Alright, I'll see if I can explain as best I can.

I have had a little boy since April. I have a son of my own who is now almost 12 months. The dck is 14 months now. Since April, both boys have been sick on and off. There's been about 3 total weeks that my son hasn't been sick. Before this dck came, he had never been sick. My son developped a small cough, kind of flemy about 2 months ago and it's never really gone away. The dck also had this cough, and an EXTREMELY runny nose. Any time I asked the parents about it, they copped it up to teething (he got 4 molars in 2 months and is now getting his eye teeth). Last Friday, I called mom because the dck sounded REALLY bad. He had a bark like cough and flinched every time he coughed. The thing that got me was when he was crying. When he took a breath in, it sounded very hoarse - like he was losing his voice. But besides that, he was acting relatively normal. I told mom about this, and she didn't seem to think it was important. I told her that it sounded like croup to me, which is very contagious, and now that I have a full daycare, I don't want that in my care. She came to pick him up and then Monday showed up and told me she'd taken him to the dr and the dr had said it was due to teething. I have NEVER heard of a kid getting a cough like that from teething. Monday he was MISERABLE! But again, everyone thinks it's just teething. He coughed a few times on Monday, and it did sound pretty bad, but what could I do? Mom was refusing to admit that he was ill.

Well, yesterday morning, my son woke up with a barking cough. He has NEVER been this sick. He had a fever of 102, he was tired and miserable. He's not a cuddler, and all he did ALL day was sit with me and watch TV. NOT like him at all. It had me SO worried. I called all the dck's parents and told them and they all chose to keep their kids at home. I went to the dr and was told her had a chest infection - which I was warned about last time I went in about the cough. He'd said if he developped a fever, it would be a chest infection. So, we were given antibiotics and sent on our way. Last night, he started throwing up and during the night, I felt like he was having a hard time breathing. My husband ended up bringing him to the hospital and what do they tell him it is?? CROUP!!

When he told me that, I was SO mad I could barely contain myself. I KNOW that kid was sick, mom and dad REFUSED to admit it, and now my kid is ridiculously sick!! I know that mom and dad brought him to the dr, and maybe the dr did tell them it was nothing to worry about. But, I have caught them in a few lies in the past, and so I just don't know. I don't want to punish them for not knowing, but like SERIOUSLY! Mother's intiuition! You HAVE to know your kids is sick!! I knew her kid was sick.

So, i called them this morning and was like - so the hospital thinks it croup - i don't understand where he got it from..blah blah blah. They decided to keep their child at home!!

I don't know what to think or do!! What is your policies on coughing? What do you do when mom and dad wont admit their kids sick?? Like, if I'd refused care to this little boy due to his cough, he would have been gone since May!! lol

I don't know what to do. But you know how we are when it comes to our kids. I'm going all mama bear and I'm really feeling quite resentful.

HELP!!!