Settle a dispute : fresh air or stay inside baby with a cold

[doadeer]

10 month old has a nasty cold. Bit sad in himself but otherwise OK. Nasty cough and runny nose.

Person A: you should keep baby inside - stay warm.

Person B: it's good to get fresh air if baby is wrapped up warm

Which are you?

I've been reading up on keeping chickens and other livestock at the moment and the amount of emphasis on good ventilation when they're indoors is unreal. It's accepted as fact that stale, humid air leads to much higher rates of pneumonia and other infections in animals.

We're animals too.

Fresh air most definitely but not too far from home in case she gets grumpy and wants to return home 😊

For my DD we had to stay indoors as she was on oxygen for the first year of her life and my god did that make us all cranky! So I kept her by an open window and bundled her and her DB up in their Moses baskets, opened the second living room window for a good flow of air and sat there freezing my proverbials off at various intervals in the day 😂

Fresh air seems to do wonder for coughs.

Fresh air, wrapped up warm.

I would stay indoors tbh

Bundled up, outside.

Baby might sleep in the pram on a long walk. It'll do you good too.

Mine is 10 months with a cold and he doesn’t have any choice except to have fresh air as we have to do the school run twice a day.
I think we’d both go insane if we were cooped up at home all day anyway.