Is it safe to take

Amoxicillin while pregnant? My dr prescribed it for me for a cold, and I tried to call my OB to double check but the office is not open today....i'll be 30 weeks tomorrow

Yes. I took it while pregnant.
The doctor wouldn't have given it to you if it wasn't.

http://www.drugs.com/pregnancy/amoxicillin.html


Amoxicillin has been assigned to pregnancy category B by the FDA. Animal studies using 10 times the human dose have failed to reveal any evidence of teratogenicity. Although no controlled data in human pregnancy are available, literature reports of adverse fetal effects are lacking. Amoxicillin is only recommended during pregnancy when benefit outweighs risk.

Why would the dr give you an antibiotic for a cold?

Quoting Captain Obvious:" Why would the dr give you an antibiotic for a cold?"

This is what I was wondering too, but it is safe to take Amoxicillin and of course that is one of the ones I can't take.  

Quoting Waitingforour3rd  :" Amoxicillin while pregnant? My dr prescribed it for me for a cold, and I tried to call my OB to double check but the office is not open today....i'll be 30 weeks tomorrow"

yes i have taken it a few times throughout pregnancy

Quoting Sami&Baby Silas:" Yes. I took it while pregnant. The doctor wouldn't have given it to you if it wasn't."

doctor's do not know everything, especially if they are not experts on pregnancy.

This dr gave me something last pregnancy he wasn't supposed to so ever since that happened I always double check with my OB before taking medication he prescribed. I was wondering the same thing about antibiotic for a cold.....I haven't taken anything this pregnancy so I was trying to avoid it but the headache/sore throat/ and mucus have gotten to me

Quoting Waitingforour3rd  :" This dr gave me something last pregnancy he wasn't supposed to so ever since that happened I always double ... [snip!] ... haven't taken anything this pregnancy so I was trying to avoid it but the headache/sore throat/ and mucus have gotten to me"

That sounds like sinus issues not a cold. I would do a salt gargle and try to flush out your sinuses if possible!

Quoting Waitingforour3rd  :" This dr gave me something last pregnancy he wasn't supposed to so ever since that happened I always double ... [snip!] ... haven't taken anything this pregnancy so I was trying to avoid it but the headache/sore throat/ and mucus have gotten to me"

If you don't have a bacterial infection though, the antibiotics are not going to do anything about that. Just take tylenol.

Yes, it's safe. My midwife won't prescribe or recommend any other antibiotic. (I had to take it once for a badly infected tooth.)

Quoting Monique and Dominic's mom:" Yes, it's safe. My midwife won't prescribe or recommend any other antibiotic. (I had to take it once for a badly infected tooth.)"

so what does she do if you are deathly allergic to it? Let you suffer?

Quoting P3RvYmCp3rv:" so what does she do if you are deathly allergic to it? Let you suffer? "

i'm allergic to it. & some other girl i talked to, her dr told her since she's allergic to that, to not even try any other meds in the "cillin" family.

Yeah i'm going to salt gargle/rest see if it helps before taking the antibiotic I hate taking medicine in pregnancy if I don't have to

Quoting JiLLiAN.:" i'm allergic to it. & some other girl i talked to, her dr told her since she's allergic to that, to not even try any other meds in the "cillin" family."

yeap I'm allergic to the whole cillin family and the whole cephosporin family...which means I have to search high and low for antibiotics.