Sick with a newborn. Advice please

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Can anyone help with some advice please?
I am sick. Full on vomit and diarrhoea sick. And I have a 7 week old dd. What do I do? Stay away from her? Will she already have it?
And how serious is that for a newborn, doctor serious? A +e serious? I know dehydration is bad, but is first baby and my sick brain is confused at this time of night!

Thank you...

Are you breast feeding? If you are, keep it up but you may need to top up so you don't tire yourself out further, your body will be making antibodies to the bug so you will pass them on in your milk. If you aren't breast feeding, hopefully your baby will be fine, if she does get a little sick as long as she is taking more than half her normal feed and is weeing she will most likely be fine but any doctor would be happy to see a baby that small if you are at all worried

Thank you for the quick reply. I am express feeding, but she is on pretty much just breast milk with the occasional top up.
Do you think staying away from her is sensible, As this is possible for us? Or will it not help?

Hope You feel better soon ...
Just to let you know I had full on S&D a few weeks ago and I had to look after my LO ,12 weeks at the time. I was like you , worried if I would pass it on but I just vigorously washed my hands in between each toilet trip . It was only myself available to watch the baby so I just had to do it... O remember sitting on the bathroom floor thinking " please don't wake up right now while Im being sick ".

It was a two day bug and baby was perfectly fine xx

It is a tricky one but I would keep actual breastfeeding, rather than expressing...if possible...get someone else to feed her with your expressed milk while you're too poorly, but otherwise, just feed her directly as that will give her immediate access to your own antibodies.

I hope it passes soon, sounds very hard work x

If you are expressing, I would try to be meticulous about hygiene (by that I mean even more paranoid than normal) when sterilising, making up bottles and when expressing.

What Rooners said.

Antibodies are "live" in your milk. If you can, feed and keep feeding.

I had noro virus when dd was similar age. I have little recollection of those 72 hours. Dd was brought to me, id feed, she went back to DP / DM / DMil. All of those people got the virus. Dd didn't, never touched her.

Anecdotal of course, there is evidence out there to suggest antibodies pass through the milk when the mother is sick.

Hope you get better. Make sure you ask for help!

Thanks everyone. I am expressing full time anyway as bf didn't work for us, so will keep that up. Hopefully all will be well.
Really appreciate all the advice.