My 8m old daughter is currently on massive doses of steroids to treat infantile spasms. We've been advised that she will be immunosuppressed whilst on the medication and for at least 3 months afterwards. She was in hospital initially and we have been in and out the last few weeks, but now the dust is settling we are trying to plan what this means for us as a family. She has 2 big brothers at primary school so some exposure to their germs is inevitable. She has to do the school run in the buggy, but I have been discouraging her army of fans from getting in her face. We stopped all our baby groups (normally do one thing every weekday) but I'm going to go mad trapped in the house. She is likely to have development delay as a result of the spasms so we have to weigh up potential benefit of the groups against infection risk. The other issue is swimming for the boys - they can't go unless she tags along.
I would really appreciate hearing how other families have managed this.