Help for you and your baby
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Help for you and your baby is a website that will help you know what to expect from health services, from when you find out you are pregnant to when your child is two years old.
This will help you know what to expect and will answer many of the pregnancy questions you have. Learn how to book appointments, how many appointments to expect, what immunisations to have, and what to expect during labour and after baby’s birth.
Help for you and baby – Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership
We’re particularly eager on helping expecting parents get their Whooping Cough and RSV immunisation.
Whooping Cough:
- Whooping cough immunisations can be gotten between 16 and 32 weeks.
- Whooping cough spreads very easily and it can last several weeks or months, it can make babies under 6 months seriously unwell.
- Young babies will get bouts of coughing and may have difficulty breathing, often gasping for breath between coughs.
- Having the immunisation in pregnancy is the only way you can protect your baby from developing whooping cough in their first few weeks after birth.
RSV:
- RSV immunisations can be gotten from 28 weeks.
- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of coughs and colds. In babies, RSV can cause breathing problems that may need to be treated in hospital. The virus is a common cause of a type of chest infection called bronchiolitis, and can cause a serious lung infection called pneumonia.
- Having the RSV immunisation in pregnancy reduces your baby’s risk of severe lung infection by around 70% in the first 6 months of life.
