Whooping cough and Flu
During your pregnancy you will be offered some vaccinations, you community midwife will discuss these with you during your antenatal appointments.
You will be offered both your Whooping cough and flu vaccine, these are recommended and deemed safe by robust clinical trials for all pregnant women. You will need to contact your GP to book these.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
During September 2024 SASH will be starting to offer all pregnant women and birthing people a free vaccine in each pregnancy to protect their baby from Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), also known as Bronchiolitis.
This will be rolled out over all three hospital sites at East Surrey, Crawley and Horsham. You can choose to have your vaccine from 28 weeks pregnant.
More information will be released on when this is available to book soon.
COVID-19
COVID-19 vaccines are also strongly recommended in pregnancy. Please see link to FAQs produced by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. COVID-19 vaccination information from breastfeeding and pregnant parents.
BCG
Once your baby is born, they may be eligible for a BCG vaccination. Please use the link for further information.