Pregnant women absolutely need to get a flu shot. Pregnant women actually share some of those similarities to people with chronic diseases and while pregnancy isn't a chronic disease it places special stress on the heart and the lungs and the circulatory system and the immune system and pregnant women if they get the flu are much more likely to be hospitalized and get much sicker with the flu if they happen to get it so they want to get it to protect themselves first and foremost but in addition to that their newborn babies cannot get a flu shot.
You can't get a flu shot until you are 6 months old and newborn babies are very susceptible to getting very sick if they get the flu. If their mother had had a flu shot then the mother's antibodies that are produced are passed on to the baby and the baby has protection for the first six month of his life.
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