PREGNANT healthcare workers who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 are encouraging other women to come forward for the jab.

Midwife Sarah Cowen, who is pregnant with her first child, said she was initially "unsure" if she should get vaccinated, but felt comfortable to get the jab after reading up about it and seeing colleagues she respected get vaccinated.

"Like most (pregnant women), I feel like my decisions are affecting somebody else now," Ms Cowen said.

It was seeing obstetrician colleagues getting the vaccine that "really made me feel comfortable getting it as well, because I really respect them and their knowledge, and they're not going to make decisions that are unsafe", she said.

The Federal Government updated the national vaccine eligibility checker to include pregnant women this week, two weeks after they were made a priority in the rollout and were put in phase 1b.

Healthcare professionals are now urging pregnant women to come forward and get vaccinated.

For neonatal clinical nurse specialist Clare Almond, getting the COVID-19 vaccine felt like a "big decision", but seeing local COVID-19 cases in Mildura convinced her to get the jab.

"When we had local cases, our risk changed," she said.

"That's what persuaded me -- I started to feel more uncomfortable not having it than going ahead and getting it.

"I chatted to my maternity provider to find out my own personal risk with the vaccine, and there weren't any extra precautions or any reason why I couldn't do this."

Mildura Base Public Hospital director of pharmacy Ben Marchant said getting vaccinated against coronavirus was "one of the things (pregnant women) can do to protect themselves and their family and their newborn as well".

"They are a high risk group -- that's why they've been brought forward in terms of the categories and the phase of the rollout."

For advice on COVID-19 vaccinations for pregnant women, visit the Department of Health website.