Feeling stressed out...I'm overdue and DS seems to be coming down with a bug.

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He's been teary and lethargic today, and now has a temperature

Apparently there are several bugs going around the DCs nursery, including one suspected case of swine flu last week, a vomitting bug (DD was playing all morning with a girl who puked at lunchtime), and some weird respiratory/croup thing which has hospitalised the sibling of another kid at the nursery.

Argh!! I can't bear it!! Am I going to be horribly ill while in labour? Is the baby going to catch a nasty bug as soon as he's out??

Can anyone give me a slap and talk sense into me? People with lurgified school age kids give birth all the time, don't they?

Oh, and do you think I should keep the kids out of nursery for a bit (even if they are well)?

Yes. You'll be fine. Baby will be fine. Don't forger baby has your immunity when first born so you have probably already passed on the goods to them. I have never yet met a woman too ill to labour (apart from women who are actually seriously ill iyswim!)

Oh thank you reikizen! I think I need to take some deeeep breaths and try to relax a bit. I've been feeling so tense every time I hear another story about one of their friends feeling ill!

don't know if that helps but I caught a bug two days before I had DS. Was really sick on the Sunday (vomitting/diareah sorry if TMI) and thought "oh I am in labour (that is what I had for DD". Midwife came and said no you have a bug. I was so sick and tired (hardly any sleep because so poorly), I only started to pick up on the Tuesday morning and hoped it would be a while until the baby came as I needed to recover. Only to feel sick again the next day and think "oh no the bug is back" except this one the bug was my DS. And although I had been absolutely shattered the day before, I was absolutely fine. Our body have a way to snap back into shape remarkably quickly.

Good luck

thanks needahand It's really reassuring to hear your story.