Hey there,

I have a 9 week old baby (almost) and as I was on my way out this morning for his CHN check, a friend of mine dropped in with her almost 12 month old. I let her inside as I was running around and dressing Leo, but I remember that she was telling me last week that her baby was sick and I heard her sounding stuffed up. Just as I remember that, the baby had a coughing fit and started wheezing a lot. I faced Leo the other way and sort of hinted that she leave, the baby coughed pretty close to Leo.

I am terrified of him getting sick again. He is fully BFed, but already had one cold caught from me and influenza also caught from me when he was 5 weeks old. He ended up in hospital on a drip for 3 days.

This was 4 weeks ago, but he's only just got over the influenza. This friend knows this and I'm very annoyed that she brought her sick baby into my house with my 9 week old.

So, if this baby was sick last Thursday (first symtpoms showing), would she still have been contagious today? the mother had only just got sick, so she would have been contagious, but Im more worried about this 12 month old coughing everywhere near Leo, she even put her on my bed where I was dressing Leo, next to him.

Any advice?