Rachel, 38, said she was discouraged from having the Covid vaccine in the early days of the rollout
encouraging expectant mothers to get vaccinated and boosted, after data had previously shown the vaccine to be safe in pregnancy.and Social Care cited statistics from the UK Obstetric Surveillance System which showed 96.3% of pregnant women admitted to hospital with Covid-19 symptoms between May and October were unvaccinated, a third of whom required respiratory support.
Rachel, who thanked staff at both New Cross hospital’s integrated critical care unit and Glenfield hospital in Leicester for their care, said it was “really important” everyone had their vaccines. Speaking about her loss, she said: “I didn’t actually know I had given birth. I was on drugs so they wanted to tell me when I wasn’t sedated, and the obstetrician informed me a few days later.