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I can't believe my DD is already 8 weeks old! She has had a rough start unfortunately.
When she was 2 weeks old her older brother brought home a cold from school. All of our hands were dry and chapped from the vigorous hand washing, but at 4 weeks old she came down with the sniffles. Two days later she was hospitalized with RSV.
All in all she handled the virus well and didn't need much supportive care hospitalization was more for fluids since she coughed until she gagged and lost her feeds. Breastfeeding was challenging but we made it through still EBF and she is completely better now. But the two days in the hospital did make me think how bad it must be for whooping cough, and how much guilt I would have if she was there with a VPD that I chose not to vaccinate for.
Then on Friday I learned that DS was possibly exposed to norovirus
. So far he has been fine, hoping we avoid it (I think we are almost through the incubation period so might be lucky), but if he does get it, I know that she will probably get that too, and I imagine she will need to be hospitalized again at her age.
I also read in the vaccination forum that a RSV vaccine was fast tracked. I hope for other parents it is successful and available soon. I hope that RSV and norovirus both have successful vaccines soon, because I could definitely do with less of those to viruses in my life.
When she was 2 weeks old her older brother brought home a cold from school. All of our hands were dry and chapped from the vigorous hand washing, but at 4 weeks old she came down with the sniffles. Two days later she was hospitalized with RSV.
All in all she handled the virus well and didn't need much supportive care hospitalization was more for fluids since she coughed until she gagged and lost her feeds. Breastfeeding was challenging but we made it through still EBF and she is completely better now. But the two days in the hospital did make me think how bad it must be for whooping cough, and how much guilt I would have if she was there with a VPD that I chose not to vaccinate for.
Then on Friday I learned that DS was possibly exposed to norovirus
. So far he has been fine, hoping we avoid it (I think we are almost through the incubation period so might be lucky), but if he does get it, I know that she will probably get that too, and I imagine she will need to be hospitalized again at her age.I also read in the vaccination forum that a RSV vaccine was fast tracked. I hope for other parents it is successful and available soon. I hope that RSV and norovirus both have successful vaccines soon, because I could definitely do with less of those to viruses in my life.
