FAYETTEVILLE -- Karyn Burns doesn't have time to worry about the swine flu. The Fayettville mom, who is eight months pregnant, is too busy working full time and taking care of her very energetic two-year-old son Jack. "I just try and stay away from anyone who does have the virus and take what precautions I can," she says.

The fact that children under three and pregnant women are the prime targets of the swine flu is something Burns says she is well aware of. "It's definitely a conversation starter," she says. " I've had a lot of people come up and ask if I've had the shot yet."

Burns, like a lot of pregnant women, hasn't had the swine flu shot yet thanks to a nationwide shortage of the vaccine. "I know I'm one of the priorities on the list but in terms of the shortage there is really nothing we can do right now."

There also really isn't much pregnant women can do to protect themselves from the swine flu once they get to the hospital. To help limit patients' exposure to the virus, local hospitals like St. Joseph's are no longer allowing children under 18 to visit patients in the hospital. Burns would like to have her son Jack visit her in the hospital but she says she understands why he can't. "I trust the hospital's decision. if they say this is the right thing to do. My first priority is protecting my children so if this is the policy, this is the policy."

As for Jack, Burns says he has his own idea of why his mom is going to the hospital. "He thinks we're having a rooster - that's what he's been telling everyone. So I think the concept will be over his head that he can't come to the hospital and meet the baby."