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Pregancy during lambing season

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CMC13 · 13/04/2025 17:00

Hi, so my partner went walking around a farm with our dog. He went through a field of ewes and lambs that were around 3 weeks old. He said the lambing ewes were in the lambing shed which he didn't enter.
When he got home he let the dog walk up the stairs for a shower and showered him. Then he took his own clothes off and left them on the bedroom floor and went straight for a shower. He forgot to put them in the washing machine, so I went up with gloves on and put them on a wash with Dettol laundry liquid. I then washed my hands thoroughly after taking the gloves off. He also left his boots in the hallway but since I've made him put them outside and mopped and disinfected where the boots were.

I'm pregnant with twins and now terrified germs from the sheep have come into the house. I've read that symptoms of any infection can take 3 weeks to appear. Should I talk to my consultant or should I be ok? He's not going to go again during the 11 weeks of pregnancy I have left.

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TheBuffetInspector · 13/04/2025 17:04

I can only speak as the ex of a farmer who lambs every year.

You'll be fine.

I hope the dog was on a lead.

Arglefraster · 13/04/2025 17:26

Take a few deep breaths. Your babies will be fine.

The risk is from actual lambing/shortly after.
It sounds like the mitigation you used would have kept you safe had DH been helping with a lambing/calving so you are doubly safe.

Your DH shouldn't be taking a dog into a field of new lambs.

Allswellthatendswelll · 13/04/2025 19:18

You'll be fine. We went to a lambing fair a few weeks back when I was 36 weeks. I kept out of the lambing sheds but obviously everyone else around me would have been nearer the lambs including DH and DS.

Dogs shouldn't be going through fields with lambs.

CMC13 · 15/04/2025 14:51

Thank everyone, saw my consultant today and she said it would only be women directly working with/touching sheep they'd worry about, so she wasn't worried at all.

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