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Nope, but rubella is a standard part of the test panel from what I'm aware (rubella in pregnancy leads to severe birth defects, miscarriage, or stillbirth).

I was vaccinated as a child, but after some blood work done while preparing for fertility treatments I was shown to be not immune. I had a booster and then was tested again 2 months later to confirm I was immune. I got pregnant without medical intervention shortly after that and even though I was just confirmed immune they made me get the blood work again lol.

I did not make anyone else get tested or a booster... I think that's a bit much to ask of people. Maybe if the threat becomes bigger I'd have a different opinion.

I am in Canada, so at the beginning of the pregnancy they do blood work to look for things like this. Apparently I fall under the small percentage of people who even though they have gotten there two MMR vaccine shots are not immune to measles and etc. At the beginning it didn't really bother me, because it was in the summer and there wasn't this huge outbreak. Now I am getting a little worried. I'll probably get my DH to get their blood work tested and my sister too.

@Mrs. Shuja: You may just need a booster. I was also vaccinated as a child (also in Canada) and I wasn't immune when I was tested. After getting one booster I was confirmed immune. You should get a booster after your pregnancy.

@pui: I'm going to confirm with my doctor on my next appointment on what I should do. Just at the moment you are just at a stand still waiting because you cant take the shot while pregnant.

I think there is likely confusion here. It is standard to get checked for rubella immunity in early pregnancy and repeat MMR (because it us a combo vaccine; there us not a plain rubella vaccine) after delivery if not immune. It is common to not have the rubella immunity take, but NOT common for the measles immunity to not take. Last I heard, all if the measles cases were in those that hadn't been vaccinated at all. If you've been vaccinated, I wouldn't be worried.

where I am in Canada, they just give you the booster shortly postpartum. I actually ended up getting it a couple of times!

I didn't know i was tested for it but i got an mmr boooster in the hospital i think because my ob gyn had found out i wasn't immune. I assumed it was mmr but maybe it was just rubella. All i know is i can't get pregnant in the next couple of months because of birth defects.

I'm from Alberta, Canada. They tested me during pregnancy and found I wasn't immune to Rubella so I got the MMR shot at our 1 week pp checkup. They didn't mention anything about my FI getting checked or getting the booster for that one. They did give both FI and I the dtap shot at the same visit though.

Adding...they told me that after this MMR booster if I am tested during another pregnancy and still not immune they don't give it again as it won't help.

I was tested for immunity and failed both Rubella and Measles. I then got a booster (this was before TTC). During pregnancy, I still didn't have measles immunity, but they didn't want me to get another booster because a third likely wouldn't work. But they did test me for it as a matter of course. This was prior to the outbreak even.