Pregnant women

Vaccination protects pregnant women and unborn children from potentially serious diseases such as whooping cough, influenza, bronchiolitis and COVID-19.

Recommended vaccinations

Influenza

Influenza vaccination is recommended for pregnant women during the winter months, using an inactivated vaccine, regardless of the stage of pregnancy.

The flu vaccine is effective in pregnant women: the frequency of complications, hospitalisations and deaths related to influenza is lower in pregnant women who have been vaccinated against influenza. This vaccination also protects newborns during the first 6 months of life.

Whooping cough

This vaccination is recommended during the second or third trimester of pregnancy and can be administered with a combined d-T-ap or d-T-ap-IPV vaccine. For maximum effectiveness, the vaccination is preferably administered during the second trimester (between the 13th and 26th week of gestation), but it can be administered up to the 36th week (or at the latest 2 weeks before delivery).

One dose of vaccine is recommended for each pregnancy, allowing a minimum of 6 months between vaccinations in order to properly protect the newborn.

Bronchiolitis / Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)

Vaccination of all healthy pregnant women with uncomplicated pregnancies giving birth during the period of high RSV circulation (September to February), administered between the 32nd and 36th week of pregnancy.

COVID-19

Vaccination of all pregnant women with additional risk factors for severe COVID-19.