Would you come visit you family with an ill child?

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I think it’s ok if my family comes over during Easter holidays despite us having a poorly toddler. The said toddler has been coughing and vomiting yesterday (today only coughing and temp). My sister is coming to visit with her 2 children. My DH thinks they should wait and that we need to tell them that DD is a little poorly. They are driving down from Scotland so it’s not that easy and I think life just happens.

@Carolv @saraclara @Sheepcup (and everyone else who think that life shouldn’t stop if you have a slightly sickly child) Thank you!! Exactly my take haha

well, anyway I took the advise here and called my sister. Turns out, one of her kids has impetigo and we decided to go forward with the visit anyway 👍let the bug exchange commence!

If everyone’s fine with it, that’s great, enjoy your visit! I think you did the right thing telling her though.

Ha ha! Good luck with the bug exchange!

I’d be fuming if I turned up at my sister’s house, someone had been unwell and we hadn’t be informed and now likely would catch it too.

Man they're so going to regret that if they end up driving back to Scotland with a vomiting child but oh well, it's an informed decision!

It's not that I think a vomiting bug is particularly harmful to my children. But it's unpleasant, and also extremely inconvenient. It's potentially a few days off school, x2 if both my kids get it. They catch enough stuff from school, I don't need to add other bugs on top. This weekend specifically is the start of the holidays for my eldest (youngest is at nursery), so if she were to catch something tomorrow and start vomiting Sunday, then that's probably at least the start of her week at her grandparents' cancelled, which she's really looking forward to. For us it just wouldn't be worth the hassle that comes with a sickness bug, let alone the actual unpleasantness of the bug itself.

And if it's norovirus, you're only immune for a few months afterwards anyway, so it's not even like you catch it once and then done.

So yes, I'd always avoid if I can. I wouldn't take obsessive measures, but I wouldn't visit a child who was vomiting the day before and is still unwell.