Concern for pregnant women is increasing due to more aggressive variants of the Covid at the same time that hospitalizations and ICU admissions increase. For this reason, gynecologists and organizations such as the WHO recommend vaccination in pregnant women to avoid serious complications.
The course that ended in June, the first full one that has been experienced in a pandemic, has been especially hard for Spanish parents, even more than for those from the rest of Europe. This has been confirmed by a survey of the parents of 3,000 Spanish, French, German and Austrian students, carried out by the GoStudent platform, to detect how they have lived their children's last school year.
It is normal for pregnant women to feel confused about the news that we are learning about Covid, since they are often contradictory. A few days ago we commented on the results of a large reassuring study that ensured that Covid-19 infection in pregnancy does not cause more premature births and now we know a new one, also quite broad, which assures the opposite: that pregnant women with Covid have greater risk of having a premature birth.
No one doubts the important benefits of breastfeeding. Among others, it protects the baby from common diseases in the short and long term, as well as reducing the mother's risk of cancer and other ailments.
It is no secret to any parent that the pandemic has changed our lives, and has multiplied the work involved in parenting. The confinement and closures of nurseries and schools led us to such a rapid reorganization of our routines that in many homes we had to sacrifice working hours in favor of childcare. What a new study carried out by the Center for Global Development has shown is that this work was taken over mostly by women and that, although to a different extent taking into account the income level of the countries, this occurred all over the world.
Before vaccines were available, it was possible to detect the presence of antibodies in the breast milk of women who had had the disease. Then we were able to confirm this transfer of protection also through vaccines.
The clinical trials of the Covid-19 vaccines did not include pregnant women, therefore, the recommendation so far is to assess the risks and benefits in each case. Many pregnant women have decided to get vaccinated because they have a higher risk of complications or because they are exposed to a high risk of contagion, such as health workers, police officers, teachers or nursing home workers.
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