..to avoid chicken pox??

[FestiveStinkyPants]

My niece has chicken pox and I'm avoiding her so my Ds doesn't catch it, is that wrong??

Ds is 3 so a good time to catch it and get it out of the way but I don't want him to be ill. DSis has been taking dn out, school last week, shopping and has suggested meeting up this week and obviously over the Xmas weekend but I don't want to knowingly make my child ill. DSis also has a younger Ds who hasn't come out in spots yet but I feel it's only a matter of time. I want to give them a wide berth for a month but DF says I can't, we have to see each other over Xmas (I haven't seen them since September anyway)

Am I unreasonable to put my childs health first??

I wish I'd had it when I was younger, I got it 2 weeks before starting secondary school, missed the first week and had to start covered in scabs! Not to mention it was horrible because I was older and because I was more aware of what was going on/my looks. I hope my dd gets it before she's a teenager.

Don't get me wrong I would prefer Ds to get it while younger but he starts at a new nursery in January with other new starters and I don't want him to miss the settling in period. If he catches it whilst there and settled that's fine, I just don't want to expose him to cp knowingly.

He has older siblings and they all caught it young, just before he came along.

A vaccine can help you in that case. The chickenpox vaccine is a shot that can protect nearly anyone who receives the vaccine from catching chickenpox. It's also called the varicella vaccine, because chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus.

I e been looking at having that, but at £65 a dose and for 2 doses at this time of year i can't afford. But it's on my todo list for next pay day

Ds has chicken pox.

My best efforts of avoiding it was useless, exactly 2 weeks after my parents visited my niece and nephew. Oh well, always happens when you've got loads planned.

I've just got over a month of it in our house as DS got it then 2 and a half weeks later DD got it. All recovered just in time for Christmas but it did make Xmas prep tough as we couldn't really leave the house.
Hope your DS doesn't have it too badly, Virasoothe is amazing and really helps with the itch. I found it much better and less messy than the calomine.