The first year
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Topic: The first year
Posted By: mummy_becks
Subject: The first year
Date Posted: 05 August 2008 at 9:30pm
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Do you believe that the first year of starting something new you are more sick than any other time??? I was told that when children start DC the first year there they are the most sick as they pick soooo much up. And that is the same for children who don't go to DC when they start school. I believe this for my boys. Andrew started DC at 5 months and those first few months he was quite sick picking up a number of bugs, and now with Josh this year being his first he is picking those bugs up now. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 05 August 2008 at 9:33pm
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Certainly was the case for Maya, the first 6 mths she was at daycare she had more time off than time there. But she hasn't really been sick at all since. (touch wood!) -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 05 August 2008 at 9:47pm
definately seems to be true for my kids! ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 05 August 2008 at 9:56pm
| i got told that about the first year of teaching Becks. |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 05 August 2008 at 9:57pm
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I was also told it is the same as starting a new job as well. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 05 August 2008 at 11:30pm
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Yup, it sure seems that way for us!
We've had the worst year for bugs, this year, since she was born. (She started kindy in Feb) ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 06 August 2008 at 1:53am
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It was def true for Gina - she used to get ALL the colds etc going around in the first few months of starting DC ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 06 August 2008 at 6:44am
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Oh joy, sounds like bubs first year of Kindy/School is going to be fun
I have noticed though that DC kids are quite sickly when they first start off, they seem to pick up everything under the sun. Breastfed or not it doesn't seem to make a difference either
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Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 06 August 2008 at 8:23am
| Maybe because they're being exposed to a whole lot more germs and environment based things that they haven't developed an immunity to, because they've never been exposed to it before?? I'm no scientist, but I think you develop immunity only after exposure, so yeah. |
Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 06 August 2008 at 8:31am
Ashlee has not been 100% well for a long time! Probably about the length she's been in care (almost a year now). I was just wondering when we were going to stop getting the runny bums and noses  and she's sick yet again. She's just started a new daycare so a whole bunch of new bugs have been picked up and I'm just trying to decide today whether or not to send her to daycare or stay home.
That's the first time I've heard that, and it's certainly true for us! |
Posted By: ooEvaoo
Date Posted: 06 August 2008 at 11:33am
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I thinnk Kahtrell is doing well, he's only been really sick once with a flu that was going around the DC, but apart from that.....well and the runny nose every once in a while he's doing fine..and he's been in care since Feb. However the cold that he is recovering from now was caught from me!! ------------- 
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Posted By: ooEvaoo
Date Posted: 06 August 2008 at 11:35am
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But yeah all the bugs they pick up help to build their immunity up. However colds and flus are always going around, and they're no immunity to stop them...sigh.... -------------
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 06 August 2008 at 11:37am
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I (as a preschool teacher) would definitely say new kids get sick more often but not all of them.... some kids just seem to get everything going around and some don't and no difference in how they were fed either at least in the kids I have taught..
some children do seem to get bug after bug for the first 6 months or so though:( and when I was training I got sick the first year but after that hardly sick since... ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 06 August 2008 at 11:41am
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yep was true for us! Z had never been sick til he started kindy at 2. I also notice the other kids are sicker more often having an older sibling? ------------- Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4
 
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 06 August 2008 at 11:42am
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good news is i watched a thing on tv about having a spotless house and those who don't their kids have more cold s in the beginning but are healthier later!:) ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: shaz
Date Posted: 06 August 2008 at 12:53pm
AND If you have big kids at school and a new baby the baby will pick up heaps of bugs even if the big kids don't get sick that often 
Alyssa had so many colds as a wee baby but hasn't actually been that bad at DC so far (touch wood). I heard somewhere that in your fisrt years (I think they said up to ten years) you need to catch about 100 colds/flu before you build up immunity. ------------- Mum to Natasha Aroha 9/12/1995, Alexandra Makareta Waimarie 22/4/1998 and....Alyssa Frances Hopaea 18/03/2007 
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Posted By: Shorty
Date Posted: 06 August 2008 at 1:16pm
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We have found our son to be very unwell his first year at care.
We are under a paed and he said we have a good chance of having a healthy son as he gets older as he is buidling his immune system with all the bugs he has had. Our DC has been through Mumps, Chicken pox, Gastro and are now going though NITS! They put a sign on the door every time a bug is going through. ------------- http://www.alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Jay_R
Date Posted: 06 August 2008 at 3:20pm
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Joshua was sick for almost an entire year when he started daycare
He's been much better so far this year, but he's about to start at a new centre so hopefully it won't happen all over again! |