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.