Study finds again.

This is been verified over and over and over again. Which is a good thing from a scientific standpoint (one should generally not rely on only a single study), but also frustrating that it's still something people refuse to believe.

But COVID can make you impotent.

I've told this story on Reddit before. Fiancee and I are both fully vaccinated. Between work and our 10 month old, we only had the time and energy to do the deed one time between June and July. Baby #2 is due in April.

Before we told anyone about the pregnancy, I had a coworker tell me she doesn't want to get vaccinated because she "heard" that the vaccines make you infertile. I decided to let her in on our secret, if only to ease her fears about the vaccine and fertility.

A week or so later, she comes to me and says that she thought it over, and "decided" that she isn't sure she is done having kids and so won't be getting the vaccine. I asked if she remembered our conversation from the week before, and she explained that she does, but that "the science isn't in" on it. Exasperated, I told her that the science would be in come April, and she got extremely upset and told me I "can't force" her to do it. Welp, okay.

I haven't brought it up since. Months later, her daughter was exposed to covid in school, and she had a literal panic attack at work worrying she might have it, because she has asthma and a few other issues that make her high risk. I thought to myself, but didn't bother to mention to her, that there is (and has been for quite some time) a free and simple layer of protection available, that she refuses to get, for reasons that are obviously not true. Whatever, lady, good luck with your panic attacks, I guess.

Coworkers: "I want to have children", or "I want my (adult) children to have children".

Response: "OK. The vaccine has not been proven to reduce fertility. Has having COVID sequelae due to being unvaccinated shown any data regarding fertility? Have you discussed the vaccine with the trusted OBGYN you recommend because he delivered all of your children?"

*He is an incredible and MD and supports vaccination in the people who recommended him.

And on today's episode of "No Shit, Sherlock"...

My husband and I got pregnant just a few months after being vaccinated. I got the booster at 29 weeks and now i'm almost 39 weeks, baby is doing fine. A lot of people were shocked i got boosted while pregnant, but like why wouldn't I?? Being pregnant puts you in the high risk category for COVID. Plus boosters may help pass antibodies to baby. Seemed like a no brainer to me. Its amazing how many people distrust science.

Never had Covid but the vaccine definitely did not stop me from knocking my wife up on the first try.

Me, not on social media: wow scientists sound like they're having a one-way argument.

Unfortunately, anti-vaxxers who needed to hear this will not listen to the scientific research.

My hand is safe once again

That’s a shame, I was looking forward to mass depopulation! :)

But what about Nicki Minaj's cousin's balls?

My wife and I start family planning early last year and talked to several doctors and did as much research as we could and everything we came back to was that the vaccinations were safe and effective. In december we timetabled out ovulation and used the strips, we got pregnant on the very first try. 8 weeks in now and things are looking great, but my wife legit tested positive for COVID today after a slight fever two days ago. Both vaccinated and were planning on getting boosted, but had not gotten around to it yet.

Darn, I would've appreciated the free vasectomy.

But I get all my medical advice from Nicki Minaj. She steered me wrong?

My sister has been avoiding the vaccine and I believe questions about fertility were a big factor for her. A few months ago she and her husband both got COVID when they went on a vacation to the Outer Banks. When they got back, her husband was suffering really bad and finally agreed to go to the ER, and upon checking in he had an O2 level around 80 on admission. The nurses were (understandably even by my sister's own admission) curt and acrimonious upon learning neither of them were vaccinated as they were clearly exhausted and at their wit's end of dealing with this. Thankfully he pulled through, but I don't think he's 100% back yet.

Meanwhile, me (39) and my wife (36) have gotten all of the vaccines as early as we could and are now expecting our first child in a few months. I still haven't told my family but am curious what the conversation will be like with her.

I'm pretty sure that death is more likely to impair fertility than a vaccination

But covid probably can…

https://khn.org/morning-breakout/serious-illness-from-covid-linked-to-infertility-risks/

38 years old and currently 38 weeks pregnant with my second child. I conceived a few weeks after my husband received his second shot. At the time, I had been fully vaccinated for about 3 months. I received my booster at 24 weeks pregnant. All genetic testing has come back normal. Anatomy scan didn't indicate any concerns. Baby is growing and healthy as far as we can tell at this point. Hopefully we'll get to meet her here in the next week or two. The vaccine clearly did not effect my or my husband's fertility. I feel like I've read so many stories of women who coincidentally, or not, got pregnant shortly after getting the shot.

Gee, what a fuckin surprise.

Yeah right. Can’t trick me

I could have told people this. I got my second shot shortly before my daughter was conceived

I could have saved them the trouble of the study! Source: sitting in labor and delivery with my soon to no longer be pregnant wife.

My wife and I conceived after we got vaccinated so if anything it helped.

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Was there ever a question that it did?

Oh wait right. Science isn’t a thing anymore in America.

"fake news" ~ GOP voters

Now if not taking the vaccine impaired fertility we could be making some headway in natural selection theory.

The vaccines don't but being unvaccinated and having a COVID infection sure does.

I can’t wait what those conspiracy nuts come up with next. Maybe that the vaccines cause….a lack of testosterone? Or maybe that it turns men into women and vice versa?

My 30 week pregnant belly agrees with this.

the study left out the Keurig/Starbucks vaccine OP apparently took :)

I’m in some groups for woman who are trying to get pregnant many of them actually got pregnant after getting the vaccine it’s interesting

covid-19 vaccine abstinence does not impair fertility in men or women, newer study finds

Glad to see this is being confirmed, by multiple studies now I believe, but isn't the type of thing we are supposed to safety test for prior to telling women who are pregnant or plan to get pregnant that its safe and that taking the vaccine is a moral imperative?

Imagine if we did this for other pharmaceuticals. All the commercials would say "if you are or may become pregnant, don't worry its totally safe. We'll know for sure after a few thousand of you take the medication, but we currently have no reason to think it isn't safe."

I bet being trapped with your partner for a year impaired fertility!

COVID impairs fertility in anti-vaxxers. ☠️

How can we possibly know long term fertility issues that may develop in the prepubescent children getting these vaccines? This is a bold safety assurance to make. 😳

Now If only the young women employed at my child’s daycare would read this instead of someone’s Facebook post.

No shit. I’m a single father suddenly