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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I completely understand where you are coming from. We had planned to ttc this summer, because of some circumstances, the door didn't really open til July. Now, with the news breaking of domestic transmission, my husband is extremely concerned. Up until this point I've spoken with my doctor and researched as much as I can. Today though, with all of the news, I reached out to a former colleague who is a public health expert for the fed. He has a toddler daughter, so I knew he would understand my concern. I basically asked him what he would recommend re ttc in in the current climate, if it was his family expansion that was under consideration. THe below is what he shared:

"If I were making the decision, I might wait a bit until the heat died down to really try to buy down the risk, but I wouldn't treat it as a main factor in deciding when to try to get pregnant.  While the consequences of an infection during pregnancy could be significant, the risk of it actually happening in the DC area looks pretty low.  We do have the mosquitos that transmit the disease, but we're right at the end of the range for aedes agyepti, the main transmitter, and I haven't seen any strong evidence that we have huge populations here.  Another factor that makes me think it's unlikely we'll see widespread transmission around here is that we haven't seen widespread transmission of Dengue, Chikungunya, or Yellow Fever around here either, which are other viruses spread by the same bugs.

The virus is expected to become endemic in Latin America and the Caribbean, similar to Dengue.  This means that we can expect periodic small outbreaks in the U.S. each year, similar to what we expect to see this year, so your risk level likely won't change over the long-term.

Bottom line, waiting a few months for piece of mind won't hurt anything, but beyond that it won't get you anything. "

I hope that's helpful in shaping thoughts! [/quote]

OP here - thank you for this! Very helpful. Think I'm feeling better about starting now. Just going to keep wearing all this bug spray and all these clothes.[/quote]

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