Northwestern Medicine says expecting mothers can also pass on protective antibodies to their newborns."This is a really great way to passively protect your baby because, unfortunately, this virus isn’t going away anytime soon," said senior author Dr.
Emily Miller, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University.Researchers studied the blood of 27 pregnant women who’d received either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine in their third trimester, as well as the umbilical cord blood of their 28 newborns. RELATED: Babies can get COVID-19 antibodies from mothers while in the womb, study findsThey learned that women showed a robust immune response after vaccination, suggesting that the vaccine will protect pregnant women from.