What do you do when 1 child is sick?

[Still_Learning]

I'm curious what others do

Ds is 5yo and chose to sleep in his own room about 10 months ago. (I still miss him in our bed)

we have a 5 month old dd as well, bedsharing with us

ds had a fever all day and I can't bear for him to sleep alone when he has a fever. He reacts really weird to fever, always behaves like it's really high even with low fevers

so I brought him to our bed tonight. I'm going to be squished between him and dd and know his coughing will mess with our sleep

dh suggested that it's not fair to dd as she may get sick and her sleep will be disturbed

I can't just send dh to sleep with ds as dh can sleep through anything

as for dd, I figure she's been exposed already. There's no "more exposed", right?

So what do other folks do in this situation?

[Katie T]

We still cosleep. The weird thing is for us anyways one childs coughing doesnt disturb the other, unlike how it is for me awake w/every cough. Id say do it and see how it goes if its just not working then you can try something new. hope hes well soon.

[Still_Learning]

Thanks. Did not go well. His coughing woke DD a lot and left me with almost zero sleep.

Hopefully he'll feel better tonight. If he's not bad I'll try DH sleeping with him.