How often has your LO been sick?

Question

My LO feel ill at 4 months which resulted in staying in the hospital for 5 days 💔 it was broncalnamonea 
My LO (now 11 months) just picked up a high fever and we've just come back from hes peak, he has a bacterial throat infection and is on antibiotics 😪
I feel like I'm not protecting him enough!!! 
How often has your LO been sick (or for those who are not FTM) what was your experience with your babies...
He goes to daycare 3 days a week while I'm at work, i know this will expose him to alot, do I need to pull him out and leave my job yo stay home with him?? 
Thoughts?
Guidance??
Feeling like I'm failing him 😕

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Mine hasn't been sick at all but that's because he stays home with me and we haven't been doing outings with the pandemic. In many ways it's a good thing for baby to be building up the immune system and my son is going to be behind with that. I worry about that a bit on my end. I don't think it's a problem for babies this age to get colds and such!

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Our girl was born with a lung infection so she was in the hospital on heavy duty antibiotics for the first week of her life. She was fine after that, until she went to daycare at 3 months old. Within a week, she got RSV. 🤦🏻‍♀️ She got a couple more colds after that before the pandemic hit and daycare closed. The day it closed, she got a cough. That cough lasted 8 weeks. I was panicked that she had COVID. Thank god she didn’t, but it was a rough 8 weeks. She has been back to daycare since June 15th and has had two colds since going back. It will build their immune systems in the long run. My doctor said that babies in daycare usually get around 7 colds/illnesses per year, but it starts to level off as they get older. Hang in there mama!

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My son has only gone to daycare for 5 weeks of his life since I was able to work from home due to COVID. During that 5 weeks he got a stomach bug and a head cold 🤦🏼‍♀️ I fully expect when we send him back to daycare that he’ll start getting sick every once in a while. Which is never fun

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My daughter goes to daycare 5 days a week since she was 5 months. I’m in Australia so we are just coming out from winter, the worst of it. She got sick after 3 days in daycare. She was well for about 2 weeks then got sick again. After that she gets sick about every 2 months since. It’s totally normal and expected once they start daycare, normally calms down after the first year. I would say your experience while stressful is on the better side. Hang in there, you will get through this soon :)

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Hospitalized at 3wks old for a fever. Started getting ear infections around 4 months old and we will go about 1 week without antibiotics and then he gets another one. Had roseola a month ago. Just had surgery for tubes this morning. Hopefully that will help! It’s normal for them to get sick every now and then. A lot of these germs are new to them. Daycare is a good exposure to germs and friends!

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We’ve fortunately had nothing.. no fevers or colds or anything. He’s not in daycare and we obviously haven’t been going anywhere with Covid. Hoping it doesn’t hurt him in the long run.

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My 11 month old just started kindergrten and got her first illness after 5 days.. Fever, cough, runny nose, rash. She's just getting better now after 6 days. I've heard from a few friends with kids that it's inevitable once they start kindergarten/daycare. One said her daughter had bronchitis 4 times in one year after she started 😳 Sounds like your little one is doing pretty good compared to that!

How often has your LO been sick?

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