I listened with interest to the governments plans to introduce a vaccine for pneumoccocal meningitis. Unfortunately, it came a little too late for our family. Just before Christmas this year, my then 3 and half month old daughter contracted

rash as viral,did no tumbler test, capillary reflex test, nothing, even when he had a temperature of 40 and was listless and pale, which is also sypmtomatic of far more dangerous things; septacemia and meningitis, and as everyone knows, timing

and because the symptoms are so general, they said it could also be meningitis or mumps or just flu. either way, i still dont want harry at risk of any of them. so i am gonna run the show for a bit as lee is physically incapable of handling harry. harrys been

small to use the measurements - although the were very good!Alot of people probably won't understand this, but if I'm high risk for Downs, I will be having an amnio. if that shows positive, we will be, ehem, 'starting again' . My OH had meningitis 5 yrs

sectoin and twice i was given a steroid injection to boost babies lungs should they need it..When boys were born they were in incubators for about 7wks.. they both caught staphylococcus from the hospital which they thought was meningitis so they both had

developed Meningitis strep.B.My 2nd pregnancy I was a week late,but suffered terribly with pelvic disfunction,3rd was a good pregnancy,but during delivery the baby had shoulder distocia(dont know how to spell it!)and had to have him turned,which involved

was a fighter and we soon were able to bring her home.Sadly she became ill a few weeks later with Meningitis,and we were back at the hospital for a further 4weeks.We were extremely lucky with her,and she has no problems at all in any areas of her

 weight in just 7 months but then fell for baby no 2 9 months later!!  I only put on 3 stone instead of 6 this time lol but found it so much harder to shift it!!!  I ended up trying a sponsored slim for my friends son who had just been diagnosed with meningitis