3 month old risk

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Hi all, now that all restrictions have been over for a while and mask wearing seems to be at a low, I've been a little worried about my 3 month old DD catching Covid and how it might affect her. My husband and I are both double jabbed so hopefully we wouldn't pass it on, but we do visit friends and family too.

Has anybody had a baby or heard of a baby this young getting infected and if so, how did they deal with it?

TIA

I have a 6 month old and have been treating him / the situation as I would have done had he been born pre Covid. When he was a newborn was careful about too many people holding him and made sure no one had coldsores / colds / sick etc and made people wash their hands before holding him. I would have been like this pre covid.

I now take him to classes and out with me as normal. I don't want him hidden away for both social and health reasons (health as in I want him to come into contact with germs). I've got friends who had babies just before lockdown and they hate that their babies were locked up, they developed no immune systems and didn't see many people. I'm not putting my kid through that if I can avoid it.

There are of course unlucky examples, but on the whole Babies aren't supposed to get too ill from it, so I'm willing to risk it. I'm obviously not a maniac and don't let him lick the floor, like I say I imagine I'm behaving the same way I would be pre Covid

That's a really good point actually. My girl has got a cold at the moment but after about a day she seems a lot better already so hoping her immune system is kicking in!

I hear about these babies being hospitalised and it just makes my anxiety go through the roof. But deff don't want to keep her hidden forever

I had a baby last August and have never been worried about them catching covid. We have been out and about to classes, soft play etc and has been held by any friend or family member who wanted a cuddle throughout the whole thing. Obviously when newborn people stayed away if feeling ill the same as they would in normal times. But I wanted the baby to be exposed to germs and normal social interactions. We now have a happy, healthy and social one year old with no issues with separation anxiety who started nursery a couple of weeks ago without any tears and touch wood is yet to have a cold or any other illness. In my opinion the risk of keeping them hid away for the worry of covid causes much bigger issues down the line. All the parents I know who kept their babies away from people have been inundated with illnesses and colds once they started mixing. My friends little girl had covid at 4 months and it was a sniffle and a very slight cough for 2 days.