse oximeter and told to raise the alarm if the reading dropped below 92% - but just hours later she was in an ambulance on her way into the hospital after her condition deteriorated. 'I was waiting to see how my symptoms would develop and how I would feel down the line but my symptoms got worse on Friday July 16. You need the second dose to get longer lasting protection. You do not need to delay this second dose. The first dose of COVID-19 vaccine will give you good protection. Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are the preferred vaccines for pregnant women of any age who are coming for their first dose.Īnyone who has already started vaccination and is offered a second dose whilst pregnant, should have a second dose with the same vaccine unless they had a serious side effect after the first dose.ĬOVID-19 vaccines offer pregnant women the best protection against COVID-19 disease which can be serious in later pregnancy for some women. In the USA, around 90,000 pregnant women have been vaccinated mainly with Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and no safety concerns have been identified.Įvidence on COVID-19 vaccines is being continuously reviewed by the World Health Organization and the regulatory bodies in the UK, USA, Canada and Europe. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that pregnant women should be offered COVID-19 vaccines at the same time as people of the same age or risk group. These vaccines do not contain live coronavirus and cannot infect a pregnant woman or her unborn baby in the womb. The coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines available in the UK have been shown to be effective and to have a good safety profile.