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LO's pretty healthy. She's been sick maybe 3 times in her 20 months of life. Sick = bad congestion, runny nose and she had a cough for 2 of the sickies.

No! 7.5 months, and hasn't been sick once! *knock on wood*

Yes, maybe 4 or 5 times this year.

My LO had never been sick for the first 10 months of her life...then she started having more interactions with older babies and young kids and she got roseola, a bad cold, and now croup...so 3 illnesses in a 2 month period...I hate it when she's sick and I'm dreading the rest of the winter. I kind of wish people would keep their kids at home or cancel plans when their kids are sick...you can't tell someone to leave when they show up with a sick kid but I don't want my LO to get sick.

Not really. He mostly gets sick when we travel, but other than one throat infection has only had little colds.

What's a lot? I think he has had 6 colds since he was born? 3 of them were pretty bad, and it's the worst when he was also teething.

He was breastfed until he was a year, but I think he gets sick a lot because I try to not be paranoid about him chewing on grocery store cart handles, eating food off the floor, etc.... It sucks to have a sick kid, but I figure that in the end, his immune system is going to be pretty strong from the exposure to all those germs. So, in my thinking, the more germs the better, as long as we're not talking something deadly like e.coli.

Normal amount I think, I'm a germ freak so lots of hand washing and disinfecting. She has a cold right now, this is probably her 4th one in her 13.5 months. Her older brother (10) was never sick until preschool, then he got it all (that's when my germ phobia started), since lo is at a baby-sitters everyday I'm hoping that helps with the preschool stage.
Now her step-sisters are sick every.single.time they come over. Their daycare and Mother don't think hand washing, or covering mouths are important. One of them always always always has a cold or something (ages 7 and 4).