Food poisoning and less baby movements.

[frances123]

Hi, had food poisoning on friday at least I think it was. felt awful on sat also but since I was sick I have not felt the baby moving much. dont get me wrong she has moved but before being sick her movements where regular as clockwork maybe Im just being over paranoid.
should I go to the hospital??? I'm 26 and 5 by the way
xxx

id phone midwife or hospital

I'd go to hospital yes have a check on baby, just to be sure but I also had food poisoning when I was 8 weeks pregnant, I took every over the counter drug going, had sickness for 3 weeks, couldnt hold a thing down. Baby was fine.

Phone your midwife in the morning - wouldn't bother going to hospital esp at this time on a Sunday night.

The most important thing is to look after yourself, which in turn looks after the baby - keep yourself properly hydrated, eat a little of what you fancy and don't go into work tomorrow unless you feel 100%.

You'll be fine

From my knowledge, stomach food poisioning the vomiting, diaherrea one gets out of your system fairly quickly, and can not harm baby too much. It is the listeria strain, more flu like sypmtoms that get into the blood system that can hurt baby, it does usually take weeks and sypmtoms can be hard to diagnose. So you need a blood test.

I hope you are feeling sronger movements now, and are also feeling better yourself, otherwise go get a check up.