Hellobee Boards Topic: Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?

Hellobee Boards Topic: Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 10 May 2026 02:15:31 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-298098 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:32:24 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 298098@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Just shy of 15 months. We just weaned. He's rarely sick, but I fully expect that will change if/when he gets into some sort of daycare situation. Mrsbells on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297966 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:01:37 +0000 Mrsbells 297966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ my Lo will be 5 months old in 5 days. When she eas EBF and we were home she never got sick. Once I started taking her to daycare and adding a tiny bit of formula to each bottle of breastmilk she gets sick a lot. I guess its the daycare mediagirl on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297924 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:48:44 +0000 mediagirl 297924@https://boards.hellobee.com/ This makes me so sad hearing how all the babies got si k when they started daycare! I hate that she will be starting in two weeks. I haven't been sick in 9 months (had a bad cold during my first trimester). Since then, none of us have been sick. M hasn't been sick... yet. T.H.O.U. on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297913 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:36:23 +0000 T.H.O.U. 297913@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My LO was EBF and didn't get sick until she started daycare. She started with a runny nose/congestion but eventually it go bad and we put her on antibiotics. heffalump on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297900 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:44:10 +0000 heffalump 297900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My lo has been on formula since she was a week old and she has had one cold that wasn't bad at all at 8 months, it only lasted a week. She's 14 months now. I'm a sahm so she's not in day care, but we do go to lots of mommy and me type classes so she is exposed to kids often. BabyBoecksMom on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297883 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:24:37 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 297883@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Willa is bf, with occasional formula, and she was sick every week for the first 2 months of daycare. Now it's more like once a month. Honeybee on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297879 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:46:51 +0000 Honeybee 297879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Both kida are formula fed. DD only got sick once in the 9 months before she started daycare; then it was like a few days every monthe the first year. Now its like once every couple months. She's only had antibiotics once, though, and nothing too serious. DS got hand, foot, and mouth at 3 months. Now both kids have a cold, so this is his second illness. mynoahbear on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297868 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:19:27 +0000 mynoahbear 297868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ LO is 8.5 months old and is mostly EBF. She does get an occasional bottle of formula though. She was slightly sick after her 6 months vaccine. Then last month she caught her first cold... runny nose, cough, fever. She wasn't miserable and it didn't affect her appetite at all. DH and I caught her cold and were both miserable though. loveisstrange on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297867 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:08:35 +0000 loveisstrange 297867@https://boards.hellobee.com/ C is FF and has only been sick once, she got a little bit of a cold a couple days after we brought her home from the hospital. She's almost 6 months and around other kids a LOT. banana on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297865 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:08:00 +0000 banana 297865@https://boards.hellobee.com/ my son was ebf for a year and got sick only once! he only really started getting sick when he started daycare. I hate the gems at daycare! cvbee on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297862 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 02:39:26 +0000 cvbee 297862@https://boards.hellobee.com/ bf 5 months and never been sick......and I expose him to lots of germs since the start runsyellowlites on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297845 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:00:10 +0000 runsyellowlites 297845@https://boards.hellobee.com/ DS is 8, was ff, & has had antibiotics twice in his whole life with one or two stomach bugs in the mix. The first antibiotics were for an ear infection when he was 8 months that just wouldn't go away & the second was last year moreso just covering the bases bc he had been having random fevers & said his throat was hurting, strep test was negative but I took the script anyways figuring it might knock out whatever had been causing the fevers.... The pharmacist looked at me like I was nuts when she asked if he'd ever had amoxicillin & I said "no". Lol DD is ebf & 5 mths. She had a couple days she seemed to not be feeling well but it may have been the beginning of teething bc she also had a random low grade fever..... A few weeks later the drool started. Lol. So I guess she hasn't been sick yet. I'm actually sick right now with runny nose & bad body aches. I just keep nursing her knowing I'm giving her the antibodies for whatever it is I'm fighting off right now, hoping it helps keep her well bc this stinks! Lol pinkcupcake on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297838 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:26:14 +0000 pinkcupcake 297838@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Ebf and her most serious sickness was a cough she developed at 3 months old. She isn't in daycare and isn't exposed to other babies that often though, so that may have something to do with it brownie on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297836 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:22:01 +0000 brownie 297836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Ebf and sick for the first 4 weeks of daycare. Then off and on. What I have noticed (myself being miserably sick myself right now) he gets sick but never as bad as me. looch on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297827 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:11:13 +0000 looch 297827@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My son was formula fed and he has been sick twice, he is 21 months old. He is also not a day care kid. One was a cold he caught from my husband, which turned into an eye infection, the second time was a stomach virus he contracted while on vacation, probably from germs on a toy. I really think it has more to do with exposure to other children, especially siblings. IME it is also the day care kids that get sick more, but I have no scientific proof to back this up, just ancedotes from other other moms. Mrs. Superhero on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297826 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:10:08 +0000 Mrs. Superhero 297826@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Both my girls were EBF, TG didn't get sick once until she was over a year old and WB is 7.5 months and never been sick. lemondrop on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297824 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:03:48 +0000 lemondrop 297824@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Cam is bf (with occasional formula supplementation) and hasn't been sick yet at 8 months (knock on wood!). We were on vacation recently and my husband and I both caught a bad cold, Cam didn't blink an eye- thank goodness for breastfeeding! Worth all of the troubles in the beginning! Mrs. Sunglasses on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297820 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:57:17 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 297820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Sienna is EBF and she got sick when she was 2 weeks old. She go sick last week sneezing/runny nose so nothing drastic, but ya, it's daycare for sure. Mrs. Bee on "Is your baby bf/ff, and how often do they get sick?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-baby-bfff-and-how-often-do-they-get-sick#post-297818 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:54:19 +0000 Mrs. Bee 297818@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Charlie didn't get sick until he was around 9 months old when I weaned. Olive is 11 months old, and she's been sick at least 4 times already even though she is exclusively breastfed. I think Charlie brings home a lot of germs from daycare. I caught her cold and I have a lot of phlegm, so I think that's why Olive couldn't sleep tonight. She was up for 2 1/2 hours and I just got her back down. Hope she stays down! How old is your LO, are they bf/ff and how often do they get sick?