How do you get a toddler or young child to get lots of rest while sick?

Please settle an argument. My husband thinks it's not ok to nurse when i have a stomach virus, that I might pass it to my son who so far seems healthy. I disagree. The boy is 8 mon …

My 10.5 month-old had a cold last week, just started walking, and may be teething again (ie there's a lot going on in his world). When he got the cold last week, he started refusin …

Our son is nearly 11 months old and has picked up a few bugs in that time, and also passed them on to us. But I've always been able to shrug things off in a day or two without seri …

I work part-time and my husband works full-time so our baby is usually in daycare a couple of hours every day. However, we are still struggling to figure out what to do when our b …

When my daughter (4 years old, now) gets congested from a cold, she sometimes ends up with an ear infection. But she never complains about her ears bothering her until it gets real …

My daughter is normally a good sleeper but she is sick. She keeps waking up every 20 minutes. We go in and hug her and try to settle her down and put her back down. But every 20 …

So I'm sick. My wife is sick. Some of our kids are sick as well. It's not easy taking care of kids when you're sick, nevermind taking care of sick kids while both parents are il …

I'm curious as to who here has intentionally infected their child with something for the sake of immunity -- especially chicken pox or flu. How common is this? Did you wait until a …

When my children get fevers I usually go straight for the Tylenol and continue the doses until their fevers are gone. My friend recently told me that she thought giving her son Ty …

My friend's son had flu like symptoms last week. She has invited us over to her house to play this week. I DO NOT want my kids to get the flu too! When is it safe to resume our p …

My wife is in the first few weeks of pregnancy. She has not been well and has been signed off work to recover. We work at the same company and my colleagues have been asking after …