Opinions please? :-)

Hi everyone,

I won't go into the background too much but I live far away from my job and had to commute a long way each day. I have had two m/c on the train and after the last one I kind of had a mini breakdown and resigned from my job.

I have had a couple of weeks off and I am ready to go back to work again, hopefully closer to home. I would love to change my career though. I have wanted to work in childcare for a long time. You can do this casually as well in different centres while you study so if I got pregnant I wouldn't be hurting anyone.

My question is, I have heard that childcare is a high risk occupation if you're pregnant? I can see why because all the lovely little munchkins are building their immune systems and get all kinds of things... but lots of people get pregnant who are teachers/childcare workers etc. Also with swine flu at the moment ... ?

But how serious is it? Should I just stick to finding a temp office job or something until I have my kids (if I can have them...) and then think about it later?

Has anyone done it and lived to tell the tale? (haha)

Thanks everyone :-D I apologise if any of this sounds ignorant etc, I don't mean it to.

Sunny some good and some bad. I hope you don't mind. My sister in law teachers in a child care centre she caught InfluenzeA in 2008 and m/c during her illness at 11weeks. 6months later she fell pregnant again and had a healthy baby boy. I don't know if the influnzaA deinately caused the m/c but the Dr said it did. I am a nurse and have caught some things at work but usually when you first start working you might catch a few things but it does get better when you immune system increases from the exposure. And I must say there are a large number of childcare workers, teachers and nurses having babies so I think the risk is pretty low. I would go for the childcare position if thats what you want to do.