{"id":20877,"date":"2024-09-16T12:16:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/?page_id=20877"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:22:36","slug":"maternity-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/vaccine-services\/maternity-vaccinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternity Vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These are delivered by maternity teams during routine appointments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NHS Scotland recommends three vaccinations for pregnant women, namely the vaccines recommended in the selective immunisation programmes section of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/the-complete-routine-immunisation-schedule\/the-complete-routine-immunisation-schedule-from-february-2022#selective-immunisation-programmes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complete routine immunisation schedule<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsinform.scot\/healthy-living\/pregnancy-and-the-flu-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flu vaccine&nbsp;<\/a>\u2013 at any stage in pregnancy during flu season<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsinform.scot\/healthy-living\/immunisation\/vaccines\/whooping-cough-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whooping cough vaccine<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 from 16 weeks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsinform.scot\/healthy-living\/immunisation\/vaccines\/rsv-vaccine-during-pregnancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RSV vaccine<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 from 28 weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that only inactivated flu vaccine should be given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C.M &amp; K.McK 08-04-25<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are delivered by maternity teams during routine appointments. NHS Scotland recommends three vaccinations for pregnant women, namely the vaccines recommended in the selective immunisation programmes section of the complete routine immunisation schedule: Please note that only inactivated flu vaccine should be given. C.M &amp; K.McK 08-04-25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":21213,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1162],"class_list":["post-20877","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-https-apps-nhslothian-scot-refhelp-maternity-vaccinations"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"heatherlevy","author_link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/author\/heatherlevy\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":" <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/category\/https-apps-testing28-scot-nhs-uk-refhelp-guidelines-community-treatment-and-care-services-ctacs\/https-apps-nhslothian-scot-refhelp-maternity-vaccinations\/\" rel=\"tag\">Maternity Vaccinations<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"These are delivered by maternity teams during routine appointments. NHS Scotland recommends three vaccinations for pregnant women, namely the vaccines recommended in the selective immunisation programmes section of the complete routine immunisation schedule: Please note that only inactivated flu vaccine should be given. C.M &amp; K.McK 08-04-25","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20877"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24274,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20877\/revisions\/24274"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}