swine flu

ah i answered my own question:)

Why is avoiding the disease so important for pregnant women? Does pregnancy make them more susceptible to it?
Being pregnant doesn’t make it more likely that you’ll become infected. But if you are infected, pregnancy makes complications of the flu—any flu—more likely and often more serious. And women in their third trimester have reduced lung function because the baby takes up so much room. That may make pregnant women more susceptible both to influenza viral pneumonia and to secondary bacterial pneumonia.

If the mom does get infected, is that a threat to the fetus?
Not directly; that is, the mom won’t pass the disease to the fetus, and it won’t harm the fetus as, say, chicken pox can. But if a mom develops pneumonia or gets extremely sick she is more likely to have premature birth.

very true..from what i hear atm it's ring the doc and then they can kinda quarantine you on the way in.. at this rate they will have to drop the medicine off!!! I guess i will just have to watch out for symptoms and hope!

I was going to say the same as NZpiper- personally i would keep him at home for the week, just to be on the safe side.

I expect if that child is ill he is no longer at childcare and probably spread it around before he even had symptoms so I wouldn't bother keeping Ethan away as I don't think it would help. That child won't be back until he is better and no longer contagious.

Chch has a proper centre set up somewhere in city (I saw it on the news) and when you phone up the doc they are directing people to go there instead of your normal medical centre. They also said on the news that half the people who get it won't have any symptoms and most of the rest will only have mild symptoms.

It would suck if you guys go it, but realistically you would need to quarantine yourselves if you want to be safe as you could pick it up anywhere (like you said) and the likelihood of getting complications with it are very low.

I texted you about Spencer, he has a runny bum and temp and so do three other kiddies who were at lollipops on Sunday, so it looks like they all picked something up from there. Fingers crossed you guys don't get it too.

It really needs another name doesnt it?

amazing you can have it and have no symptoms?! crazy!

thanks:) time seems to be going very slowly but saw a heartbeat on monday so so far so good just hoping this one is a sticky one:)!

until it mutates

There was an ad in our local paper for the flu centre. Says to phone 0800 37 30 37 if you need an appointment but that most people should just stay home and don't need to see the doc, same as normal flu, only to see them if you have another medical condition that could cause complications (pregnancy might fall under that)
They also have a website www.fluinfo.org.nz

I think that info is just about the canterbury flu centre, not sure about other areas of nz.

DH just phoned and a colleague has been sent home as the guy her husband sits next to at work has confirmed swine flu.

We were talking and I said if it were me I would have stayed home and got tested before going back to work. DH didnt completely agree.

Fingers crossed she doesnt have it and it hasnt been passed on to DH.

I have baby massage class on monday and movement class on wednesday.. Do I go or keep Jake away from the other kiddies just in case?