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Contact with rubella - bloods say I'm immune. Can I stop worrying?

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Sunflower100 · 25/03/2009 08:29

A colleagues child had rubella last week - which she only thought to tell me after we'd been chatting for a good 15 minutes and our dds had been playing together. Her dd had been better for a day or so.
I rang midwife who said that if my booking bllods say immune- they do- My baby would be fine. BUT her dd had had her MMR and still got it. My dd had single jab.
I just don't seem to be able to stop worrying. Im 37 weeks and its been a dreadful pregnancy with contact with SPD, chicken pox, a CMV scare, Ive had a nasty virus and Ive just had a couple of days in hospital as baby has unstable lie. I'm a bit of a wreck to say the least.
Can anyone offer any help or reassuance.

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tiggerlovestobounce · 25/03/2009 08:35

If you are immune then you are fine.
Even though your DD had had the MMR and got it, she obviously wasnt immune, or she wouldnt have caught rubella. If she had had her bloods tested then they would have shown she wasnt immune, IYSWIM?
Hope that you feel better soon.

Sunflower100 · 25/03/2009 08:40

Thanks tigger - sorry I don't mean 'contact with SPD' I mean ive had SPD.
Im so fed up of feeling so stressed....

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brettgirl2 · 25/03/2009 10:09

I think that the danger is much earlier on anyway.

brettgirl2 · 25/03/2009 10:11

And don't worry too much about your daughter. The danger is to women in early pg, not small children. I had rubella when I was three and apparently I cried because my spots didn't last long enough to show granny .

Sunflower100 · 25/03/2009 13:00

Thanks Im not so worried about dd - just her chance of passing it on to me. She has been immunised but single jabs (variety of reasons including allergies - please don't shoot me) but this little girl who had rubella had had an MMR jab. I guess thats what set my mind doubting. That and being a lunatic crazy pregnant woman!

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Musukebba · 25/03/2009 13:38

Do you know how your friend's DD was diagnosed as having rubella - perhaps just a GP clinical opinion, or was there a saliva/blood test..? There's a chance it wasn't actually rubella.

Anyway after 16/40 there's no perceivable risk of congenital anomaly due to rubella, so at 37/40 with positive booking blood I'd also say you have nothing to worry about...

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