16 weeks pregnant w/ a sinus infection…what can I do?

I’m 16 weeks pregnant with my first! 😀 But unfortunately I’ve managed to get a sinus infection. Even before I got pregnant I would get sinus infections 2-3 times a year and this sinus infection seems to be intensified with the pregnancy. My head is so full of pressure, my nose is both stuffy and runny(I can hardly breathe), and due to all the heavy mucas and drainage my throat hurts and its making me nausceous and I keep gagging. I use a saline sinus rinse and that helps but is there anything else? The OB nurse said I could take sudafed but I just don’t really wanna take any chances with medication(and sudafed is a Class B so that makes me a little leary)…Any home remedies/natural remedies anyone’s got that won’t harm my growing baby? Please help, I’m miserable.

What type of infection caused your membrane bag to rupture early?

I was having a pretty normal pregnancy. but my water broke early feb one night laying bed. broke with a gush and 25 hours later i delivered my first baby, a boy. I was only 17w 3d preg. He was alive until contractions, he couldn’t make it through delivery, too small. They tested the placenta/amnio sac and found an infection to be the cause but didn’t do a culture to find out what type of infection. a week later my midwife did a vag swab culture and i was positive for Group B Strep. Since it was such a high colonization we can only assume that was the infection. I never had any signs of infection and nothing else came back on the culture. Im worried i might lose another baby early on because of this. The hospital drs at my follow up said that GBS wasn’t the cause, it only happens later during delivery. But thats not what i have found out from all my online research. Has anyone else gone through this? Lost a baby to an infection, and not positive on what kind of infection especially since never had a fever or other signs of infection. Then went on to have a healthy full term baby? any treatments? I am on a few different natural remedies to help balance out the GBS since I know i cant completely get rid of it, since it is a natural bacteria in the body.

Does St Johns Wart help anxiety?

I have had problems with anxiety for the past 10 years. I was on medications for that entire time until last July when I found out I was pregnant. As soon as I found out I was pregnant I started to slowly go off of Cymbalta and Klonopin. I was actually fine through the pregnancy and never took a Klonopin or anything. I had my twins in February and since then my anxiety has been progressively getting worse and worse. I really don’t want to go back on anything because I always felt like a zombie even though I only took the Klonopin when needed and not every night. I hate being on medication and would like to try natural remedies. I know that St. Johns Wart can help depression, but can it also help anxiety? Are there any other natural things that can be takin? What about different kinds of foods that can help relax a person. I have read that blueberries, peaches and almonds can help. I have also tried to start limiting my caffeine intake since I love Pepsi. Has anyone tried any of these things at all? I have also noticed that my anxiety is much worse at night, I do really well during the day…but as soon as night hits my anxiety gets worse. Any info. or advice would be great! Thanks!!!

How did you find out you had PCOS?

I have heard that PCOS is very common.
I’m kind of getting scared I might have it, even though I don’t have those symptoms:
Hirsutism, thin hair, irregular periods…NONE.
My period started at the age of 11, but it’s normal for them to be irregular at the time( Or I never even payed attention to them). From 14 and on my periods have always been regular(Every 28 days).
I have gotten pregnant twice in less than a year. My first pregnancy took me 3 months to get pregnant but miscarried at 12 weeks(Baby died at 6w) it was a missed miscarriage in February 09. Then I started TTC again and got pregnant 4 months later with my baby boy. The whole pregnancy was risky..I had spotting and bleeding all the time having to rush to the ER. The doctor discovered I had placenta previa(Complete previa). At 19 weeks I had placental abruption and ended up giving birth at 23 weeks due to that. My baby boy died after birth, they couldnt save him 🙁 This happened in January this year. After those two events I went to another doctor and he told me that I must have had infection (Which I did test positive for infection UTI). I really keep thinking that it was my other doctor’s fault because I had a lot of back pain and he never prescribed me any medication..He wanted all natural remedies. The thing is I want to know why I havent conceived? I have been TTC since march with no luck. Could that mean PCOS or that has nothing to do with it? My new doctor did check my uterus and said it looked just fine and he did some testing and said that I’m very healthy, but the thought of PCOS runs in my mind.

Any feedback? Opinions?

Thanks 🙂