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I would usually agree with the whole money money money and while it is still probably true. I know a few and no of a few more people/children that have had it in the past 3 months IRL by the way lol! It is your totally up to you and your partner. Considering it was free when I was pregnant for parents/ careers/grandparents/ the elderly and children it still seems to be going around pretty strong.
I have never had the flu shot. I've never had the flu, either. So I can't answer. some ppl I know are like me, and others I know have gotten the flu shot then gotten the flu. Then other ppl I know say if they don't get the flue shot one year, they get the flu. I just got on my personal history and don't get one.
This doesn't relate to pregnancy so much, but after I had my youngest, my whole family got whooping cough (pertussis). my husband and I, who were vaccinated for it, as well as my kids, who were also vaccinated for it. We stopped vaccinating when the kids were a little older, so we weren't going to be vaccinating our newborn. Well, he wouldn't have been old enough for that vaccine anyway by time we got sick. So it turned out, that newborn (surrounded by 2 children and 2 adults with pertussis in a small apartment, all sick for about 4 months) was the only one not to get sick. Meanwhile, all use vaccinated people suffered the worst cold of our lives!
A vaccine doesn't STOP you from getting the disease. It gives your body a better platform for fighting the disease and minimises the risk of getting it. But it doesn't stop it unless you're body becomes immune to the disease.
The antibodies help fight the disease. It gives young children a higher chance of survival and lessens the chance of serious damage being done (i.e. brain damage, paralyses, etc).
That you can't get the disease because you are vaccinated is a common myth. It isn't true. You can, you might and if people don't vaccinate the chance of you getting it is higher. If people vaccinate the chance of you getting it is lower because its harder for the disease to grip hold of people.
And to answer the question about superbugs:
Viruses and bacteria's are living as well. Not in the sense that we may understand life, but they are alive - that means they are capable of evolving as much as we are. When something can fight them and kill them, they will evolve a way to resist it. Of course modern science is to blame for this, but would you rather go back to when nearly 50% of all children died before reaching adulthood? We DO have a lot to thank modern science for, even if you are sceptic of it.
I don't necessarily believe in bio-medics all the time. I refuse to take antibiotics unless I absolutely have to, the same with my children. I don't take pain killers unless I can't stand it and I refused pain relief when I had both boys because I ddin't believe it was good for them. But sometimes you've got to look at the bigger picture!
It is my not a vaccination i am much more about giving about weaving the babes vaccines after they are a born