Hello, my name is Helga Drury and I'm the lead immunisation midwife for Stepping Hill Maternity Unit. The three vaccines you can have in pregnancy are the flu vaccine. This can be had at any point during your pregnancy. The flu season starts in September and finishes in March. The next vaccine is the whooping cough or pertussis vaccine that can be given from 16 weeks. The third vaccine that you can have which is recommended from 28 weeks is the respiratory syncytial virus. This helps to protect your baby. The antibodies that you produce with all of these vaccines pass through the placenta and help to protect your baby for the first few months. It's really important that if you have toddlers that they have their flu vaccinations, this is given as a nasal spray and will also help to protect your baby.