Thrush during pregnancy

I’ve been struggling on and off with thrush and BV this whole pregnancy but I am nervous about taking something to treat it in as last time I did I had some bleeding. Has this happened to anyone else??. I’m thinking of having a go at using the canesten thrush pessary? Has it worked for anyone? And is it safe to use? Everything I’ve read seems to say so.

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I would speak to a chemist before taking it but I would treat it and not leave it untreated.

I spoke to my doctors first and they prescribed the pessary, I was around 12 weeks. Symptoms went within 48 hours and I haven’t had it since! I think with the pessary they just recommend you to insert without the applicator x

Yes my midwife said it’s fine to use the pessary just not the oral tablet. I had 2 lots of thrush back to back 🙄 and worried it might be coming back again. The first time I had some very light bleeding but not the 2nd, it does say that can happen though with the pessary and not really anything to worry about. It’s best to use your finger and not the applicator as the vagina/ cervix can be so delicate in pregnancy! I’ve also been drinking yacult daily to try and help too

did you use canesten one off thrush pessary? Or the ones prescribed by the doctors which is a 7 day course?

It was just the standard Canesten one you can get at the supermarket (with the pessary and cream). I didn’t know there was a 7 day one, so that’s good to know if it comes back again!

Thank you! It’s always worrying taking things when you are pregnant. Such a pain it keeps coming back!

The only way to get rid of thrush completely is changing diet. Look up anti Candida diets for pregnancy online. Treating with pessary's is just a temporary fix that why it keeps coming back. Do you eat a lot of white refined carbs and sugar? Particularly bread and sugar? Yeast infections feed on sugar and yeast :( inserting natural yogurt seems to work for me and also taking raw garlic daily ( natural anti fungal). Apple cider vinegar baths, coconut oil (topically and eating one tablespoon daily) - as it's another anti fungal. Whenever I eat sugar or bread with yeast I get another infection so I feel your pain 😭

Annoyingly it was antibiotics that set it off for me 😩 ones I didn’t even need in the end. I’ve never had thrush before being pregnant

I'm still dealing with this issue from antibiotics I was given 20 years ago! They really do mess up your gut bacteria so badly. 🥲

I had a swab at the hospital on Monday as Id had some bleeding (turned out to be a cervical ectropian) but it’s come back today and they’ve prescribed me Zidoval (Metronidazole Vaginal Gel) but I’ve googled it and I’m worried now.

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Am I in the wrong?

So my MIL has been weird with me from day 1. My partner and I fell pregnant within months of seeing each other so we understood her reaction to me being pregnant was never going to be positive.

She then started going through a divorce when I hit the 12 week mark and we moved out, she didn’t reach out for a couple of weeks but we assumed she was just busy with lawyer stuff so didn’t pester. However weeks then turned into months etc. my partner would text his mum and she’d ignore the texts.

I was 8.5 months pregnant when she decided she wanted to come back. She apologised to us both directly for being absent my entire pregnancy and explained she was depressed, struggling etc. we decided to forgive her and let it go.

Our son was born August 2023 and the first year of his life she was present and a great grandmother to him, don’t get me wrong she was still “off” with me like whenever I would speak about my son she wouldn’t respond to me, she would come over and not really engage much with me, make snidely comments about me going back to work at 5 months PP despite the fact I’m providing for her son to be a stay at home dad etc but I just thought I’d be civil for my son. We got engaged in October 2023, she didn’t congratulate us.

January 2025 she started being VERY OFF. She deleted me off all social media’s for no reason, blocked my number. My partner asked why and she said she didn’t like me as a person. So I decided from then on if she wanted to see our son my partner would take him to her.

The rest of 2025, she was very inconsistent. We would ask her to take our son as she usually would and she’d say “can’t I’m dying my hair today” and silly excuses. We then had 4 miscarriages that year and not once did she send condolences or offer to support. It got to August, our sons bday and she got him 2 of the same gifts we did - she came to our house and I said aw it’s okay these things happen no big deal. Her mood changed and when my parents arrived my son got really excited and she left. She then text my partner that night saying my parents were rude to her and turning our son against her? 😂 he’s 2!!!!!

My partner had enough and had a go at her, saying no wonder my son was excited to see my parents when he sees them every 2 weeks. Since then she went in a mood and stopped speaking to us and visiting or allowing my partner to visit.

We fell pregnant in August 2025 and this baby has stuck. We shared our pregnancy with family and she hasn’t contacted us. From August to Feb 2026 she was radio silent, hasn’t asked for our sons at all. Ignoring texts.

Today, she has contacted my partner to try apologise and worm her way back in, I told my partner I’m having none of it and she won’t be seeing our son or new baby as she yet again has disappeared for over 6 months for no reason which isn’t fair on us or our son as he’s getting older and more aware!

Am I being reasonable? The way I see it is if this was a parent acting this inconsistent and being deadbeat they wouldn’t be allowed to run back in.

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Marriage fizzled out

I never thought my marriage would fizzle out so soon. Could it be because we’re just recently married and it could be a small temporary bump in the road? I just feel like my husband changed and it’s getting worse. It feels like he doesn’t want me anymore. He’s leaving for 5 days and I thought we’d get to spend some time together at night but he rejected me. Thinking of going another week with feeling unwanted kills me now. Remembering the days he was crazy about me hurts. How could it have stopped so abruptly… Anyone with advice on what I can do? I already brought it up straight to him and he said he hasn’t noticed him being distant and I’m just left speechless because is he being for real or is just trying to shut the conversation down???

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Welp. I expressed negative feelings to my husband and he responded with “I don’t feel comfortable talking when you’re angry”. Now we’re sleeping separately and I’m along for the night with the baby.
Trying not cry too loud- baby’s asleep (thank goodness). But I feel so unheard, so alone, so frustrated. My baby doesn’t like riding in the car, so I can’t even get out for a drive.
I’m a recovering stoner (over a year) and don’t want to turn to alcohol, so I’m alone with my thoughts and anxieties.
Feeling raw/vulnerable. May delete this later

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Besides being a mom
What do you guys do for living ?

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