I'm 23 weeks pregnant with DS2 at the moment, and have an appointment for a swine flu jab on Thursday and to get a broken tooth pulled on Friday. Thinking of postponing the swine flu jab but I was so ill with colds and flu before Christmas, (6 weeks straight of illness that developed into a chest infection which my GP gave me Amoxicillin for) I am nervous that I will catch something else, and it would be just my luck to get swine flu! I tend to get more illnesses in the Autumn and Spring and DS1 just started pre school so I'm sure he'll be exposed to lots of new germs as well. I might just be nervous but I think swine flu could possibly become more of an issue in the Spring, that is why I decided to have the jab.
The tooth that I'm having pulled had a root canal a couple of years ago and it has now broken. I was meant to have it pulled before Christmas but I postponed it then. It seems like it should come out pretty easily as it's wobbling around quite a bit, but the pain I was having subsided after the course of antibiotics I took for the chest infection. So I was thinking maybe I could put that off. But now, from chewing only on the opposite side of my mouth, I feel a wisdom tooth cutting through and it's quite painful. I don't know if I could last through the rest of the pregnancy chewing on one side of my mouth!
I'm just falling apart all over the place it seems, so on the one hand I feel that maybe I should just go for both and not worry, it will probably be fine. But maybe it will be too much to have the swine flu jab and a tooth pulled at the same time and I'll end up with flu or an infection in my mouth or both?! Or should Ijust have one thing done? Or postpone both?! I'm curious to know what others might do in my situation? I just keep changing my mind from hour to hour!