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Not at all. The only time I get sick if DH catches something and then gives it to me b/c we spend a lot of time together (UGH).

However, there was a year's span in college where I was really hard on my body (working out like crazy, barely eating or sleeping, doing a LOT of partying and everything that goes along with that...) and I was sick all the time with every ailment under the sun - strep throat, UTIs, nails falling off, ugh. But, I looked awesome and was in the best shape of my life since I was working out so hard and watching my diet so obsessively. LOL. But it was probably not worth it.

Nope...my immune system has gotten pretty steely with four siblings, public school, a kindergarten teacher for a mom, and generally taking care of my health. I got some bad bugs as a kid but don't get any more than a yearly cold now. It will be interesting to see if LO changes that!

Nope. I will get the occassional runny nose or sore throat, but I have never had a sick day in my life (during school or working).

We always joke that the women in my family have an iron stomach. Nothing can bring us down!

In fact, when I was in the Peace Corps, we had to have a yearly checkup with our doctors. At my last one, I went in, gave my stool samples, said I felt fine, and returned to my town. Three days later, I got a phone call from the doctor asking if I was ok. I said of course, and asked her why. She said that I had the worse case of amoebic dysentery she had seen in her 15+ years as a Peace Corps doc! So they gave me the meds to kill everything in my gut, which, unfortunately, worked. Because all my awesome gut bacteria was gone, I had no immunity/defense, and got amoebas and giardia several more times (and unfortunately felt it and suffered the consequences!).

This is why I will only take an antibiotic if absolutely necessary.