How Often Does a Child Get Sick?

from blog Two-Wrongs, | ↗ original
Our first child was born mere weeks before covid​-19 came to our part of the world. As a result, they were effectively locked down for the first 1.5 years of their life until they started going to daycare. This had the effect that for those 1.5 years, they were not sick a single time. At some point they turned three, and in total, had been sick 22 times until then11 With an average duration of 4.4 days, meaning us...