https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 16 May 2026 03:32:37 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1211471 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:40:02 +0000 hilsy85 1211471@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@shinymama: yup that makes sense, he was also most congested right after waking up! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1211465 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:39:05 +0000 shinymama 1211465@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: If it's a cough, I just give it some time because like you said, it tends to get better as the morning progresses. I think it's worse right when they wake up from being flat overnight and fluid draining? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1211461 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:36:38 +0000 hilsy85 1211461@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: nope it was just hoarse in the morning and then started to break up later after he woke up. </p> <p>We kept him home :) Turns out like half of his baby friends were out sick as well, so wouldn't have been as much fun anyway! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1211082 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:52:32 +0000 immabeetoo 1211082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I personally give a mental side eye to anyone's LO out in public, mouthing toys, if they appear to be sick. I know my son's nose runs just from teething, but he appears otherwise 100% fine. If they're coughing and snotty... ugh. I try to have some empathy because I know sometimes circumstances don't allow for everyone to stay at home but... I hate to think someone is spreading germs just because they're sick of being at home! So, I try to follow the same rule for myself... even when I'm desperate to go to the indoor gym :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1211025 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:33:05 +0000 MamaMoose 1211025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: does he sound like a seal? A couple months ago m started with some hoarseness that quickly developed into the tell tale seal bark cough from croup. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210937 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:13:26 +0000 littlek 1210937@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree with @Freckles about the hacking cough. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210861 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 11:52:32 +0000 MsLipGloss 1210861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: That by itself would probably not be enough for me to keep LO home. If you think it's okay, I bet it is! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210731 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 11:20:49 +0000 Freckles 1210731@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Fever or really bad hacking cough. LO had what sounded like croup (and was miserable in the morning) so i kept her home for 2 days so she could get the rest she needed to get better. It also depends on how they're acting. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210723 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 11:19:09 +0000 hilsy85 1210723@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsLipGloss: @MamaMoose: hmm what about a hoarse sounding cough? Ya'll are making me second guess my decision to take LO to class! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210626 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:51:02 +0000 LuLu Mom 1210626@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Fever/Diaherra/Vomitting and a plemy cough/nose or if she's acting "off" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210604 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:45:06 +0000 Alivoo01 1210604@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same as @MsLipGloss: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210570 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:34:04 +0000 MsLipGloss 1210570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: Yep. That's the only reason I have sent LO back to daycare even though she is still coughing . . . the cough is just from her teething drainage. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210567 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:33:03 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 1210567@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A cough is how other kids get sick so we stay home. Now with my two year old I might send him with a dry cough if it has been over a week since he got sick and that is the only residual symptom because by then I'm assuming we are out of the incubation period. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210529 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:24:44 +0000 MamaMoose 1210529@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: Any sort of wet cough. Sometimes she coughs because she's drooling a lot from teething, obviously that I ignore. But if she has a sickness related cough I get her checked out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210504 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:18:31 +0000 hilsy85 1210504@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: do you mean like a phlegmy cough? Or a dry cough? I feel like every time I am around children I hear at least one of them coughing that chunky sounding cough! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210494 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:15:51 +0000 MamaMoose 1210494@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same at @MsLipGloss: And if there is a cough I don't take her to school until she's been cleared by a doctor. A baby cough is nothing to mess with. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210485 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:14:11 +0000 MsLipGloss 1210485@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: Yeah, I am with you on that! I have, a couple of times, just bundled LO up to take her for a brief stroll in a nearby park . . . I figure if nothing else, the motion is soothing, and maybe there would be enough to explore visually that it would distract her from how crappy she was feeling. And it gives me a nice mental re-set too.</p> <p>ETA: Because while it's public, I can still keep a safe distance from others. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210450 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:06:13 +0000 littlek 1210450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same as @MsLipGloss </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210449 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:05:51 +0000 hilsy85 1210449@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsLipGloss: ah yes, definitely LO's mood/attitude probably plays the biggest role for me! Although the times when he's really cranky because he doesn't feel well are the times when I most want/need to get out of the house, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210444 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:04:04 +0000 MsLipGloss 1210444@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I keep LO home if she has a fever, has vomited and/or had diarrhea in the last 24 hours, or just looks like she is too sick/pooped to be subjected to gen pop! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210443 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:04:01 +0000 looch 1210443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Runny nose with yellow green mucus and/or fever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/at-what-point-do-you-keep-your-lo-home-from-daycareclasses#post-1210441 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:02:37 +0000 hilsy85 1210441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At what point do you make the decision to keep your LO home if they're sick with a cold? Just curious, since it seems like LOs everywhere are constantly sick now that winter is almost upon us... </p>