Also I've noticed when I bring things up like "when I was younger we had to wash our hands and stay in our rooms a lot if we had a contagious illness" he'll respond with something like "maybe that's why you have a low immune system" meanwhile I have a low immune system because i'm pregnant! lol it's driving me nuts. My stepdaughter is almost ALWAYS sick with something, usually just a cold, but I can't help but feel like he's not taking it serious enough.

I believe it's whooping cough but the doctor can't see her until tomorrow. She is not up to date on vaccines. She is supposed to get a set of them including the one that protects against whooping cough between 4-6 yrs but she is almost 6 and hasn't had them. Her symptoms sound the exact same as whooping cough. Poor thing was up all night wheezing and can't coughing. At some points I was surprised she didn't throw up from coughing so hard.

I feel bad for her but I'm more worried about myself lol I'm trying to get ahold of my midwife to make sure it's not dangerous for me or the lil fetus !

She isn't updated on her shots because we've moved 2-3 times so we haven't had a stable family doctor. Plus the only shots she's missing are the 4-6 and she's 5 and a half so we still have some time. She was the doctor at the walk-in clinic and fortunately it's a chest infection of some sort. They gave her anti-biotics to help it go away!

Heavenlike-- My husband was very concerned, lol. It's not that he didn't care, he just has a very high immune system so he's never gotten anything like whooping cough or anything else but a minor cold. Whereas I've had all sorts of respitory problems so I recognized it as something more than a cough right away.

We would've taken her to the hospital but her mother has her healthcard and is slow giving it back, so it would've been a few hundred dollars vs. going to the walk-in clinic the next day for $40. He definitely was responsible. He slept beside her the night before we got to the clinic to watch her breathing/make sure it didn't get out of hand.

Let's not be so quick to assume... My only concern was NOT keeping her in her room, it was quarentining something potentially dangerous to a fetus until we could get her some medical attention. I don't think that's out of the ordinary considering the protective nature pregnant women tend to have over their unborn.

But thanks everyone so much for all the advice!!

Take your husband to your doctor and have them talk to him about the importance of protecting pregnant women and newborns from ALL viruses, including the common cold. A child's cold passed onto a newborn can actually be RSV - the symptoms don't present themselves as anything more than a common cold for children but can kill babies. When we were in the hospital with my newborn son (he had bacterial meningitis), I saw more than one baby come in with RSV and it was horrific. They were almost always sick because of older siblings with "colds."

I protected the ever-living HELL out of my newborn from any and all signs of sickness after being in the hospital and seeing babies suffering (including my own - but he didn't catch bacterial meningitis in a traditional sense). Our best practices are constant hand-washing, no touching toys outside of your own room, no laying on the couch, etc. - nothing ridiculous but enough to keep others from getting sick.

Ya, SD ends up in her room a lot when she's sick because she gets bored of not being able to do whatever she wants downstairs in the living room. She doesn't like having to pay attention to what she's touching/where she's putting her germs, but she's always welcome to come colour at the dining table or sit on the floor to watch cartoons.

When my son was around 4 months and caught a cold, we took him into the doctor and they actually recommended having big sister change clothes/shower when she gets home from school and not allowing her to touch his hands/face. RSV was going around at the time so they said to be very careful.