Refusing contact when baby unwell
My little one (22 months old) is due to go to his dad's for his second ever sleepover tomorrow night. There is a court order for every 2nd Friday. However, he is having an additional overnight next week as his Xmas contact.
Anyway, LO is poorly, has been teething past week, so on regular baby ibuprofen and paracetamol for that. His bum is also very sore. But since yesterday, he's been coughing a lot to the point that lying down to sleep isn't easy and has a runny nose and sneezing lots. He also has no appetite but is drinking plenty..
Poor boy đź’™
My question is, should I be keeping him home? He already found the first sleepover very stressful, as seen in his behaviours on the day I got him back and the days that followed. Is the fact that he is unwell a reasonable reason to keep him from going this time round? Does anyone have any experience of this, please?
I'm in Scotland.
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@Sydney thank you. Part of me thinks, I could do with a night of uninterrupted sleep so he should still go. But the other part of me thinks that letting him go will be even more traumatic for him given he is not feeling well and so would that then not be in the best interests of the child? Must add he's only been seeing his dad once a week on a Saturday since July this year building up from 2hours to 6 hours per week. And we've only just jumped to the fortnightly overnight, 2 weeks ago. So it's all very new for LO. X
Honestly it’s so hard as I don’t know who the dad would be. Ide definitely ask for legal advice
My own experience My boy was sick. Was throwing up, teething, had diarrhoea and wouldn’t eat anything so was just having breast milk (never took bottles). I stopped him going to a court ordered visit as he was too poorly. However was told that if the child isn’t throwing up they can still go to the other parents house. If you can I would call legal advice and see what they think. As teething, colds and such things are seen as not extreme enough to not allow contact