to ask at what age your pfb got their first cold?

[entropygirl]

We are learning about snot today .

I'd just like to know if we are lucky/unlucky/average.....

kthxby

3 weeks

4 weeks and I got it too. It was the final nail in the coffin of my attempt at breastfeeding. I was so unhappy at that point, feeling like crap, feeling like a useless mother, ds was miserable and dh had just gone back to work so I was also feeling pretty isolated.

I seem to remember I bought a sofa in that week too (obviously trying to cheer myself up with retail therapy ).

Dh passed on a cold to my DS when he was 3 weeks old. Poor little guy...i was convinced it was all over for the family at that point but he was healthy and robust---still is. So much for the myth that bf babies get fewer viruses, however.

18 months for DD1 and 23 months for DD2, both coinciding exactly with them weaning off bfing. But DD1 had some snot the day after she was born, not sure if that was a real cold.

DD caught one when she was about five weeks old.
I was furious with my sister for allowing one of her many children to pass on germs to my precious baby.
Worse, much worse than that was to follow though.

DD was 3 months, it was over christmas and I was very panicky about how poorly she seemed to be (couldnt keep anything down due to being full of snot and plegm).

DS caught one off his older sister when was a few weeks old andI was much less panicky even though even though he was the same as DD- sicky and not feeding well.

18 months.

Stopped BF and one week later he got his first cold.

Seriously - nothing until then!

Hey megapixels snap!

I thought at the time that it might just have been a coincidence.... Evidently not!

11 months - previously never been poorly at all DS ended up with a bacterial throat infection and croup. It was horrendous. It may have been karma for my smug thoughts about my DS being super healthy....!

13 months. He started at nursery and a few days later we had rivers of snot. He'd had croup at 10 months, though, so the cold wasn't his first illness.

DD has just had hers, well first illness to cause a slight temp rise and needed Calpol and a doc visit for rattly-ness, she is 2.8yrs.......... I'm not quite sure how she managed that - in the meantime I've had no less than 6 colds and 4 bouts of tonsilitis.................

6 months for my son, it was when he started nursery. No idea with number 2 or 3.

ds1 had gastro at 15 weeks, bronchiolitis at 5 months and then ill every few weeks until he was 2. i can remember when he was about a week and a bit snuffly leaning over his Moses basket crying, he's got a cold. ds2 is 15 weeks and nothing yet. I'm not good when my Kid's are ill, can't be calm and logical. hope little one is better soon.

about a week old and I had her at the doctor in a panic lol. I thought she was dying. She now stands nearly 6 feet tall and is 21 years old!!! she made it through....

6months I remember because we were introducing solids and a lot of other things besides the breast were going in the mouth and I figured that's what did it :)

Snot poured down DD1's face constantly for the first 3 yrs of her life until her adenoids were removed. It was one long slime fest.

About 10 months for DS1, but about 10 days for both DS2 and DS3 - aaaahh .

9 months

Can't remember the first mild cold but she had a really bad cold at 5 months.

4 months - they nurse said he was a bit wheezy and sent him to the dr. and he was given a/bs. At 5 months he had his second and I was worried and took him to the doctor she said he was sucking in his ribs as he breathed and gently told me he needed to go to a&e and to pack a bag in case we stayed. He had bronchiolitis and we were in hospital for six nights. At 6 months he went down hill again and this time he was admitted with pneumonia. After that he didn't pick up for a long time. At 8 months he was referred to the Royal Brompton after they discounted cf but didn't think he was as well as he should be. We mentioned it was funny that every serious episode occurred a few days after the dtp jab - the consultant said hmm but if a child such as this got whooping cough he would almost certainly die.

We never got to the bottom of it and spent the next 12 months using inhalded steroids, and in bad patches a portable nebuliser and lots of ventolin with the occasional dose of oral steroids. He also had 11 ear infections and countless a/bs with grommets at 16 months.

He improved incredibly when I gave up work at that point although was mildly asthmatic until he was about 7.

Happily at 17 he is 6'1", plays prop forward, has 11 A*s, eats and sleeps for England and we believe may be revising for an A/S in snogging .

4 or 5 weeks I think.

16 weeks. Just gotten over it (17 wks) now.

DS has his first to coincide with his first New Year's Eve, aged 5 months. The snot bubbles were phenomenal

About 12 months with the first then progressively earlier with each child. Can't remember any under 6 months with the other children, but as soon as exclusive breastfeeding stopped with the younger ones, the colds started. It's taken another 15 years to be at the point where I can say no-one has had a single cold in the family this winter yippee as I am not good with ill children.