Need your advice

armcgill

Need your advice...

A Little Backstory:
DS has had a cold over the past week, nothing horrible, just congestion and green poop. MIL has also had a cold but unlike DS, hers has been bad. Yesterday is the first day she has felt normal to the point where she did her daily workout twice since she wasn't able to all week.


So, last night DHs parents decided it would be nice to have a family dinner at a restaurant since all siblings were home for the weekend. We agreed but DH and I both planned that DS would stay in his car seat partially because we were hoping he would sleep so we could eat and secondly, we knew mil was getting over a cold and did not want DS to catch it.
We get to the restaurant and ask mil how she is feeling and she tells us how she is getting over her cold. I make the mistake of telling her that DS is also getting over a cold to which she jumps out of her chair saying that it doesn't matter then about her being sick and could she hold DS. I was shocked. Dh and I told her no. She then asks if she can hold DS tomorrow at our huge family Christmas seriously its held in a hall because no one has a house big enough for the 70 ppl.
The issue is, I don't want DS passed around at the Christmas partially bc he is not even 6 wks and secondly bc he is getting over his cold and I don't want anyone giving him a new one especially with Christmas coming. This includes mil. is this crazy mama bear, or am I completely valid? Wwyd?

Also on a side note friends of ours stopped by for a visit yesterday. They were both sick with bad colds to the point where the husband stayed home from work Friday...we didn't realize until they were in our house! So I am even more worried about DS getting another cold... :

Tia and cookies for you all!

AbuDhabiMommy

You aren't being overprotective. At the Christmas, just tell people that your LO isn't feeling well and is really only happy with you or your husband holding him. It isn't untrue and gives you an out.
Sorry so many people are ready to pass on their germs... Smh

LSUnoelle1220

I would be the same way. Maybe you could wear LO? Mine always falls fast asleep and that could give you yet another excuse. 

armcgill

I was hoping to wear DS but he hates the sling we have... :

danienross

Not overprotective at all! An adult or older child who thinks they have a cold could really have RSV and would have no idea. Little thing I learned when we were in the hospital. So I say stick to your guns.