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Related: About this forumCDC Panel Backs Tdap Vaccination During Every Pregnancy
http://www.obgynnews.com/index.php?id=11192&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=138011&cHash=c6ed302601e52f9797a79a99a1f1b64c"All pregnant women should receive a dose of the Tdap vaccine, whether she has received the vaccine previously, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended.
At a meeting on Oct. 24, the committee voted 14-0, with one abstention, to support the recommendation proposed by the ACIP pertussis vaccine work group that providers of prenatal care implement a Tdap immunization program for all pregnant women and that health care personnel "should administer a dose of Tdap during each pregnancy, irrespective of the patients prior history of receiving Tdap." If not administered, during pregnancy, "Tdap should be administered immediately post partum," according to the recommendation.
The recommendation is a change from the previous recommendation made by ACIP in June 2011, which says that that Tdap should be administered during pregnancy "only to women who have not previously received Tdap." The current recommendation also states that women who do not receive the vaccine during pregnancy should be vaccinated immediately post partum.
Optimally, women should receive Tdap between 27 and 36 weeks gestation, to maximize the maternal antibody response and passive transfer of antibodies to the infant, said Dr. Jennifer Liang, the lead CDC member of the ACIP pertussis vaccine work group. Based on work groups review, the evidence is "reassuring" that two doses of Tdap are safe, she said.
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CDC Panel Backs Tdap Vaccination During Every Pregnancy (Original Post)
HuckleB
Oct 2012
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. Du rec. Nt
mzmolly
(50,996 posts)2. Glad they're focusing on adults
now vs. just young children.
NickB79
(19,253 posts)3. My wife got her's when she went into labor
Right before they administered her epidural, oddly enough.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)4. That does seem odd.
I suppose it would be fine, however. Interesting.