First-time dad suffering from man flu

Daddy T keeps complaining that Baby Girl and I must be bringing germs into our home. He’s previously been the type of guy who was never ill, and in the past four months he’s been down with flu-like symptoms three times.

According to him, it must be because Baby Girl and I go to various children’s play areas and bring home germs that make him unwell.

But he’s not passed on his man flu to us. We’ve stayed well every time. It’s not before this week when we’ve spent a week apart that I’ve had a sore throat.

I used to be the one who caught whatever was going around, but my immune system seems to have had a massive boost from the pressure to stay healthy to be well enough to look after a newborn.

For Daddy T, however, the arrival of Baby Girl has had the opposite effect. He looks slightly exhausted. I wonder how he’ll cope when he starts weekly baby swimming classes with Baby Girl in three weeks’ time. Let’s hope the children’s pool is germ-free.