Do you take your children out when they are ill?

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I am feeling like a bad mum today but my ds3 has a cold and hacking wheezy cough and i had to take him out this morning to do the school run for my other 2 boys. I had nobody to help me and it was so cold but I just had to do it. I hope I don't make him feel worse. Im such a paranoid mum after ds3 was in hospital for 5 days with bronchiolitis but it is so hard to just stay at home when you have other children. I wrap him up very warm obviously but just wanted to know what do other people do?

I try not too, although mostly because I don't want to pass it on!

it's sucky when you're ill, but I think with kids as long as they're wrapped up well, and esp if you have them in a pushchair or whatever, they'll be fine,
it won't make him more ill.

I'd have done the same as you - the other DCs have to go to school, you can't leave the sick child unattended. The cough is caused by a viral or bacterial infection, not by being cold, in any case.

Generally no, but sometimes you just have to - like the school run. I would nip out for milk and bread if we had no food, but wouldn't take them for a mooch around Sainsburys.

Wouldn't take them with obviously infectious symptoms like vomiting or new chickenpox though.