The Misbourne Practice

Maternity Vaccine Service

Our vaccinator will be available Mondays and Thursdays 10am – 2pm
At the ante-natal clinic Stoke Mandeville Hospital
offering the following vaccines

Your questions answered on how to help protect your baby with the whooping cough vaccine!

There is a lot of whooping cough around at the moment and babies who are too young to start their vaccinations are at greatest risk. Expectant mothers can help protect their babies by getting themselves vaccinated against whooping cough from 16 weeks.

The vaccine is sometimes offered after the mid-pregnancy scan around 18 to 20 weeks. The vaccination programme was introduced in 2012 and has already protected many young babies against whooping cough. Because the disease continues to circulate at high levels in older age groups, pregnant women still need to be vaccinated. It is important to be vaccinated with every pregnancy.

You may have thought whooping cough had died out but the number of cases in England and Wales started to increase from late 2011.