Posted on 04/06/2021 12:15:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
Nursing mothers who receive a COVID-19 vaccine may pass protective antibodies to their babies through breast milk for at least 80 days following vaccination, suggests new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
"Our study showed a huge boost in antibodies against the COVID-19 virus in breast milk starting two weeks after the first shot, and this response was sustained for the course of our study, which was almost three months long," said first author Jeannie Kelly, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology. "The antibodies levels were still high at the end of our study, so the protection likely extends even longer."
Based on the small study, involving five mothers who provided frozen breast milk samples after receiving the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the research provides some of the first peer-reviewed evidence that breastfeeding confers a long-lasting immune response in the nursing infants and toddlers of vaccinated mothers.
"There is so much vaccine misinformation out there right now—really scary, misleading posts on social media that are designed to scare moms—so we felt like we needed to look at the science," Kelly said. "We know that these types of antibodies coat babies mouths and throats and protect against disease when a baby is drinking breast milk. So, getting vaccinated while breastfeeding not only protects mom, but also could protect the baby, too, and for months."
Published March 30 in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the study tracked levels of COVID-19 antibodies in breast milk from a baseline before the mothers' first vaccinations and on a weekly basis for 80 days after those initial vaccinations.
While other recent research has shown that COVID-19 vaccines generate antibodies that are passed to nursing infants through breast milk, this is thought to be the first study to track specific levels of these antibodies in breast milk over an extended time period.
The babies of women included in the study ranged in age from one month to 24 months old. To gauge immune response in the breast milk, researchers monitored levels of the immunoglobulins IgA and IgG, which are antibodies deployed by the immune system to fight infections in babies.
Findings confirm that breast milk contains elevated levels of the IgA and IgG antibodies immediately following the first dose of vaccination, with both antibodies reaching immune-significant levels within 14 to 20 days of first vaccination in all participants.
"Our study is limited by a small number of participants, but the findings provide encouraging news about the potential immune benefit to breast-feeding infants after vaccination," said study senior author Misty Good, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics, also at Washington University. "Our paper is the first that has shown COVID-19 antibodies persist in breast milk for months following the mother's vaccination."
The Washington University findings are similar to prior studies on maternal vaccination, which have shown high levels of antibodies in breast milk for up to six months following vaccination for influenza and whooping cough.
While further studies of maternal COVID-19 vaccination are needed to characterize the length of antibody production in breast milk and the effect on infant infection rates, recent research continues to confirm that the COVID-19 vaccine offers real benefits for protecting both mother and child.
"We do know that COVID-19 infection is more severe during pregnancy and the main benefit of vaccination is to provide protection for moms before they become really sick, which can also be dangerous to their fetus," Kelly said. "There have now been almost 70,000 pregnant people vaccinated against COVID 19 with no evidence of harm."
"We're now seeing a cascade of new data that indicate maternal vaccines are also going to help protect babies—both through transfer of antibodies through the placenta during pregnancy and through the breast milk during lactation," Kelly said. "This is information we didn't have a few months ago and it's really helping us better counsel our patients who are considering getting the vaccine. I'm telling my pregnant and breastfeeding moms that I strongly recommend that they get vaccinated as soon as possible."
More information: Jeannie C. KELLY et al, Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies induced in breast milk after Pfizer-BioNTech/BNT162b2 vaccination, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2021.03.031 Journal information: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
The operative word is ... MAY
May!?!? So reassuring!
assuming Mom survives the vaccine....
TUESDAY, March 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The sooner a pregnant woman gets a COVID-19 vaccine, the more likely she is to transfer protective antibodies to her baby, a new, small study suggests.
There are known risks regarding mRNA vaccinations and it’s sickening the general public is not being informed. It’s monsterous to see pregnant women not being given informed consent (i.e., denying them access to critical information). The CDC et. al. are concealing risks from the public because more would refuse the vaccine and demand FDA approved drugs Ivermecting, HCQ etc.
At the link in the NIH’s database of accepted research is a report saying that vaccine trial participants SHOULD HAVE been told about the increased risk of ADE, and all future patients SHOULD BE warned. On the CDC’s website, no mention of documented risk of ADE, even on the page for pregnant women.
Excerpt: “Conclusions drawn from the study and clinical implications: The specific and significant COVID-19 risk of ADE should have been and should be prominently and independently disclosed to research subjects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for the trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet the medical ethics standard of patient comprehension for informed consent.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33113270/
Since discovery of mRNA technology in 2005, animal trials repeatedly demonstrated that the vaccinated animals develop antibodies as expected, but then when exposed to Covid, their immune systems overheat and they die. Usually, this effect does not start until the 3-6 month window. The vaccine trials were therefore 2-3 months in length.
Not to start a rumor, but maybe the shots also create mixed-gender babies... /s
And the three-eyed babies will have 20/20/20 vision.
Well, the first human Moderna vaccinations were done in mid-March 2020. Since then 108 million Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. How many cases of ADE have occurred? Hint... it’s ZERO. Go find yet another imaginary vaccine boogie man in your continual (but unsuccessful) attempt to keep people from getting vaccinated.
Instead of trying to make sense of your assertions, and being asked to believe drug companies will report to us after the conclusion of their vaccine trials, I'll just post research in the NIH's Pub Med which demonstrates the risk of ADE is well established and all should be warned.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33113270/
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Conclusions drawn from the study and clinical implications: The specific and significant COVID-19 risk of ADE should have been and should be prominently and independently disclosed to research subjects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for the trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet the medical ethics standard of patient comprehension for informed consent."
It's creepy the way you keep trying to deceive people into trusting the vaccine and deny them available research, when you're not shaming them to get vaccinated.
As in EVERYTHING that scientists claims “science” indicates, which is not colored at all by the personal opinion or worldview of the “scientists”.
And the baby.
Bingo. “May” is such a scientific term that really inspires confidence ... sort of like Fauci scientific utterances.
The army needs to know this, for when it deploys the maternity battalions.
Breast milk has antibodies in it from the mother already. Nothing more is needed.
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