Coronavirus COVID-19

  On 6/27/2021 at 11:29 AM, Amen Warrior said:

I'm pfully pfizered now, my now heavily pregnant wife is completely unvaxed because the guidance (UK) for a most of the pregnancy was to not get it.

That guidance has subsequently changed, as of a month ago I think, but the reasons were a bit wishy washy so we decided she should just get it after the baby. Due august 9th.

We keep swinging between "it's the right decision" and "we're making a terrible mistake".

Give us medical advice please watmm

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  On 6/27/2021 at 11:34 AM, Nil said:

My wife got her 1st Pfizer shot in her 3rd trimester of pregnancy (following official guidance here in France) and her second one after our daughter’s birth (she arrived a tad early, on June 1st). Not a single side effect.

I also got my 2 shots of Pfizer, and experienced exhaustion after the 2nd one. But I’m pretty sure it was because of sleep deprivation from night bottle-feeding. 

  On 6/27/2021 at 12:36 PM, danshoebridge said:

My wife had her 1st shot given about a month after our daughter was born. You'll probably find the obstetrics ward pretty locked down (1/2hr visit from just yourself allowed), after release we just kept visitor numbers at home sensible (3 other people basically) until the shots were out the way. Plenty of park meetings though, good excuse to get the pram and get out of the house.

  On 6/27/2021 at 12:39 PM, Soloman Tump said:

Lots of lockdown sexy time for watmm crew!

Babies galore!

Congrats, all!!  I had a pandemic baby, as well. It was at the end of last year (we had gotten pregnant right before covid started). It's been an insane year and a half of being stuck at home, watching my wife get bigger and then having a baby and now we have a big baby about to crawl. We are just now starting to venture out in the world with the baby and she's starting to exclusively meet other vaccinated friends and other babies that have been getting antibodies through breastfeeding magic. Still nervous taking baby into shops/etc because of the non-specific news of antibody protection. Crazy world, y'all.

  On 6/27/2021 at 3:11 PM, Rubin Farr said:

We need a list of the most IDM baby names then

My wife suggested naming the baby "Banana" and was mostly serious.  I suggested naming the baby "Metallica" and was mostly serious.  

  On 6/27/2021 at 7:00 PM, J3FF3R00 said:

My wife suggested naming the baby "Banana" and was mostly serious.  I suggested naming the baby "Metallica" and was mostly serious.  

Banallica 

Metalana

Betallica

Mananalla

Benanala

...

  On 6/27/2021 at 12:39 PM, Soloman Tump said:

Lots of lockdown sexy time for watmm crew!

Babies galore!

  On 6/27/2021 at 3:11 PM, Rubin Farr said:

We need a list of the most IDM baby names then

We named our baby girl of two weeks Eres. Not at all a common name here in Belgium, so locally it's pretty IDM, I guess.

Also, congrats to all the other parentinos here!

We Are The Baby Makers

During pregnancy, our daughter codename was :

For a minute, we considered using it as her middle-name.

Congrats to all the baby makers and parents around!

  On 6/27/2021 at 7:00 PM, J3FF3R00 said:

 

 

 

 

Congrats, all!!  I had a pandemic baby, as well. It was at the end of last year (we had gotten pregnant right before covid started). It's been an insane year and a half of being stuck at home, watching my wife get bigger and then having a baby and now we have a big baby about to crawl. We are just now starting to venture out in the world with the baby and she's starting to exclusively meet other vaccinated friends and other babies that have been getting antibodies through breastfeeding magic. Still nervous taking baby into shops/etc because of the non-specific news of antibody protection. Crazy world, y'all.

 

My wife suggested naming the baby "Banana" and was mostly serious.  I suggested naming the baby "Metallica" and was mostly serious.  

