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Pregnancy and COVID Vaccine Update. In this episode, I share the latest research on the recommended vaccine for pregnant women. Last year we thought that pregnant women were at low risk for COVID-19 and its complication. Currently, studies have shown that pregnancy puts women at higher risk for COVID severe disease than women who are not pregnant. https://youtu.be/OrKBWiScExQ **** Congratulations on your pregnancy! Welcome to the Mother Baby Daddy Podcast where you will learn everything you need to know to help prevent pregnancy complications and have a healthy happy baby. I will also chat with experts, mothers, and dads to bring you the best information. I will cover many topics that are important to you including pregnancy, prenatal care, postnatal care, delivery, and more. If this sounds like something you…

Early on, we health care providers thought that pregnancy was in some way protective from severe covid. Now, we know better. Research has shown that contracting COVID while you are pregnant is associated with extremely higher rates of deaths, preeclampsia, high blood pressure, preterm birth, and infections. In fact, pregnant women are more than 22 times likely of dying from COVID than women who are not pregnant. COVID while pregnant was associated with a very high risk of illnesses and death in women during postpartum especially if the mom has COVID systems. Pregnant women have been shown to experience long-term effects otherwise know as a long-hauler effect. Also, COVID during pregnancy could put your baby at a much higher risk of bad things happening, which the studies called poor outcomes.…