To take ill toddler to school

In all honesty your older child probably already had it and is going to spread it around all the kids in his class anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️

So you've just decided the toddler isn't poorly...

Having more than one child unfortunately means sometimes one misses out. It's really unfair to be portraying this as the OP not thinking her other child is important to her.

Vomiting definitely no…spread through school a few years ago in the week before christmas, was awful. Some responsible enough to keep kids off, others sent kids in clearly unwell, still vomiting and then refused to answer the phone when called to pick them up. Absolutely awful!

Really? Which part of you truly believes a school would say yes please do bring your vomiting toddler into our school hall full of children. Honestly.

It would be extremely selfish. Imagine she throws up in the hall. That's a lot of families you've potentially spread it to, and some poor caretaker who'll be cleaning it up off the floor as well.

If she hasn’t been sick again I’d go. There has been a few occasions where my toddler has been sick just once and then fine the rest of the day

People thinking that if you're just sick once you don't have a bug is probably how most of them are spread because parents think "well keeping them off school is inconvenient to me, and it was only once..".
They've done studies where they've deliberately infected people with norovirus, and I think it was a third of people who developed symptoms only vomited once.

Tiz the Mumsnet way, everyone has to be argumentative or it's boring 🤣 honestly OP tell him you were there, even I'd you weren't. He'll never know.

This

At the end of the day, OP has a choice. She can stay home with her not poorly toddler and let her son know he's not that important to her, or she can go. I know what I'd do

Rather than sniping at the OP, why not offer practical advice?

What's to be gained by snapping at everyone when they ask a question?

That’s why is said why risk it. You won’t know for sure but the toddler has been sick a few hours ago. There’s obviously a reason for it and there was no mention of over eating/ eating something they didn’t agree with her in the OP.

A one off can still be a bug; we’ve had it in our house where one child was sick once but then their sibling caught it and was sick non stop for days. Everyone reacts differently.

All we know is she had been sick once when the OP posted. A mere hour after she had been sick...

Let's be realistic here a child throwing up at 3am is very unlikely to be doing so for any other reason than because they are unwell.

Regardless we all know you can throw up once and still be unwell and given theres no way of ruling out if it's a bug or not the sensible thing to do is treat it as one don't you think?

@Netflixconundrum but where's the evidence that she is? People get poorly, it wouldn't mean this child is to blame. If the child is fine within herself there's no reason not to go

Risk infecting the whole hall…she could be coming down with something even if not a sickness bug (it also could be sickness bug even if sick once).

You really can’t take her sorry. And just because a child is sick once it doesn’t mean that the people who catch it from them will be the same - we’ve had it in our house where one has been sick once and the sibling who caught it from them has been sick non stop for days. You really can’t inflict this on families this close to Christmas (or at any time!).

Rubbish timing but please don't take her in.
We had DS nativity earlier this week and the hall was packed.
I would not have been happy if a vomiting toddler was there. It's not fair on everyone who's there. They don't want to be sick over Christmas.
See if someone can get photos of your DS and buy him a treat for after school.

@Netflixconundrum risk what? It'll be obvious by this morning if it's a bug or just a one off.

Why risk it?

If she vomited, you need to keep her home. Terrible to send her in, as she will spread it to more kids. I hate parents that do this. It sucks that you will have to miss the nativity....but these things happen and even worse your dd goes to nursery spreads the bug around and then others have to miss celebrating Christmas with family

I didn’t say she had… I was talking about the other poster who suggested the other mum was amazing for taking her poorly child out in the rain to watch the nativity.

@GrumpyCactus but you're ignoring that being sick once ≠ a virus.

If she's just been sick once, and not again, no runny stomach, it's very unlikely she's got a bug.

And this attitude is why sickness bugs get passed around so frequently.

Yes the other child might get it but equally they might not. The fact is the op knows her youngest has been sick and using the nonsensical logic that their sibling might also get sick to justify taking a poorly child to watch the play is both ridiculous and selfish.

Can you get another parent to take photos?

Phone school office about your situation and ask if staff can take his photo for you❤️ hope your wee one feels better soon.

you Have to keep her home for 48 hours after her last symptom of diarrhoea or vomiting. My daughter has had two D&V bugs from nursery from parents like you who take their kids in anyway.

I can’t believe you’re even asking.

@Netflixconundrum I'm asking where OP has said this about her child.

At the end of the day, being sick once doesn't mean you're a carrier of every virus under the sun. And if she does have noro, it's likely the older kid has it too and will be spreading it all around school anyway. She should just go to the nativity.