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Mary M. Murry, R.N., C.N.M.
Mary M. Murry, R.N., C.N.M.
Mary Murry is a certified nurse-midwife in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Murry, a Cincinnati native, has been a nurse-midwife practitioner for more than 20 years and is an instructor at the College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic. She was a contributing reviewer and writer of the "Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy" book.
Her research interests include adult female survivors of sexual abuse, women's perception of pain in labor, and obesity in pregnancy.
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Feb. 26, 2013
Tdap vaccine: Now recommended during pregnancy
By Mary M. Murry, R.N., C.N.M.
What would you do for your child?
I know that I'd give any of my children a kidney. I come to their defense and I tell them when they're wrong. I love them bigger than the sky. Did I forget to mention give them money? We won't talk about that.
It was the same when I was pregnant. I changed many habits for the sake of my babies. I ate differently — and no more beer on a hot summer day!
Undoubtedly, you'll do these things and more. After all, you want to do everything in your power to ensure a healthy baby. For your baby's sake, please add the Tdap vaccine to your list.
The CDC recommends the Tdap vaccine — which offers protection from whooping cough (pertussis), tetanus and diphtheria — for all pregnant women, regardless of when you had your last Tdap or tetanus-diphtheria (Td) vaccine. Ideally, the vaccine should be given between 27 and 36 weeks of pregnancy.
Whooping cough can be especially dangerous — even life-threatening — for infants. Getting the Tdap vaccine during pregnancy can help protect you from the infection and might also help protect your baby after birth.
As you plan for the new person who'll soon be a part of your life, add the Tdap vaccine to your list.
10 comments posted
May 23, 2013 6:07 p.m.
how dare you recommend this vaccine...have you even read the clinical study trial results SO FAR on this recommendation...not to mention THE STUDY IS CONTINUING UNTIL 2014...By suggesting this is completly safe this early on is abusing the trust we as patients have in our dr's as well as abusing our trust in the cdc....get your facts straight before you openly try to convince women and children to make an irriversal decision..
- janet
April 22, 2013 Noon
We are NOT vaccine deficient. Mamas, please, do not start injecting these synthetic toxins, bacteria, viruses and adjuvants and heavy metals like aluminum into your body. You HAVE an immune system, USE IT! You do NOT need to inject this fear mongering nonsense into your body to protect your baby. Pregnancy and birth area about as safe as life gets, it is exactly what nature intended for our species to survive. To say you are putting your unborn or your newborn at risk because you didn't get some vaccine which has only been used in pregnant women in the last few years (even after millions of years of life on earth!!!) is ludicrous and the insanity should be labeled on those suggesting such a thing not those questioning it. PLEASE mamas, read the inserts that come with these vaccines. SEE that there is ABSOLUTELY NO (0) research on these things regarding pregnant women, newborns, children etc. And any of these drugs tested on anyone is always done in sickly, 3rd world countries so they can select only the info they want you to know about. PLEASE RESEARCH EVERYTHING, do not just stick this stuff into your body. You can support your body to use it's own functioning immune system and protect your baby as Nature intended. You are NOT vaccine deficient!
- Mema
April 20, 2013 8:00 a.m.
Seriously? You avoid all toxins possible when pregnant, you stay away from tylenol, lunchmeat, fish with mercury etc, but you are willing to inject toxic ingredients into your body for an unproven relationship between this vaccine and "transferred immunity"? There are NO studies that says this works, in fact this vaccine does NOT work per the CDC's own facts. 85% of the cases of whooping cough this year were in the fully vaccinated. I am so tired of the medical community pushing vaccines.
- Michelle
April 16, 2013 11:10 p.m.
I have been seeing a very interesting PA the last several weeks during my pregnancy. I have had multiple problems with her throughout this time. Today, I asked to receive the whooping cough vaccination - after she first told me wrong information about receiving the shot, and insisting I fill out paperwork about the flu shot rather than the paperwork for the whooping cough shot we were finally on the same page. The nurse came in to administer the shot and told me it was going to hurt really badly. I hate shots and I turned the other way. I never felt a thing, not even a poke! She said I didn't need a bandaid and sent me on my way. My question is - shouldn't I feel like I got a shot? Everything I've read says the TDaP is one of the most painful shots and I should be sore for several days. Like I said, I feel nothing, can't tell where it was can't see anything... Did I get the right shot!?
- Amanda
March 31, 2013 4:23 p.m.
@ Maddie Please discuss the need to get the booster within a year a booster with your care provider. None of the MC's I work with would recommend a 2nd dose this soon. I am not an MD. I don;t know you medical history. Neither do any of the other commenters. ' Wishing a heallthy pregnancy and beautiful birth
- Joy
March 18, 2013 8:01 p.m.
I wanted to give you a link to the CDC so you can review the information available. www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/pertussis/fs-par
ents.html This is for parents. The next link is to the CDC vaccines site. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/pertussis /default.htm#ref - Mary@Mayo
March 11, 2013 1:02 p.m.
Please post a link to the studies that have been done to show the safety of this vaccine on pregnant women. I've heard too many stories about medicines that were once believed to be OK only to find out they were not.
- jenni
March 5, 2013 4:25 p.m.
I'm at 25 weeks and I got the Tdap about a month before I got pregnant. Should I get the Tdap again toward the end of the pregnancy?
- Mattie
March 4, 2013 5:32 p.m.
Elizabeth, I would make arrangements to get the shot and not wait for the birth. It will give you more time for the baby to get the passive immunity.
- Mary@Mayo
February 27, 2013 4:56 a.m.
Do I need to make arrangements to get the tdap shot or will they give me the shot in the hospital? I am currently at 37 weeks.
- Elizabeth
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