Question about sick kids, slightly OT
I have a question for those of you that have bio's and/or skids full time. A few posts ago (10/4/13) I vented about being worried about Ss bm sending Ss5 over to our house sick. Welllll, it's been almost 2 months and Ss is still sick. Not deathly ill or anything but still has a lingering cough/sniffles. When Ss comes over we'll give him cough medicine and I'll rub him down with vicks and he seems to be getting better by the time sunday comes but then when we get him on friday the following week (we have him every fri-sun) it's like the cough/sniffles are worse again. I'm a first time mom... kinda.. I mean, I'm due in 2 weeks and I wasn't really around small children before dating Dh so I don't really have experience with this and I'm just wondering if this is normal for a cold to linger this long? I've asked Ss if his mom gives him medicine or anything like that and he says no so I'm just curious if she's just ignoring that fact that he's been ill or if it's normal for kids to stay sick this long. Just wanting some opinions from some veteran parents out there. 
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2 months is a bit long. He
2 months is a bit long. He may have a sinus infection that he needs antibiotics for. My Dr has a 4 week rule. If the sniffles and cough last longer than that, take them in.
**This will be different when you have a child under 1 though, they want to see them after 2 weeks of sniffles and runny noses!
I see. Thank you for the
I see. Thank you for the insight, I'll let Dh know this and maybe he can make the call to take him in. I just find it strange that it's been this long and I feel bad for the kid.
Thank you also for the info about small children, I'll definately need to know that for when my Dd arrives.
Is BM's house dirty and
Is BM's house dirty and probably filled with germs? My SS7 goes through this every winter. I personally think he has a touch of allergies that should be addressed in the Fall but not my kid so what I think doesn't matter. BM doesn't clean much and SS7 and his little sister and brother are always dealing with runny noses, coughs, and sniffles because they are constantly passing the same things back and forth to each other. Not much you can do but have DH take him to the doc (he probably needs antibiotics) and share what you learn with BM. Maybe someday she will listen.
Well Ss didn't seem to get
Well Ss didn't seem to get sick that often when Bm and him were primarily staying with Bm's mom. Bm is a nasty person but her mom/stepdad are very clean/normal people. Bm and Ss have been staying at bm's boyfriends house a lot and Ss recently told Dh that Bm's Boyfriend has a one bedroom and Bm and Bf sleep on the bed and Ss has a mattress on the floor and the apartment that the boyfriend lives in is in an area of town they call the war zone because it's primarily very low income/druggie people. Bm's boyfriend doesn't appear to be a druggie but he is definately low income and I think that's why he stays in that area, what i'm getting at though is the place is probably very dirty.
Thankfully Bm switched to
Thankfully Bm switched to e-cigs so she still smokes around Ss but at least it's not tobacco. We used to pick Ss up and he smelled like someone hotboxed him with cigarettes... which is actually not far from the truth as Bm would drive around with the windows up puffing away w/ Ss in the back seat.
I think I'm going to get on
I think I'm going to get on Dh about this issue. I didn't realize how long Ss had been sick until I was looking thru my posts and seen that I had initially posted that he had gotten sick almost 2 months ago. I bought some lysol this last time we dropped him off and went over everything in the house. I'm so paranoid about this baby being born and possibly catching something. I'm thinking that wiping everything down is going to become routine in my house. I dont know why I hadn't really thought about it before. Thank you for the idea!