I'm about fifteen weeks pregnant. Following a routine urine sample at my first midwife appointment when I was about eight weeks pregnant, I was diagnosed with a UTI for which the midwife prescribed antibiotics, Nitrofurantoin I believe. I took these for as week, as instructed, before providing a second sample to my GP a week after completing the course of tablets. My GP called me to inform me that the sample was still showing an infection and gave me a week of Amoxicillin to take. During a pre-natal appointment on Tuesday, after I had finished the Amoxicillin, the midwife informed me that the infection was still present and they have now recommended that I begin taking ongoing antibiotics, rather than short courses, to try and tackle it.
I have not had accute symptoms from the UTI, increased need to urinate andvery mild stomach pain but nothing else. I am told that UTIs are common in pregnancy but I am concerned by how persistent this one appears to be. I am on medication for rheumatoid arthritis which can lower the body's resistance to infections, but I have not knowingly suffered from many UTIs in the past, though if symptoms were this mild I may well have had them and not realised.
I'm just being hyper-vigilent at the moment because I don't want this to hurt my baby. If anyone has any experience of recurrent UTIs in pregnancy and how you dea lt with it I'd be grateful. I really need some reassurance as this is troubling me.