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Rorschach 

Our kid popped out Feb 22, 2020, the lockdown in Finland started a few weeks after that. My five weeks of parental leave every other week was transmogrified into 16 months of WFH and an intense continuous introduction to parenting. Now I'm on vacation for seven weeks - three weeks of actual vacation time (fully paid) and four weeks of parental leave (with 80 % of my monthly pay from the government ERMAHGERD SOCIALISM) - after which the kid goes to daycare. The SO is getting the second jab in two weeks, I'm getting mine in four. Life's good and getting better - 58,4 % of Finns have had one, 17,8 % have had two doses.

  On 6/27/2021 at 6:16 PM, Nil said:

One of the benefits of the pandemic is that visits at the hospital are suspended

fuck is wrong with you?

  On 6/27/2021 at 9:25 PM, BCM said:

fuck is wrong with you?

I suppose I’ve expressed myself way too succinctly. The lack of visits was surprisingly beneficial for all the mothers and newborns in the department : imagine the calm and subsequent rest for them.

Only fathers allowed to visit, though not allowed to spend the night there, which is stupid as it would reduce workload for midwives and nurses during nightshifts. Lots of non-medical stuffs fathers can help with in such context.

It’s my first kid but the 2nd one for my wife, and she really appreciated the silence in the maternity hospital compared to the environing agitation and noise for the birth if her son 7 years ago.

On the other hand, they’ve reduced the stay at the hospital at its minimum,  which is 2 nights after birth.

delta variant seems in line with other variants. 

A response to that WSJ article:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1408500890999328770.html

I don't get it. Vaccines are annoying and clingy?

my immune system was also just dying to get to know polio and TB before I was unfairly vaccinated against them. he (yes, my immune system is a straight cis male, get over it twitterati) knows for sure he could've taken them in a fight.

  On 6/29/2021 at 11:13 AM, Stickfigger said:

Had my second shot today ... been feeling like shit the last few days with a cold. Feel like shit now too, just with an achy arm 

Doing some stretching after the jab can help with the muscle pain

  On 6/29/2021 at 11:49 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Doing some stretching after the jab can help with the muscle pain

cobblers, apparently > 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/22/windmills-of-your-mind-viral-covid-jab-hack-placebo-effect-at-best-say-doctors

i've had both. arm ache lasted seven weeks from first. when i had the second, woman told me to relax my arm. she could probably see it was tense. no pain at all from the second one. that's the key : relax. just a little prick.

  On 6/29/2021 at 3:11 PM, logboy said:

cobblers, apparently > 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/22/windmills-of-your-mind-viral-covid-jab-hack-placebo-effect-at-best-say-doctors

i've had both. arm ache lasted seven weeks from first. when i had the second, woman told me to relax my arm. she could probably see it was tense. no pain at all from the second one. that's the key : relax. just a little prick.

As someone with chronic pain, stretching is extremely beneficial, and again helped me after my jab. Fuck all if they wanna do the windmill.

  On 6/29/2021 at 11:49 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Doing some stretching after the jab can help with the muscle pain

That helps to ensure the nabobots reach your brain quicker 

Quite happy I managed to get my appointment for my second dose moved up to next week (was originally scheduled for September). Soon I'll be a two-doser, and all the schlubby one-dosers can stuff it (until they get their second dose when they will be welcomed back into society).

Also with Ontario reopening, we went out for dinner the other night on a patio. Fucking surreal. A year and a half it's been.

  On 6/30/2021 at 1:18 PM, Soloman Tump said:

That helps to ensure the nabobots reach your brain quicker 

we solved that problem decades ago

JnJ vaccine shows strong persistence of immune response at month 8 (in a small cohort of ~20), and a strong response against all variants of concern including the delta variant.

Corona is like money and train tickets: if you go outside, you have to be aware of them beforehand. It's the consumer stuff that pop culture is made of.

  On 6/30/2021 at 3:13 PM, randomsummer said:

JnJ vaccine shows strong persistence of immune response at month 8 (in a small cohort of ~20), and a strong response against all variants of concern including the delta variant.

For JnJ vaccine, no booster needed for delta variant, and no general booster needed until likely 12 - 24 months after the first dose.