DTAP vaccine during late pregnancy?

[XMaybebabyX]

My midwife has brought it up a few times. She is highly encouraging me to get it to help protect the baby when he arrives in January. What do you all think? Is it really necessary? She is concerned because there is an outbreak in my area. :( I don't even take tylenol when preggo.......( or not preggo for that matter....lol ) I don't know how I feel about this. I thought that IF I decided to get it, I would wait until after the baby is born, but everything that I have read highly encourages it in late pregnancy because the antibodies will go to the baby before they are born. I don't see why its necessary at all though. I'm going to bf my baby, so he is already going to get antibodies, without the vax. :(

[tabi_cat1023]

I personally refuse to get any vaccine while pregnant because they have NOT been tested on pregnant women and theres no telling what it does to the growing baby

[JoJoBean8]

Heck no

[Juniper53098]

I would not get it for all the above mentioned reasons AND the fact that most of the people getting pertussis are VACCINATED.  So, that tells me that the vaccine doesn't work anyway.

[PEEK05]

I'm not getting it done.  I am 33 weeks tomorrow. It's not something I vaccinate my kids for either.

[XMaybebabyX]

I refused it again yesterday at my appt. she seemed fine with my final decision

[NDFanatik]

Ha, no. 

[Nee86]

I would not do it.
I asked my OB about this when I was pregnant with my dd. Thay OB was really up on the lastest research and she advised against getting it during pregnancy. She was worried about the long term effects because there was no research to show what could be be the long term effects.