Has any child ever come down with a sickness bug in the daytime?!

[PurplePepperEater]

In all my years of being a parent and many many sickness bugs, every single one of them has started or just solely happened in the middle of the night - so you’re wandering around in a half asleep state trying to console and clean up a child, you have to strip beds and find clean blankets etc all whilst not waking the rest of the house up

While I was doing this at 4am today I was thinking - why?! Why can’t they just throw up on the kitchen floor a couple of times at 2pm and then sleep in a lovely clean bed and I can clean it up and that be it?!

Why always the middle of the night?! 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄

Maybe that’s when the body shuts down and relaxed enough to let the sickness take root.

I was wondering that this morning too.

It was 4pm for me this Saturday but then continued until 4am!

My eldest has started sickness bugs in the afternoon which I'm mercifully grateful for. We're both awake enough to do damage limitation.

My youngest is a middle of the night starter though, and because she's scared of the dark won't leave her bedroom to seek help which results in a massive clean up operation when I'm in a zombie like state. She now permanently has a bucket in her room just in case so we can at least limit how much of her bedroom she ruins.

My youngest threw up all over the classroom mid morning at school. It wasn't his finest hour.
His sister was always a bedtime vomiter, exorcist style checker upper.

I'm so glad I no longer have small children.