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If you had a newborn/small infant in the winter months (aka- cold/flu season), did they get sick often?? Did you do anything to limit their exposure to others? Or did you go about your daily routine normally?
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Re: Moms of Fall/Winter babies....
Went about my daily routine. I have 2 fall/winter babies, and this one will be born in fall as well.
I can tell you that DS contracted RSV when he was 16 days old. There was NOTHING I could have done to prevent it since I had 2 other kids in the house and one was attending preschool. DS was hospitalized for 5 days. He didn't get sick after that until he was 2.5 with a stomach bug for ONE day.
DD#1 didn't really get sick until she started preschool, at around age 3, and she was only sick with a stomach bug as well........
DD was born late Jan, and was breastfed for the first 4-6 months, and wasn't sick much her whole first year. the first few weeks of her life, i was a "first time mom" and wouldn't let anyone hold her who didn't get both the flu shot and pertussis shot. And i made sure to have lots of purell on hand. Our next baby is due in December, and i plan on doing the same things to help as i can to keep her healthy too. i know it will be extremely challenging as we will also have a toddler bringing in germs that we didn't have the first time. but we'll just wash hands lots and do what we can to keep everyone healthy this winter.
GL!
This will be my second October baby.
DD didn't get sick at all until I started putting her in the church nursery at around 9mos. I did get a flu shot while pregnant and asked people to wash their hands or use sanitizer for the first couple of months. Other than that I don't remember doing anything special.
Currently going through our second deployment. Can't wait for Zoe to meet her daddy!
I have a mid December baby before Christmas. We were super careful with her. She did not leave the house except for drs appt till 6 weeks. She went no where, not even grandparents that live 15 mins away. Lots and lots of people came to visit but they washed their hands. Grandparents all got flu shots at our request. We also did not allow our nieces and nephews to hold her till her first set of shots. As I said we were super conservative, but DH and I both wanted it that way and our family supported us even though they did not all agree. She had her first cold at 1 year old. I know it would be different if we have another obviously having an older sibling. We would not limit DDs ability to bond with her new sibling if we have another. I still think though if we had another winter baby, we would still try to limit her leaving the house for awhile. My DH thought is able to take lots of time off so, I would not be alone. One of us would be able to stay home with the LO while the other runs errands etc.
I realize this is not everyone's way just my experience.
My DD is only 7 months old but she hasn't been sick at all, not once. Other than a VERY minor ear infection from teething. My immediate family, one REALLY close friend and DH's mom, step dad and brother were the only ones that saw her for the first 6 weeks. DH and I neither one went in public at all for the first month. My family only saw her a few times in those first few weeks. DH and I avoided public because we had a HUGE RSV outbreak here, 3 of our friends kids got it right after DD was born. I have to say it is an incredible advantage to live away from people so we don't leave very often and nobody drives out of their way to our house. I never had to ask anyone to wash their hands or use Germ-X...they just did it.
I chose to have a winter baby because I cannot picture myself being 9 months pregnant in any type of heat and I pretty much stay sick most of the summer.
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DS was born December 27th. He has yet to be sick period (no fever, runny nose, nothing)---we're very fortunate!
We stressed hand sanitizer to guests (MIL works in retail and I feared most something coming from her). When we'd go out to stores/eat we'd keep DS in his carrier unless forced to hold him by him crying (which was rare). When he was in his carrier we made sure to keep the umbrella part up to shelter him from others as best as possible (it also seemed to cut down on nosy people).
Nope. DS was born at the end of January and has been sick exactly once in his life, and it was after flying out of state for the first time. For about the first month or so we asked people to wash their hands before holding him and asked anyone who was sick not to visit. That's about it.
Oh, and both DH and I and the grandparents made sure our pertussis/flu vaccines were up to date.
DD #2 - 03.13
My first (born november) didn't get sick until she was almost a year old. But her brothers (born December) have been sick more times than I can count! I think it has to do with having their older sister in preschool and bringing every bug home to them.
Both of mine are December babies - we just went about our normal life and routine in terms of going out and such and never had any issues. I'm sort of the anti- hand sanitizer person (I'm incredibly scent sensitive and am more worried about an asthma attack than the killer bug the santizer didn't kill off because so many people don't realize hand sanitizer isn't a substitute for proper hand washing)...
When DD was small she would get ear infections for who knows what reason and usually in the summer months. When it comes to bugs, DS has been pretty healthy all along with only a few temperature jumps but nothing worthy of a trip to the Ped.
DD is a November baby and was born in northern England where it is cold in September! We went about our normal schedule as much as possible but were a bit limited the first few weeks due to CS recovery. We took her to London and on a plane to the US at 6 weeks. She got a bit of a cold at 3 months (right after we returned from the US) which I have always attributed to the flight but it wasn't a big deal. We freaked out since we were first time parents but if it were to happen to this LO I wouldn't blink an eye. She wasn't sick again until after her first birthday.
m/c at 13 weeks - March 23, 2011
I had two winter babies. I went about life as normal. I didn't keep my kids home; I would have went stir crazy. DD (2 1/2) has yet to get sick and DS has only been sick once. Both kids also go to gym child care.
DS is a January baby, so I had a flu shot when I was pregnant. TBH I didn't take him out much as a newborn, but for things that had to get done like groceries, appointments or whatever, I just wore him in a wrap. Kept him warm, no one touched him and he couldn't touch anything, it was great.
I was also a stickler for hand washing and sanitizing everything even after the NB stage. He spent a week in the NICU with pneumonia when he was born, so most people indulged my paranoia. But hey, he didn't get sick again until 7 months in the summer, so something worked.
DD (5 years old) from IUI in 2012
TTC 3rd and final!: IUI #1 in progress!
50/50 here. My first was a late December baby. He rarely gets sick. He's had to take medicine once in his life and has yet to ever run a fever.
My DD was an early January baby. She gets colds here and there and had the croup last winter (which surprisingly my son never caught from her).
We raise them the same way--around lots of germs, never kept them contained in the house.
DS was born in early March. He didn't get sick for the first 18 months of his life.
DD was a November baby. She was sick all.the.time. Her brother started getting sick when she was born.
It got to the point last winter where I did start limiting their exposure to other kids, at least where I knew that someone had a cold/runny nose. Both of my kids had chronic ear or sinus infections, and underwent multiple surgeries because of it.