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My coworker told me a tip that sounds obvious, but I wasn’t doing it (bc once I started thinking about it very carefully, I realized it’s easier said than done).
Don’t, under any circumstances, touch your face when your kid is sick. Don’t wipe your hair out of your face, don’t scratch your eye, don’t wipe your mouth with your hand, scratch an itch on your cheek. Keep your grubby, germ-filled paws off your face. And if you need to touch your face, go wash them before and after.
Nurseries/daycares/kindergartens are literal Petri dishes of germs, bugs, bacteria and viruses! We’ve been dealing it for about 2 years now. Just this month we had hand foot and mouth disease followed up by conjunctivitis. All fun and games. We tell ourselves that it is good for their immune system…
3 years after you're done having kids
This is roughly right, unless you have another one! Then it becomes what seems like a never-ending cycle of one kid bringing home the bug and getting everyone in the house (yes, adults too) sick. Rinse/repeat.
It’s a process to go through - not a pretty sight and can be really testing of your patience and energy levels. It doesn’t last for ever and is helping your little ones to build natural resilience to infections, bacteria and all that. Maintain that positive mental attitude, don’t be afraid to ask/take breaks from work where you need it.
Get obsessive about washing your hands. You’ll still get sick from them but it will be 1 out of 3 as opposed to every time. Also don’t be the favorite parent they’ll still love you but you won’t catch the cold of the week.
No fixing this dude.
My son caught RSV, Flu A, Flu B, and also knocked us out with his special cocktail of germs. Expect your kid to get sick every 6 weeks once he/she starts daycare. I am not sure if this is the case on warmer climates too. My wife had to take a lot of sick days and the little one attended daycare only 3 weeks out of 3 months. I hope the worst the is over, but he is definitely a lot stronger now.
To answer your question -- it is a cycle and they need to get infected with these germs. The sooner the better. It will be worse if you keep the little one in the house. Some precautions you can take for yourself:
- Make sure to get your flu shots/and your little one too
- Wash your hands a lot, don't kiss your baby too much if you suspect any cold related symptoms
- Brave it out - long sleepless nights, a lot of snot sucking with Frida, and constant sleep regression. It gets better, trust me!
May the odds be ever in your favor!
4 kids... From the first starting kindergarten in 2011 to the last starting kindergarten in fall 2019. Then the quarantine of March 2020 helped push a big reset button. So about 9.5 years of random colds and stomach bugs. Still married and much closer than in 2011. Physical health has returned... But probably the mental health is gone and we don't even know it.
Kids are disgusting. They get each other sick all the time and build up that immune system. I walked in a few weeks ago to pick my daughter up from after school care (pre-k 4) and saw her and another girl giving each other kisses goodbye. My daughter is 4 years old and this past fall she’s gotten sick 2 or 3 times already.
The best advice I can give is to stock your house with plenty of children’s Motrin and children’s Tylenol. Also, a nose Frieda is really, really helpful to pull mucus from your little ones’ congested nose at night so they (and you) can sleep.
This is the way.
Rising Star
Sorry mate, doesn’t get better for a while. My first got sick once every 4-6 weeks at daycare. Now we’re in a twos program… and it’s every 2-3 weeks because he’s the only one who was in a full time program before this year and every other snotty nosed kid is a walking incubator 🤦♂️
Oh yes. You do NOT want to see the other kids at your kid’s daycare.
Omg.
Do it now or do it when they start kindergarten. This is the price we pay for being social mammals.
Any socialization with other kids will do it.
Feels like once a week every few months one of my kids ISNT sick.
So true. I think the best way that we could prevent or minimize it is to encourage our kids to wash hands thoroughly often. Follow health protocols and bring alcohol everywhere they go.
Well my 14 yo son came home with conjunctivitis the other day, so I'd say never.
I have a 12 year old son who caught the same. I guess this cycle just never ends. It just evolves.
I'm on virus 14 of the season. Good luck.
I didn’t read any of the above, so sorry if this is duplicative.
It’s 100% true that your kid and the rest of your family will pick up all kinds of diseases. The good news? It only lasts for a few months then everyone gets immune and you go back to the normal cadence.
Honestly... Just buckle up and get ready for the ride. Day care plague is a phase to just begrudgingly accept as a part of life. Get sinus medication for when you are feeling ill, whatever else comforts you.
I say this very kindly, and as a lesson I had to learn, but sometimes things like this will be out of our control. We can only control our reaction, not if we actually get ill or not. Hang in there.
You can never 100% prevent something like that. But one thing I do is to put a bottle of hand sanitizer in every room, and one in my car. When I pick them up from daycare they get wiped down before I even buckle them in their seats. That has helped a lot.
It stops when your youngest kid is 5. Older siblings keeps bringing infections
6 months for us. All you can do is be aware and be proactive - sleep and vitamins etc