Dangers of Coldsores for Newborns (Warning content may disturb)

[satya]

I didn't realise it could be deadly but I have taken extra special care whenever DstepD is around Brock and has a cold sore or infection of some sort as I know he just doesn't have the immunity to fight it off.

Off track slightly but one thing I read whilst pregnant is that babies & young kids can throw out massive amounts of infection germs (that's probably the wrong terminology) of whatever they are trying to fight and therefore infect those around them.

I thought it was interesting at the time but it was brought home how true it was when my mum contracted an infection and ended up hospitalised a couple of days after Brock was born. He was put into the special care nursery with an unknown infection on the day of his birth and remained there for 5 days. My mum was present during the labour & afterwards but became very ill later about 48 hours later (& remained in hossy about the same amount of time Brock did). She is undergoing Herceptin treatment for breast cancer so her immunity is not what it should be. It was a very stressful time having both mother & son with unknown infections but thankfully both recovered.

You can never be too careful when it comes to babies & infections.

[briggsy's girl]

isn't it always the way - stressful night, and one of the blighters pops up in the morning. i'm super stressy about what this will mean for the gremlin - even though i KNOW i've had this virus forever and probably pumping immunity across the umbilical cord...

[Shanti]

BG - we're one of the lucky one's (if you could call it that lol) that have had it for years so I think our bubs' will be fine and have enough immunity to protect them from getting it from us and hopefully from others.... It would be awful to get the virus now while pregnant or just after bub is born....

I suppose those first few weeks of bub's life are the most 'delicate' huh.... and after that most babies have enough immunity to protect them (if given to them from Mum thru cord)

[briggsy's girl]

i think i'm just worried cos we've been through so much to get here and was hoping to make it to 12 weeks unscathed - but instead i've had an almost constant stream of things going wrong! and this just takes the cake - i hate the damn things!