MRSA superbug - are we at risk with catheters, open wounds etc

[bunny2]

I knew I'd find something else to fret about! With all the news stories about MRSA, I am feeling slightly apprehensive about giving birth in hospital. It seems to me that women giving birth are ideal targets for these bugs - we often need catheters, ivs, have c-sections, rips and tears etc. Also, after 9 months of pregnancy our immune systems are pretty useless. How vulnerable are we?

Does anyone know more about this?

nearly all the nursing staff/midwives/HCA's washed their hands before handling DS, or doing any examinations on me

You are quite right MTS. I should have rembered that because I was very healthy in hospital with jaundiced babies for 2 weeks!

re: loads of visitors.

a friend of a friend apparently refused to go home because she'd arranged for all her mates to visit her that evening!

I can only imagine the look on the midwife's face..........