Deb,

About 1 week before i concieved, we went out to lunch with people who 2/3 kids had just had chicken pox, and 1 might have been incubating it. Then the day before we concieved, my son had a highish temp and was a bit off, so we went to the dr and got him the immunisation for chicken pox (as apparently if they have it early on in the virus lifecycle it is not so severe).

Anyway, that child turned out not to have chicken pox, but 1 weeks or so later when i got my BFP, i asked my dr to check my chicken pox immunity (i had had it very mild as a 5 year old, and just wanted to reassure myself)

Fast forward a few weeks to my 6 week visit at my obs, and i had chicken pox immunity, but had turned up a positive blood test for the parvo virus. Not at all what i was expecting. Basically adults are asymtomatic, and its likely if you have been around children to have already been exposed to it. If you do get it whilst pregnant, there is a very small chance that the baby gets it - and there is a raised chance of miscarriage, but moreso the baby is anaemic - and if its later on they will do an interutereo blood tranfusion.

They wanted me rechecked, as the test that showed positive basically shows recent infection, but they couldn't tell if it was when i got pregnant, or just before. Luckily my 2nd bt came back neg, so they think i had it just before - but i was so stressed about it, as i was told at my stage basically nothing could be done, although they did say the risk were so minimal that the baby would even get it, and then be affected by it.

I made a few posts (i think in the proffessional support section and probably in the general pregnancy section), and all the people who were exposed and babies got it all had very positive outcomes.

But i know the worry you might be going through, cos i was there 14 weeks ago, and nobody can tell you for sure it will be fine. The things that made me feel better were 1) parvo doesn't cause birth defects like chicken pox does, and 2) the chances were very slim.

If i were you i would just have a bt, so you know once and for all about your exposure. If you do come up positive (i think they repeat the bt depending on the results), they normally begin with ultrasounds more frequently just to keep an eye on things.

Hope that helped in some way, and that things turn out ok.