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Get your Flu shot early if you are pregnant!Gynos must not be answering the questions correctly. Since the 1950s flu shots have been recommended in pregnancy but vaccination rates for pregnant women have generally been below 15%. Now that the publicity around swine flu has helped to get awareness of the serious nature of this disease it is estimated that vaccination rates have at least doubled to over 30% in the past couple of years, but we can do better! Although a woman can get vaccinated at any point during her pregnancy, and at any point during the flu season or out of season, the maximum benefits have been thought to line the pregnant ones up first and vaccinate them as early in the flu season as possible! In the March issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology a study has been published that looked at how well protected pregnant women were relative to when they got their vaccine. Specifically what they wanted to know as whether getting vaccinated early in pregnancy, verses in the th...