Parents who are nervous about having a five or six year old child when Swine Flu is on the rise could probably safely quadruple their feelings of fear and anxiety to understand how parents of babies under six months of age feel.
A new mom with a three month old child and two school age children probably summed it up best when she said, “I think it is very scary. I’m afraid to go outside.”
 
So what do new moms do to keep their babies safe?
* Screen friends. Ask the neighborhood kids if they feel sick before they come in to avoid …read more

I have been in contact with Valerie Post’s mother-in-law, Bonnie Jones, who has been keeping me informed on what’s going on. For those that may not remember Valerie went to the doctor after having back aches and they wouldn’t go away, she found out that she actually had the swine flu and they would have to have a c-section two months early. During the c-section they had to put Valerie into a medically induced coma in order to save her life.
Valerie has never met her newborn daughter, Norah, instead family has been taking care of her and big sister Trinity as …read more

Valerie Post, a 24-year-old mom that just gave birth via c-sections currently in a coma.  Some sites are stating she is in a medically induced coma while others are stating it happened immediately during delivery, so I’m stating both until it is confirmed. Valerie gave birth two months early after experiencing a sore throat, backache with a fever. But when it wouldn’t go away they went immediately to the hospital, thinking it was just a false alarm. It wasn’t, the doctor quickly figured out she had the Swine Flu, aka H1N1.
The baby was in distress and they immediately did a …read more

A newborn baby is fighting for its life at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley when it was born 3 months early because mom came down
with the swine flu. The baby is not suffering from the flu but being born too early. The mother is critically ill and no updated news has been released, the baby is being cared for in the intensive care unit. Hopefully we’ll hear good news in this case soon. Congrats to the new mom and dad, may your baby gain weight quickly.
Also in the swine flu news, a 14 month old baby is being treated …read more

That’s right, just when you thought the swine flu (H1N1) was over it strikes again, this time in a baby. This makes the third infant death due to the swine flu. The baby was only 11 weeks old and suffering from flu-like symptoms when they laid him down for a nap. When the parents went to check on him a little while later he appeared to be unconscious and was immediately taken to the hospital, but was pronounced dead there.  Nothing has been determined just yet as the medical examiner hasn’t come back with a definite.  The baby’s name is …read more

The second baby has died from what is believed to be the swine flu, err H1N1 disease. This is the same flu that a baby boy in Texas died from at the beginning of the announcement. Before this second baby passed away there had been an announcement that there had been 6 deaths in America, the sixth one happened to be an assistant principal, Mitchell Weiner, in New York
Many people are starting to think, “it’s not going to happen to my family” or “it’s not a big thing.” But now it’s starting to make me think twice, currently we don’t …read more

The first official death has hit the United States when it comes to the Swine Flu and it was a baby boy from Texas. Currently there are 66 cases of those infected with the swine flu in the United States, 45 in New York, 11 in California, six in Texas, two in Kansas and one each in Indiana and Ohio. They do believe there are more, in fact they have already confirmed a few of those were children in New York and over 100 kids were sick earlier this week and are now thinking it could be related. Hopefully it …read more