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@rainriver I’m in the UK, and work in education. We are operating under very different definitions.

@nice19 I suffer from health anxiety in regular life, and it heightened a lot when I became a mum to my now toddler in 2021. I had an early loss in December and am now 7+5. Like you, I’ve been having moments of rumination about a maybe molar pregnancy causing rare cancer. No indication that it...

@terranova In my context, I’m an Early Years teacher and I’m in UK so practices may differ where you are. So ‘high risk’ are families where the child is on the Child Protection register and we are generally given very basic information about the ‘why’ if there placement on it by social work...

@martinaidung Came here to say this. Had to refer a child to child protection once because they had a rash that looked exactly like HSV. Social worker just made sure child had a swab taken, and it came back as thrush. They were a high risk family and had to be taken very seriously and ruled out...

@rapture2012 Oh Jesus you’re defensive 😂 suggest you calm down before coming a parent. Also how have you managed to quote something I didn’t even write?! Might also want to settle yourself down and read. What a joke. And guess what. I’m a mum. I have lived experience of this. You have zero...

@rapture2012 I work with children aged 3-5 and have my own 2.5 year old. I’ve been sick twice this pregnancy and I’m only 8 weeks lol. Yes there is a risk, but it’s very small, and if you do go on to have this child and then another, you can’t get angry at your own child for bringing every...

@frank12 Your baby has been exposed to viruses and bacteria every day of their life so far. If they haven’t been regularly or severely sick from interacting with your older child at this point, I think you’re safe to assume they aren’t immunocompromised. My son was 14 months when he started...

@frank12 Effectively yes. If you think of viruses like genres in a library - when your child gets one type of, say, adenovirus, it’ll be all symptoms go for the first strain (high temp, nausea, sickness and diarrhoea) and they’ll have some short-term immunity that will wear off over a few...

@katrina2017 I agree with your comment in general, but just to highlight that repeated use doesn’t strengthen the immune system. The immune system isn’t a muscle that can be strengthened. It is what it is, and your immune system functions the way it functions without much input from you. What...

@birdyyyy We all have kettles here so maybe it’s a bit easier for us to quickly boil?

@fetorahjesuslibertarian I’m not suggesting they are, but here the formula companies include boiling and cooling in their ‘making’ instructions so even if people don’t know why they’re doing it, the regulators have eliminated the risk. I cannot believe your regulatory bodies don’t think adding...

@seven2014 I fully breastfed, my son didn’t have formula until he was 10 months and my husband picked up a feed. I didn’t know why it said to boil and cool, we just followed instructions. It wasn’t until the whole scandal a couple of years back that killed some US babies came out that I actually...

@seven2014 Boil, leave to cool to 70, then mix. 70 is hot enough that it kills any cronobacter/salmonella in the powder but not too hot that any of the nutrients etc are fully killed off. It’s a risk v reward balance. It honestly shocked me that American’s are risking cronobacter for their newborns!

@fetorahjesuslibertarian FYI, cronobacter etc isn’t an issue here in the UK as we use boiled water cooled to 70 degrees to make formula. Do that and it kills any bacteria. Just, do that if you’re going to use formula. There’s no reason you can’t.

@iamsuperb I’m a mum and also wouldn’t want a baby hanging around when I’m trying to relax and get excited for a concert. I’ve been to places where babies have been present that absolutely kill the mood. In the first year of my son’s life I missed events that I would have enjoyed, but I wanted...