Anonymous wrote:I'm a really paranoid person but I'm not especially anxious about this, in this region. If I were in the south, absolutely.

Oh, it's coming up here and not stopping until it hits Canada.

Honestly, we have no idea what is going to happen here. The Asian Tiger mosquitoes can carry it and are present here. They are present all the way up to southern new england actually. Who knows if it will take off here.

Zika won't get here in the next couple of years, and even then, it won't be widespread. But that doesn't mean you should put off TTC. That is NEVER a wise move.

I live in a Zika warned country and am starting ivf this month down here. I do not live in a region of the country that is at high risk. My OB explained that things are nuanced. Specifically, the mosquitos that carry Zika also carry Dengue and Malaria and Chikungunya. You can look at the incidences of those diseases in countries and regions and have a sense of the likelihood of a Zika outbreak that will affect you. We live in a region of 450,000 people which saw only 55 cases of dengue last year. I am doing my ivf with the care and support of my rational Doctor. The Zika connection to the birth defects is not yet proven. I'm not saying it's not awful, but it is very unlikely and probably an unnecessary panic, and we cannot just stop the world for it.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a really paranoid person but I'm not especially anxious about this, in this region. If I were in the south, absolutely.

I dunno, I'm in DC proper and in my neighborhood we have a shit ton of mosquitos, May through Sept, easily. There were even a few stragglers still in early Nov.

Also, DC is in the south.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a really paranoid person but I'm not especially anxious about this, in this region. If I were in the south, absolutely.

I dunno, I'm in DC proper and in my neighborhood we have a shit ton of mosquitos, May through Sept, easily. There were even a few stragglers still in early Nov.

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't it make more sense to push back TTC to the fall so that you're not pregnant during the worst of mosquito season?

I think you want to get through early pregnancy before the virus gets here. Apparently your baby is still at risk if you've had the virus, so if you were infected this summer your yet to be conceived fetus would be at risk. Now, I don't think any of us knows quantitatively what the risks are; I'm just explaining the mentality.

Am confused, cdc advising you wait 2 weeks after you get back from affected country before ttc. This is from the cdc website:
" If a woman who is not pregnant is bitten by a mosquito and infected with Zika virus, will her future pregnancies be at risk?
We do not know the risk to the infant if a woman is infected with Zika virus while she is pregnant. Zika virus usually remains in the blood of an infected person for only a few days to a week. The virus will not cause infections in an infant that is conceived after the virus is cleared from the blood. There is currently no evidence that Zika virus infection poses a risk of birth defects in future pregnancies. A women contemplating pregnancy, who has recently recovered from Zika virus infection, should consult her healthcare provider after recovering."

I know info keeps changing on this, do you have a source that states it stays in your system longer?

Am doing ivf, plan to be pregnant in march and can't afford to postpone. I think fla and la will be more of a concern though

I'm a really paranoid person but I'm not especially anxious about this, in this region. If I were in the south, absolutely.

I am terrified but I am also a paranoid person so I have a hard time keeping things in perspective. We've been TTC for 6 months now with no luck. I imagine we'll keep trying but I'd be lying if I said I was not worried about this.

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't it make more sense to push back TTC to the fall so that you're not pregnant during the worst of mosquito season?

+1 if you are trying to time this time it that the bulk of the pregnancy takes place during the cold winter months

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't it make more sense to push back TTC to the fall so that you're not pregnant during the worst of mosquito season?

I think you want to get through early pregnancy before the virus gets here. Apparently your baby is still at risk if you've had the virus, so if you were infected this summer your yet to be conceived fetus would be at risk. Now, I don't think any of us knows quantitatively what the risks are; I'm just explaining the mentality.

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't it make more sense to push back TTC to the fall so that you're not pregnant during the worst of mosquito season?

I think this is what we're going to do.

Wouldn't it make more sense to push back TTC to the fall so that you're not pregnant during the worst of mosquito season?

Honestly, I find this terrifying. We are planning to TTC #2 later this year and I'm thinking about starting earlier before it gets here.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/01/28/zika-virus-who-announces-formation-of-emergency-committee-level-of-alarm-extremely-high/

I feel like the writing on the wall here is that eventually there could be a recommendation for US women to avoid pregancy for an extended period of time, similar to what is happening in Brazil right now. Is anyone else thinking this, and considering moving up TTC to try to get ahead of the spread of the virus up to our area? DH and I are not ready for a second yet, but I'm afraid Zika could get in the way when we are. Or is it not going to be as big of a deal in our area?