Am I being over protective mother?

[SwivelHips]

DS is 14wks old and so far has been very healthy.
Fast forward to the weekend. DSD (17) has pretty bad virus sore throat, cough etc
I've always been a bit paranoid about germs/viral infections but with DS blimey I need to chill. So remaining calm I've asked DSD to keep a healthy distance from DS until she's well again.
Is that fair enough or should I just chill out? DH doesn't have my germ thing so is oblivious to this.....

its worth looking at/thinking about the mothers you see with about 3 kids or more. their small babies survive all their siblings bringing home germies from school.

also children do need to have their immune system tested so that long term its stronger.

understand the worry though !

Hmm okay I'll try....my thought process has been like this for years though I've just transferred it from me to ds. Don't want him growing up with my hang ups. Dsd thinks she has toncillitis, I think too many late nights and not enough veg :)

If she has tonsillitis I would personally ask her to keep well away from your DS. Tonsillitis can become quite nasty especially in such a young child.

Definitely no kissing, no close contact, personally I would ask her to come another time. Not worth risking your little one to get really ill IMO.

No I think that you are being totally fine. We have lost the art of proper nursing in this age, when we are sick we should quarantine ourselves and keep away from others till we are non-infectious.

I am heartly sick of seeing others drag their kids around dosed up on calpol with thier noses streaming and obviously sick, and pass it on to everyone at playgroups or church or whatever.

I would chill out and give thought as to how your protectiveness towards your DS might be at the expense of your (and your DS's) relationship with your DSD.

Ah should say dsd lives with us full time, she usually does hide out upstairs most nights but does spend a bit of time with ds.
I reckon she's run down after Leeds festival and has cold virus with swollen glands. Still I don't want ds to come down with it, he's teething and doesn't sleep as it is.

I think her keeping a bit of distance won't do any harm.

Try to keep distance, and extra good hygiene. However, in practice it may be very difficult to prevent him from catching it if you share the same house. Potentially a lightswitch touched by her could result in another person transmitting it to the baby. That is just one example, same for door handles, cups, remote controls etc. Cold virus spreads very easily through the air and through dirty hands etc.

Good luck and hope it turns out that she does not have tonsillitis.