Daycare sickness dilemma

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your child needed ear tubes then they would have gotten those ear infections no matter what. Also, eczema is not contagious and did not come from daycare. Styles are also not contagious.

The blatant misinformation that now regularly gets posted here is shocking. All part of an agenda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Daycare is not for infants. Infants don't need socialization. That is for ages 2-3+.

Daycare is for anychild needing care during the day if no other adult is home to care for them. Children of all ages need socialization, it may kook different at 5 months than at 3 years old, but it's need. Keeping your child in the house all day with mom, grandma or nanny because of germs ( outside of rare medical need) isn't good for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had 2 under 2 and had to put both in daycare after I went back to work. Out of the two years, my older one had 8 ear infections and had to have her ear tubes inserted. My younger one went through 3 times of hand foot mouth and what's worse was my husband and I AND my mother got hfm from caring for her. Last but not least, we have experienced almost every child virus including RSV, eczema, diarrhea, fever, stye, pink eye etc etc

Both of them started daycare 6 months and 3 months respectively and we had two very rough winters. Our kids got sent home frequently, and they also got sick from going to daycare at the first place. It seems I'm paying for getting sick myself and inconveniencing myself for having to pick up and caring for sick kids during work days.

Guess what? This is our last week with our daycare, and sure enough, both got sent home the exact same afternoon, with the policy of 24-hour fever free, they have to miss tomorrow's school, which means I have to watch my kids and work.......

For those looking for daycare options, if possible, home daycare or nanny share is the way to go. Daycare is good for socialization, but the sicknesses never end and daycare will never be clean enough for kids to not get sick.

This is why I am a SAHM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your child needed ear tubes then they would have gotten those ear infections no matter what. Also, eczema is not contagious and did not come from daycare. Styles are also not contagious.

Nope. We had a terrible string of illness and ear infections with our kid in daycare. Our pediatrician told us that we either needed to get our kid tubes or pull them from daycare. We switched to a nanny and the ear infections stopped. They were secondary to all the viruses going around daycare. Our kid is 12 now and never needed tubes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your child needed ear tubes then they would have gotten those ear infections no matter what. Also, eczema is not contagious and did not come from daycare. Styles are also not contagious.

Nope. We had a terrible string of illness and ear infections with our kid in daycare. Our pediatrician told us that we either needed to get our kid tubes or pull them from daycare. We switched to a nanny and the ear infections stopped. They were secondary to all the viruses going around daycare. Our kid is 12 now and never needed tubes.

Right, in other words, they are not catching ear infections at daycare. They are secondary to other infections due to the kids anatomy. So whether or not you go to daycare does not change your anatomy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your child needed ear tubes then they would have gotten those ear infections no matter what. Also, eczema is not contagious and did not come from daycare. Styles are also not contagious.

The blatant misinformation that now regularly gets posted here is shocking. All part of an agenda.

Lol I hope you’re referring to the op saying her child got eczema from daycare. Because yes that’s misinformation and yes it’s an agenda. What’s yours?

[Anonymous]

Not every kid super sick.

My DC was in day care from 6 months to 5 yrs old.

-Had HFM.
-Went home sick 2x.
- a few days missed for colds

[Anonymous]

My youngest is 10 and I promise you won't care about this in a few years. Use whatever care situation is convenient for your family. There are plus and minuses for all. Kids get sick no matter what. I remember around 18 months being a particularly difficult stretch of time when it felt like it never ended. Even now with older elementary kids I cringe thinking about back to school and winter illnesses. It's not fun. But the sooner you accept it and deal with your anxiety, the better.

Oh, one of mine was a premie, and started in a big day care center at 5 months. It was fine.