Nearby relatives that we are in much contact with came down with RSV a couple of weeks ago. Their 3 month old is still in the ICU at the children's hospital.
My kids now have "that cough" (it is a really awful sounding, chesty cough) and DS is quite sick with other symptoms as well (DD not so much so, but she has an incredible immune system, hardly ever gets sick). I woke up with a scratchy throat the last two days but it isn't persistent and I'm wondering if it is just dry air or if I've gotten it already...
Anyway...
Here I am at 37.5 weeks feeling quite 'ripe', and having delivered both my DD and my DS a bit before their due dates.
I do not want my newborn to get RSV. Given that my kids already have the virus, how do I prevent that? Should I purposefully get sick myself and hope I've run the course before the baby arrives, so that the baby gets the antibodies from me? Or is the virus itself dangerous to the baby even before birth?
My kids now have "that cough" (it is a really awful sounding, chesty cough) and DS is quite sick with other symptoms as well (DD not so much so, but she has an incredible immune system, hardly ever gets sick). I woke up with a scratchy throat the last two days but it isn't persistent and I'm wondering if it is just dry air or if I've gotten it already...
Anyway...
Here I am at 37.5 weeks feeling quite 'ripe', and having delivered both my DD and my DS a bit before their due dates.
I do not want my newborn to get RSV. Given that my kids already have the virus, how do I prevent that? Should I purposefully get sick myself and hope I've run the course before the baby arrives, so that the baby gets the antibodies from me? Or is the virus itself dangerous to the baby even before birth?