exposure to chicken pox and no immunisation

[Olive]

KM you're contagious before spots and whilst they are blistered

heather i sure i inadvertantly touched the spots they looked like pimples

[~me~]

heather i sure i inadvertantly touched the spots they looked like pimples

Were they broken or pussy? If not, you should still be ok. I am a pretty touchy feely sort of person and when I see a spot or something on a baby I intinctly touch it to try and soothe it, I know how you feel Olive!
I think you will just have to wait and see on this one, keep an eye out for fever and how DD2 is feeling. I would imagine too, that if you were exposed on Monday, she would start to show some symptons by now if she does have it.

[LimeSlice]

CP has an incubation period of about 2 weeks - so you *won't* see spots until after 2 weeks roughly.

Chances are she will be fine, and most likely won't present symptoms until after christmas even if she was exposed.

[~MummaBear~]

hey im not sure what your chances of passing it on are but i know that It takes from 10 to 21 days after contact with an infected person for someone to develop chickenpox. so you might be right for christmas either way...
i hope every thing is ok though and your DD doesnt get them!

[Schmickers]

mummyof4 is right, it will take 10-24 days before you will develop symptoms. It generally starts with flu-like symptoms, at which point you are contagious.

That said, at best, if you develop really early symptoms - say, in 10 days - you will still make it to Christmas, and then at best it will be another 10 days before your DD would display symptoms if she caught them from you.

[Olive]

well were 16 days post exposure.. so far so good, except today DD has a bit of a runny nose so hoping thats not the start of it