I've had chicken pox before and got shingles when I was 8 months pregnant. I was told if you have had chicken pox, the virus actually stays in your system and if you're immunity is low it can come out as shingles.

I was concerned about having shingles while pg, but everything was fine. My daughter was born healthy with no problems. She's 9 now and has never had the chicken pox and I sometimes wonder whether she has an immunity to it?? I don't know. I think the worst thing was I had shingles and my older daughter got chicken pox off me, but from touching the shingles, I was quite itchy and was scratching it and being a toddler she wanted to scratch mummy's back too (this was before I knew what it was). Unfortunately I couldn't take any meds for it so for about a week I just had to use ice and hot packs.