to say nurseries are the invention of the devil!!!

[AnneofGreenFables]

Aha!!! Bet you thought this would be yet another SAHM vs WOHM bun-fight, didn't you? Didn't you?!!

Before we commence throwing buns, my post is purely in relation to them being a haven of colds unlike any other known to man!!! People told me children pick up lots of colds when they start nursery and/ or school but damn it I didn't believe them!!!

I'm on day 5 of yet another cold which has now subsided to become a delightful phlegm-ridden cough (sorry if TMI), and I've had enough!!

I don't know what the answer is (sheep-dipping all small children in disinfectant maybe? - Joke!), but I hate being ill!!!!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Right, rant over. Please continue bun throwing as long as they're of the Belgian or cream-filled variety (although even then I wouldn't be able to taste them!)

I should have prefaced the above by saying this is a light-hearted thread, I'm well aware there are many more serious problems in the world

It'll stop after a year or so IME soon.

YABU, other places harbour germs ahem

-soft play centres
-supermarkets
-swimming pools
-parks
-creches
-other peoples houses

erm and other places do to so ner :P

Have you not caught nits yet? . Hope you feel better soon.

I agree with you, DS was hardly ever ill before he started nursery, and since then its been one illness after the other. Right now we've all got delightful coughs.

Wouldn't take him out of it though, whats a few hundred measly coughs and colds when he is so damn happy and doing really well at nursery :)

It really is horrendous isn't it?! It does go on for bloody ages I'm afraid to say!

We've had constant snot for the last 9 months. When DD is ill, it's green and milky l, when she's not ill, it's clear and watery. But it's always there. There you go snot, have a !

I know what you mean. Ds started 4 months ago and he seemed to have either a cold, tummy bug, conjunctivitis every weekend. It was that bad I almost took him out. After being vomited on 4 weekends in row (several times each day) I was fed up. He has been better market though. Its annoying because he would just back to normal self and then it would Thursday and then he would be I'll again that night.

Wait until you experience the joy of treating threadworms.

Damn it!!!! I can't even lounge about in bed watching pride and prejudice important documentaries and indulging them anymore (at the weekend obviously!!), I have to get up and argue about why teddy can't go in the bath and why we can't pour cereal into the cat's food

I was bloody ill last weekend, all that glorious sun and I was sneezing every 30 seconds.

Can't believe it's going to continue!!! Someone quick, lie to me. Tell me it stops after the first 18 months

Oh, the never-ending conjunctivitis....happy days. not really

Conjunctivitis!!!! Are you fucking kidding??!!!!! I thought colds were as bad as it was going to get

I had nits twice as a child and once as an adult (was a teaching assistant in a school as a student so I use the term adult loosely!). Thought with a DS as opposed to a DD I might side-step most nit-related incidents.

I'm living in a dream world aren't I?

Quick, someone throw a bun, I need the sugar rush!! Or even better a (does that affect cough medicine?)

We have had bloody months of continuous colds in this house and still no let up. fed up always being covered in snot.

What about worms? I'm still waiting for my first infestation.

We have had a legion of colds, conjunctivitis, gastroenteritis, Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, chickenpox - but not nits yet. I have found myself inspecting his tiny bottom for worms at night with a torch, while he slept, but he seemed to escape those. Very glam, being a mummy, isn't it?

I was gazing fondly up dd's nose the other day and saw two empty nostrils, and thought, now there's a sight I seldom see.

This is a side of motherhood that should be more publicised!!!!! Bright red warnings on the delivery ward (admittedly it might be a bit late by then)

What are those scientists doing with their time? Find a cure for my cold!!!!!!!

DS started nursery on monday (9mo). i've been with him to help him settle and iive caught something alreaady. I'm dyinng in bed at the mo :( luckily breastfeeding anti bodies have stopped ds getting it!!

Bloody customers are the work of the devil.

If I ever catch that idiot who said "The customer is always right" I will spork him to death.

Customers are sometimes right, sometimes wrong, frequently bonkers, and occasionally would benefit from a good slap.

well, there is good news.... Once your child actually gets to school they will have had a head start in the imunity stakes!

Is that slightly off topic queen? Anyway, I agree with that too!! Had to get out of a customer-facing role because I refused to accept that 'the customer is always right' and I'm a grumpy cow

Ah, lardylump, will he? Will he? Or will there just be another host of previously unencountered germs to contend with.

If I ever catch a germ I will give it the talking-to of it's life!!!!

Have you tried Potters Pastilles for the cough?

its life

damn cold making my apostrophes dance about all over the place