I have a real dilemma. My partner has swine flu and although a week ago I was panicking that I had been into contact with someone I am actually quite calm that he has it, I am 18 weeks pregnant.
My issue is that we are due to drive to France next Tues. My partner is recovering well and although it was nasty he dealt with it fine. Myself and my two children (3 and 5) have no symptons whatsoever but am aware they could develop at any time.

Should we go away at all? The thing I am worried about most is getting the symptons on our travels. We are covered on our travel insurance for both cancellation and illness. This is our main family holiday and the kids cannot wait but am I putting them at risk by taking them away.

I am quite a logically person and now that the serious risk is small but can't fine out any info enaywhere. If we get in france who do we contact for example. Someone has told me you go to a chemist which will provide tmaiflu or the other one for pregnant people. Any advise will be greatly received.

Hi all - I am about 5 weeks pregnant and a diabetic (which is well controlled) and spoke to my GP about swine flu couple days ago. She emphasised it is really v mild at the minute (she had visited someone with it) and that it should not cause problems to the baby. An inhaler coming out in Aug/Sept apparently

I'm 31 weeks pg and have a dd 2.9. 2 weeks ago i had what i considered to be a terrible cold made worse by being pregnant. Had runny nose, sort throat, achy muscles, fever and general malaise. Stayed in bed for 2 days and slept, all the symptoms apart from the noseand sore throat went away they took about 10 days to clear.

Assumed it was nasty cold, could it have been swine flu? Haven't been in direct contact with anyone who's had it as far as i know. Have seen patients at work (CAMHS) who have cases of it in their school (but they don't have it) and went to an in-patient unit yesterday for a meeting where there was a big sign on the door saying not to go in unless absolutely neccessary due to "viral infection". Am assuming it must be swine flu.

Just abit worried about the implications really, would rather get it now and fight it off than nearer due date, also worried about new babe getting it in winter.

Is it really so much worse for pg women? Dh has come home from work with a streaming nose, sore throat and feeling terrible but again thinks it's a cold not swine flu. Should he phone gp?

Sorry lots of questions just like to be prepared!

sorry- "daughter's school". Actually two in her class.

A few girls in daughter's have been confirmed as having swine flu. Daughter and her siblings finish school for the summer tomorrow, and they all seem well on the whole, so I'm hoping we'll escape it while I'm still pregnant (am 34+3 now). Hope we don't get it while the baby is still tiny though.

Thanks Headfairy
Hope you escape it and if not then you get a mild dose of it.
Take care x

devotion, someone in my office has swine flu and I rang our GP for advice. He said that as it was relatively mild at the moment I shouldn't worry. If I had been exposed I couldn't stop getting it as Tamiflu isn't recommended in pregnancy, and if I did get it I should keep my temp down but that was it. There was no other way of treating it. There is currently no vaccine for Swine Flu, the current flu jab won't protect you against swine flu as it is a different strain. The swine flu vaccine will be available from about October and they'll start giving it to high risk groups. I didn't ask about whether that included pg people, figured I'd wait until October and ask again (if I hadn't already had swine flu by then)

can you get the flu jab when you are pregnant?

Boffinmum - sorry this thread has brought up painful memories for you. Can not imagine how sad that time was for you.

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PS I am going to bf until epidemic is over.

Don't want to discuss it now for a bit. However thanks for interest.