Question for parents re: kids getting sick

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Sick all the time once start school?

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You're getting ahead of yourself but they'll get ear infections wenever wherever but the other sicknesses are generally passed when they are in close contact with other rug rats who are slobberin and snottin all over every shared toy or surface

First child went to day care .. he was sick due to ear infections. Tubes solved that and no real other issues. Bottled fed.

Second kid didn't go to sitter until 18 months old .. not a sick kid at all. Breast fed for 8 or so weeks and then bottle.

Third child went to in home sitter part time at 6 months — exclusively breastfed and wasn’t a sick kid at all.

They did get viruses when those went around but not much more than that.

It’s supposed to be a trade off. You can put them into daycare and they will be sick every week with a constant runny nose for about a year. The tradeoff is that it’s supposed to build their immune system up and that won’t happen once they start real school.

We finally had to pull our son out of daycare because he was literally sick every single week he was there. And as good parents, we held him out until he was free and clear from his sickness. Other parents clearly weren’t doing that because he wasn’t getting sick from healthy kids around him. And his sicknesses were getting worse (regular sickness, then HFM, then RSV). So we pulled him and his personality blossomed because he finally wasn’t feeling like shite all the time.

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Most kids have to go through it to build immunity. And it will likely spread through your family.

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Not much immunity built

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We are hopefully gonna get a positive pregnancy test next week.

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Talk about putting the cart before the horse.

Prepare yourself to get sick a lot when they start kindergarten. Kids are disgusting germ factories who bring home everything from school. They won’t get sick bc their immune system is hardy from spending days surrounded by snot covered crayons but they will carry all the viruses home to you and your wife who aren’t as prepared. You will be solid by 2nd grade though. Good luck with the hand, foot and mouth disease.

Mine were sick while in daycare and we usually got it too. Seems to stop in early elementary or so and they are very rarely sick now. They get exposed to everything. Tubes helped with the frequent ear infections.

Good luck on the sex

So your wife doesn’t even know if she’s pregnant or not and you’re worried about a star in the sky instead of the well being of your possibly soon to be pregnant wife?