My wife also has a latex allergy. 10 weeks ago, she gave birth to our first son. Mind you, her allergy to it is a bit more mild. She would tend to get itchy / red from contact with latex.

I old the attending OB/GYN, whom she has been seeing, and he said, "When did this suddenly develope?" I mean, we've told him before during our many visits.

Luckily, they took her seriously and they brought in a medical box of non-latex products, esp. a catheter. Otherwise, things would have wound up being, shall we say, very uncomfortable.

Still, it was almost like they doubted our word the first time we said it!