What’s up with her?

[SnickerDoodledoo]

Happy Christmas Eve.

For the past few Christmas’ my daughter has become sick, not from a bug, it just comes on.

There’s no rhyme or reason to it, It’s like she has possible anxiety or could be overwhelmed.

She loves Christmas, has a really good time, loves the people she sees, but just becomes sick and it ruins her day.

She was sick tonight, had been feeling sick all day, went to her dad’s, nearly fainted and was then really sick.

I feel so sad for her. she’s worried it could be something bad..

Has this happened to anyone else’s child?

Thank you..

Is she over excited ? What does “ become sick” intend to indicate, specifically?

@Doliveira so, she’ll wake up as every child does, excited for Christmas. She’ll open her presents, have some breakfast, and then she starts to feel sick, then she’ll be sick

I’m not sure if it’s being over excited, or over whelmed. Maybe apprehensive, I don’t know.

Well if it happens on Christmas Day every year it’s obviously just a mix of nerves and excitement bubbling over. She doesn’t need to worry about it being ‘something bad’ as symptoms don’t just appear on the 25th and disappear otherwise.

Is the house stressful on Christmas? Is there a lot of people, noise, adults shouting to get stuff done? Is there an underlying tension or bad feelings between anyone?

@loropianalover it was the nearly fainting that made her worry.

With me it’s just us, (me and her) Christmas consists of opening presents and then having breakfast. No shouting, no tension. We’re not a shouty family.

She then goes to her Dad’s and that is when the sickness starts. But it’s hard to understand why on this occasion as she see’s her Dad at the weekend and is always fine.

She will open presents there, and then they go to her step mom’s parent’s home. She adores this part of Christmas as she really loves her step grandparents. They treat her like she was born into the family and they are nothing but lovely.

I knew a child once who got sick migraines triggered by anticipation/excitement - it was such a pity, as the only way to manage it was to keep every special occasion a surprise so the child didn't get sick and have to miss the occasion. Hard to do that with Christmas, though..

Are there any treat foods she has at Xmas that she doesn't have the rest of the year?

if you ever find out what it is let me know because I am the same

Sounds like anxiety/ nerves/ excitement to me. I can get like this, my mum stopped telling me we were doing things/ going places because I would get the feeling of wanting to be sick and then being sick. My own DD is also like this. We are also ND. Hopefully you can find some strategies to ease it x

Hello everyone.

Thank you so much for the replies, and sorry I’m only just replying myself.

So, in this instance, she had Norovirus. 🥺 she didn’t get to go to her Dad’s so spent Christmas asleep.

But after reading your replies, her past Christmas sickness is defo anxiety/anticipation/being nervous. She was also sick on her birthday a few years back which I believe was anxiety/anticipation. Poor lass.

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and new year. 🩷