How do people manage this - work, ill children

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This seems to be worse now I'm on my 2nd child, as it just seems there is more to juggle.
Nursery fees are £81 a day, both me and DH work full time, we can't take annual leave and our holidays are fixed.
Currently the total childcare costs are meaning that we are finding things very tight.

Baby is poorly today so I'm off. I think today is paid, for which I am grateful, but tomorrow would be unpaid. But of course the nursery still needs paying. I'm starting to panic about what this would do financially if we had to take a lot of days for illnesses.

What do people do? Or just grit teeth and bear it for the next couple of years. Good multivitamins?

Oh I see you are a teacher. It's great in some ways but terrible in others. It's going to be hard handling illness but good when it comes to finding something for the kids to do during the long summer holidays.

I think the only thing for you is seeing if your DH can find a more flexible role. Even it won't solve the immediate issue with illness. But as others say, once they are 6 or 7, they will start to be quiet when they are ill. It makes a flexible WFH role so much more valuable.