Was I supposed to know this?

[beansprout]

Ds has chicken pox and I am 37 weeks preg. I had an ante-natal check up today and the GP told me off (and I mean told off!) for bringing him into the surgery as there may have been pregnant women there.

Dh was there yesterday and the first thing she asked was how he was, and I know dh raised the c/pox with her then as he needs to establish his own immunity (or otherwise).

She said that I should have notified reception so we could have been shown to a side room to wait for my appointment but there are no signs to this effect (or for any other illnesses preg. women should stay away from, e.g. rubella).

I felt bad as I know what the risks are but thought that keeping him away from anyone else while we were waiting was all I could do.

Is this standard practice? Have I missed something?

I went to an out-of-hours surgery with ds when he was 3 mo with suspected chicken pox - the surgery knew that he had spots, that the symptoms were quite likely to be chicken pox etc etc - and we just were told to wait in the normal waiting area. I might add that it took 3 days after the appearance of the first spot to diagnose chickenpox as ds was exclusively bf so everyone discounted cp as 'they don't get it if they are bf'.

I might add that we mentioned that we thought it was chicken pox when we arrived and still had no separate room to wait in, despite being at an infectious stage.

Beansprout, it sounds as though, if ds scabbed over, no longer infectious, so don't beat yourself up - and different surgeries have different proceedures and unless they make it clear, how are you to know...

Wow.

Asperger's Syndrome happens to be a subject I am interested in and know quite a bit about. A good friend has AS and conversations with him have intrigued me about his viewpoint. Very intelligent, very successful (corporate lawyer), yet he is very often perplexed about the emotional reactions his statements cause.

All I said was that this conversation left me wondering if this is what it feels like to have no clue why people are jumping on you with emotional replies, saying you are rude etc.

And now even saying that is 'offensive'?

I will now bid you all a very good day and go elsewhere because it seems to be open day on yours truly and whatever I say at this point will be offensive for some reason.

cote
sorry don't know you ..total sympathy with op and disagree with you completely
but I think if anyone starts a thread they realise they're not necessarily going to hear what they want to hear

people should stick their necks out always even when it's unpopular
otherwise it all gets a bit silly and luvvie

One last thing: Never thought of him as SN. His only Special Need is a couple of more friends who appreciate him for who he is, despite the inappropriate subjects he likes to talk about.

well, i am not going to try and explain why i found your comment offensive, especially as you are perplexed as to why your initial comment was so it is not open day on you, whoever would have posted what you did, i would have given the same responses. sorry if that upsets you , i certainly would not do that deliberately.

One last thing from me - Cote you are wrong that newborns can't catch chickenpox. My aunt caught it from my mother when my aunt was a tiny baby and was exclusively breastfed. Yes the risk of catching it is reduced but it is possible...