As more North Carolinians continue to be vaccinated, some pregnant women are unsure whether the COVID-19 vaccine is right for them.
While the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine have been shown to be 95 percent effective in preventing symptomatic cases of COVID-19, more research is needed to understand how the vaccine affects pregnant women and those trying to conceive.
Neither the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine clinical trials enrolled pregnant women at least purposefully. Some women in the trials were pregnant and did not know it, and researchers are following those pregnancies and newborns.
“It is a standard precaution not to enroll pregnant women for phase III studies,” said Dr. Cynthia Gay, leader of the Moderna clinical trial at UNC. “Based on everything we know about other vaccines and what we know about these vaccines, there’s not a particular safety concern in pregnant women. But we don’t have that safety data of pregnant women having received a vaccine.”
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Watch a mom of three give birth to her fourth child underwater, in a special tub made for birth.
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Narrator: We women love our tub time, and Mary is no exception. As a labor and delivery nurse, she s seen the best and worst of birth. For her, warm water is the ultimate pain reliever during labor.
Mary: I want to use the water to help me cope naturally with the contractions or the surges and to help me deliver the baby in a more calm environment.
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