I shouldn’t have been so smug…

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About three hours ago I was lying in bed, in lovely expensive linen, in a lovely holiday cottage, on the first night of our UK minibreak. I was listening to a storm, DH and DCs were asleep, smallest DC was happily asleep in the travel cot (usually sleeps in our bed at home), everyone had gone to bed early and I’d had a lovely bath on my own… I honestly thought I was in heaven. I was so happy.

Fast forward to 1am and the baby has vomited all over the travel cot, we’ve had to use several of the cottage’s pristine white towels to clean her up, the vomity mess (including cot mattress - which belongs to the rental) has all been hastily shoved in the bath, and now I am having to snuggle a sicky baby, on top of a scratchy towel.

I should not have been so delighted with everything earlier

So pleased she's better and you got some more sleep!

You have reminded me of The Crete Holiday of which we do not speak. DS1 started vomiting within 3 hours of arrival. Followed, overnight, but DH and DS2. We only had one bucket, so DS2 was sick between the twin beds. Tiled floors at least, but NO HOT WATER unless I boiled it on the stove. Over the week, as they recovered, DD and I succumbed. The only person who didn't catch is was DS3, who I conclude was immune due to all the germs at preschool.

We recovered enough to fly home.

...came back to bed for a couple of hours whilst DH did the parenting

It was all so believable up until that comment

Seriously though - glad that your DD feels better and that you have had some rest.

Oh I thought of another one. I went to visit my parents (different country and they still live where I was brought up). I had DS1 aged about 3 and DS2 aged about 12 months. I had to fly. DS2 got a vomiting bug the night we arrived. We stayed in a hotel that night because my family home was a few hours drive away from the airport. He vomited all night. It was NOT helped by my mother deciding when I was in the shower to give him apple slices during a pause in the vomiting which just triggered more vomiting. Anyway, we got in the car for the drive home. Ds2 was vomting so much that i had run out of cloths and bags and had started catching the vomit in my hands. Finally the DCs fell asleep. I had just got back from a roadside loo having cleaned myself up and settled back in the seat exhausted when my mother piped up cheerfully 'Oh I think now would be a great time to call Auntie Marge to tell her you have arrived!'

No. It was NOT a good time.

Oh bless, I hope baby improves soon, if dehydrated (babies deteriorate fast) get some diarolyte and syringe a few ml in her mouth every few minutes.

We were once at a veryyyy fancy hotel in the Caribbean once and suddenly DD2 threw up in a plant pot containing a massive palm tree right at the entrance
I was mortified

When DS was 6 we had a mini trip to London, just me and him. He developed a stomach ache on the way there, and threw up for the first time within minutes of checking in to our AirBnB. I put him in the big bed as I was scared he would fall out of the little one.

Spent a sleepless night dealing with a swimming pool's worth of puke, and finally snatched an hour in the vacated big bed after he got up to watch cartoons. I was so tired I didn't realise there was an undiscovered puddle of sick (with chunks) on the pillow, till I woke up with my face in it.

Driving in a camper van with three kids, baby DS3 moaning, grumbling. I stopped in a lay by and husband, who was in the back with the kids, lifted baby out of the car seat who promptly vomited all down his trousers and into his shoes that he had taken off. There followed a very funny moment where he removed his trousers just outside the sliding side door and three goats faces appeared over a stone wall with a shocked expression on their faces🐐😱 We had booked a static caravan, the children's bedroom was one of those with two single beds with a third bunk across the top of both. DS1 chose the middle of the night to vomit, it covered all three lots of bedding, even splattered the walls, spent the whole of next day at the launderette 🤦