Chicken Pox Vax for DS When I'm 6 months Pregnant?

[not_telling]

We're coming up on DS's 3 year old "well baby visit."  We do s/d vaxing.  There are two different vaxes that he hasn't gotten yet...neither of which I'm fully comfortable with, but both of which are "required" by my state for school entry (since we s/d vax I'm not planning on lying and saying we are across the board exempting out...selective exemptions are not allowed in my state) .

The two vaxes are Hep B and Chicken Pox.  I'm definitely more uncomfortable with the Hep B vax, while my issues with the chicken pox vax are more about why it's even necessary.  That said, I'm leaning toward having him get his first Chicken Pox vax at this visit. 

I am 6 months pregnant.  I had a mild case of chicken pox when I was about 8 years old.  CDC says a mild case confers as much immunity as moderate to severe cases.  They say that the risk of a pregnant woman catching CP/Herpes Zoster from a newly vaccinated person is minimal.  And that you're most likely to catch it if the person who was vaxed develops the chicken pox rash and you are exposed to the fluid inside the blisters.  If I was not immune it sounds like the biggest risk to fetus is in the first trimester and in the days before giving birth.  But they don't recommend that pregnant women receive the vaccine themselves until a month after delivery.

Based on this info, I feel like the risk to myself/baby is very low.

Does this sound correct?

[shiningpearl]

just my 2 cents, but before you have your child vaccinated, why don't you have your Titers for chicken pox checked to see where you stand.  (my OB/GYN did them for me when I was pregnant), I never had them as a kid, try as my mom did.  I did have one dose of the vaccine before starting to have children and they checked my  imunity level and I was just on the border for being immune.

And as for catching it from the vax, the only case i know of personally was when the 18 month old got it, the 3 year old sister (who had been vaxed) broke out in them first and then gave them back to the newly vaxed 18 month old. 

[Gismobabe]

If you are worried about your unborn child I guess it depends on whether you have had the chicken pox and are therefore protected. I am from Austria where the chicken pox vaccine just came out and is not a recommended vaccine yet. Two of my kids had the CP and it was not a big thing (except that we were stranded in Thailand because we were not allowed on an airplane). Several kids at the day care were vaccinated and got them anyway, just without the water in the blisters. So the vaccine did not protect them.