Thoughts on Daycare Sickness and other things
This will probably turn into a rant. So HFM is going around our daycare, with the last diagnosis being the 13th of May. My husband and I have travel planned for the last few days of May where my 7m old will be staying with my parents. In my mind, I should keep her out of daycare. We also have his family coming to town this week where she’d be out for some of the week anyways. And the following week of our trip she’ll be out too. I won’t be risking any pay, so what’s the harm. But my husband’s friends thinks we’re wrong. They were supposed to watch our daughter this week, but we said it probably wasn’t a good idea since their son had HFM on Monday, and her older daughter might have it now. The parents don’t have any sickness, but adults can be asymptomatic and I think they’re hurt we don’t want them to watch our kid. But why run the risk or is there no point in keeping her out for 2 weeks??
At the same time, I’m ranting because (I’m a FTM, so STM feel free to chime in), they boast about not caring about precautions for their second kid. They glorify the fact that they were giving food at 3 months because since it was their second they were less stressed, after I expressed worry about people giving my daughter food she’d never had before. Am I crazy for thinking certain things shouldn’t matter whether it’s your first or tenth??