Would you go to playgroup if your LO was sick

[didispunk]

This is such a tricky ones,

as everyone else in my group brings sick kids regardless of sickness to playgroup, and then I kept mine at home.. well then i get back there when my kids are better and they end up sick again....

so i think its a loose loose situation, you do what you think is best!! As others I know for a fact in my group bring their kids weather sick or not.. or gastro or not..etc..

[westy]

I dont take my kids anywhere if they are sick (other then to the Dr's) , for two main reasons #1 being that if my kids are sick i think they are best to be at home and try and get over the sickness and
#2 ... I dont like to share bugs with others so think it's only fair that i stay away until the kids are all better.

[Olive]

with my mothers group, when we just have one child each, if the kids had a cold, it was ok to still come to group as that was a group decision, gastro no for obvious reason, but our kids hardly got sick, but when second children started arriving the rules sort of changed as a lot more was at risk, two kids sick isnt fun, so we avoid group if the kids have a cold, plus after i had DD i had a PPH and needed blood transfusions, i was told to avoid sick people, so everyone was more wary of spreading germs!

i wouldnt go if your worried

[Ozziehoffy]

so i think its a loose loose situation, you do what you think is best!! As others I know for a fact in my group bring their kids weather sick or not.. or gastro or not..etc..

OMG my jaw completely dropped open! If I was in that group... and this is me... I would be high tailing it out of there because I think that is HIGHLY irresponsible - particularly the gastro bit. It's been so bad in the past year... I've never heard of so many people getting sick with it. It stays around because of people like that!

Kelebek.... just today at playgroup - what do you know... kid with YELLOW snotty nose! I swear if we get it in our house AGAIN I'll scream! I just had DH and both the younger boys sick not last week but the week before and cost me about $100 by the time the doc and anitbiotics etc were all paid for! Yep... ab's were about $80 for all of them.

[feeb]

Depends!!

If fever, misrable, bad runny nose, cough or gastro nope no way.

But if just a slight runny nose and otherwise happy and playful yes I do. I know myself I have had a runny nose for about 8 weeks that comes and goes during the day and I am otherwise well just annoying runny nose.

My group no one turns up with sick kid any more than what i allready discussed above about runny nose.

Its respectful to not infect others!

[Early Kids]

Depends on the "cold" if it's a bit of a runny nose then we still go out. If it's green snot we stay home. If it's a slight cough (as in only a cough every now and then not constant) we go out. If it's constant coughing we stay home. If they are running a fever I always stay home and Gastro is a def stay at home... vomiting and diarrhoea is NOT fun when out and about! I've already had a few accidents in the car from Brendan (3) as he gets gastro quite a bit and very suddenly too.

[Ginger]

i get sooo angry if people turn up to playgroup with sick kids. it is so inconsiderate!

someone turned up to my MG with a kid with hand, foot and mouth disease once and of course, ds1 ended up getting it- just a couple of days before a holiday that we'd had planned for months.
i honestly think it is so rude and inconsiderate.

[*TripleJ*]

DS gets a cold pretty much everytime we go but ive never seen a sick baby or toddler so i dont know it happened twice in a row he got better then we went to PG then he got sick again this has been the only time he hasnt gotten sick

[feeb]

i get sooo angry if people turn up to playgroup with sick kids. it is so inconsiderate!

someone turned up to my MG with a kid with hand, foot and mouth disease once and of course, ds1 ended up getting it- just a couple of days before a holiday that we'd had planned for months.
i honestly think it is so rude and inconsiderate.

OMG are you serious that is pathetic!!! That is sooooooooooooooooo contagious!

[Ginger]

i know! dh was livid

i know the OP wasn't posting about anything that serious though, so my post was a little OTT

[Miss.September]

Nope. For two reasons. One - I don't want to get sick myself, let alone DD. I'm tired and run down as it is and have just gotten over a cold. I need all the energy I can muster!! Two - DD isn't herself when she has even the tiniest of colds and I'd hate it if she picked one up from another child. IMO, if I need to get out of the house and she has a cold, she's into the pram and we go for a walk. Too many people don't know where to draw the line and stay at home when really sick. How did swine flu get out of hand again??

Corelly x