"Emily" wrote in message
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Hi folks,

Had my check up today. Nothing too exciting to report,
except that my OB was a bit worried about this cough I've
had for a week. She wrote a perscription for a z-pack
(antibiotics) that I can fill if I don't get better in a couple
of days, and told me to take Robitussin and lots of fluids
to see if that will help.

I have both pregnancies developed a postnasal drip that resulted in coughing
in the third trimester. It resolved upon the hormone shift at birth. I
have read that this is a hormonal thing. I would not automatically take
antibiotics for it. I wasn't "ill". I would have been too concerned about
the side effects of the antibiotics had a doctor prescribed them for me for
the cough.

It was nasty at times. I had to watch incontinence during the coughs and
occasionally would cough myself into a vomit.

Dagny
Mom to Meg, 10/03
RD, 1/05