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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are in for a year of sickness and you can do it now or whenever they start group care or school. Your expectations are not realistic. [/quote]

+1.  Human immune systems don't just spring to life all by themselves.  Your baby has an immune system that needs to learn to cope with every pathogen that is out there.  It happens as they are exposed to them.  Yes, they are exposed to far more in a shared childcare setting, but they have to be exposed to them.  If you shield your child with a nanny, then when they enter pre-school or school (whether public or private) they will be exposed to the wide variety of germs and pathogens that are out there.  And you can't even tell sometimes when a child has one.  Some of your child's school friends may be carriers.  Your child will also be exposed in public when you go to a mall, to a library, to a children's play place, to an airport, etc.  Just be aware that whenever you start to expose your child to the public (both adults and children), they will start to be exposed to all sorts of things that will make them sick.  As their immune system learns, they will be affected by fewer of them.  So you can expose them now or later.  Your choice.[/quote]

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