AIBU to cancel dd's swimming this year because I'm having a major wobbly about her catching swine flu?

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What do you think? Do I need to get a grip?

Starting to get really freaked out about this now that one of dd's friends is very very ill with SF and my father suggested cancelling as many of her activities as possible. I am a bit worried that swimming in a pool that is also open to the general public is not a good idea right now but I am just unsure about it. Presuming no one who has the virus will feel like swimming but still...

I have to make a decision about it tomorrow or pay until June.

Yes, get a grip.

get a grip please

YABU. I presume you are also keeping her off school and indoors until it's all over

Get a grip.

Our local pool has so much chlorine in it that it could probably wipe out all known germs.

get a grip

she could catch it anywhere

Why is swimming more of a risk than any other activity? Surely you are just as likely to catch SF in the supermarket (some one sneezes as they walk past you)?

But for how long would you not go out in public for ? Do you continue to go to the supermarket, play areas etc. Just as likely to pick it up form a visitor to your home.

Sorry but isn't life too short .

Yep.

Come on, come on, toughen up! x

YABU. Don't deprive her of this experience when she's just as likely, if not more likely, to pick it up elsewhere. As has been mentioned above, at least the pool isn't someplace where kids are sharing/drooling on the same toys (at least, not without them being run through chlorinated water after.)

Could you put her inside a very large hamster ball and let her float on the water?

yabu
but I think you know that

I must admit to having had the same thoughts about ds swimming lessons

Dh and some friends told me to get a grip as well, but we have had to cancil the lessons until after xmas anyway due to car problems but no one belives me, I am now seen as the mad overprotective mother.

YABVU.

And yes you need to get a grip. It's swine flu not Ebola.

good god.

Yes get a grip.

Two choices:

Either cancel everything - school, shopping, visits to friends, soft play, swimming, going to parties, visiting in-laws, going to the park, going to the library...

OR

Get a grip.

Swimming is more likely to keep her healthy anyway...

Invest in one of these.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjWOJnXOLX8

I want one of those!!!

All my boys loved that hamster ball thing when we were in sandy balls this summer, ds3 just sat there arms outstretched staring at the light coming in though LOL

'Course you're being unreasonable, you can't protect them- we walked around a corner, some girl snneezed at us as she passed and wham! 4 kids and two adults with SF.

Unless of course you turn into a bear and pack fdown for winter.

Well she MIGHT get swine flu .... But EVEN if she did, the vast majority of those that get it will get over it and carry on.

Sooooooooo,

unless your dd has a very compromised immune system, or a severe underlying health problem .......

KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON !!

Oooh! how lovely Peachy; hibernation = sleeeeep!

Hmm -I'd ignore the people who say you have to cancel everything or cancel nothing - that's a bit (very) illogical. We don't take that approach with anything else - we don't just not drive because it's dangerous, or drive madly with no safety precautions - we do something in between. To reduce the risk we use car seats, seatbelts etc. even though we know it doesn't get rid of all the risk.

It can make perfect sense to do something that only reduces a risk but doesn't totally eliminate it.

Whether or not YABU - totally depends on how much she loves the lessons, I'd say - it's a cost benefit thing.

If I had a child who, say, had asthma and was not that bothered about swimming lessons, I might cancel them. Child with no health problems who loves the lessons - I'd keep going I think. Anything in between - not sure.

I think if I was in your position I'd pay rather than lose the place but accept that SF might have ended up costing you money if further down the line (say if there's a third wave or an increase in severe cases) you decide to cancel. If you pay you've always got the option of not going a few times but if you pull out you can't do it the other way round.

See, i think swimming lessons matter

But then I was raised near a canal and a river,and I remember searching for the littlie who fell in one evening.

So I don't think swimming is something to cancel for SF, I really do not.

thanks everyone, had to go off - violin lesson

I have to make a decision now about this year's swimming but if I chose to withdraw she would not lose her place for next year I was told (club has had to move to a different pool, so many cannot now make it).

Hmm well I am really in two minds, I suppose swimming is no more of a risk than other activities. Really don't know. Underlying this is that dd is not swimming in her regular pool and I am not too happy about the change (pool staff, getting there, some other things like that). It's ok but less convenient and so on. She is not very happy with it so far and need to make a decision. She has the same coach whihc is great - everything else is not so great.

It is more the SF thing though that is worrying me - on top of all that I suppose.

Hmm so general consensus is I am BU.

Still unsure what to do though! Gawd I am such an awful ditherer. Argh.