In refusing to look after dh's niece for a couple of hours?

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We are all ill, with the flu. The REAL flu.

MIL is babysitting my dh's niece, who is also ill with vomiting.

MIL just phoned to ask if we could look after the niece, because the niece and my dd love playing with each other.

My dd has just vomited. We all have high temperatures.

I said this to my mil, who said that doesn't matter as dh's niece is also ill.

But not necessarily with the same virus I tried to explain, in which case we will just all pass even more bugs onto each other. This fell on deaf ears.

If it was absolutely necessary, I would babysit. But it's not necessary.

And now I have pissed off my mil.

Stick to your guns, The last thing that you need when you are feeling ill is somebody elses child.

Sod the mil!!

No you are not - notthing worse than having to entertain someone else's child when you are ill/your children are ill. Even if the neice was well I would have said no.

Yes but I still feel guilty because mil helps us out sometimes.

oh good so one more ill child for you to look after tell her NO I AM ILL !!!!

no , not at all!!! the last thing you need when you are ill is more noise, more children, more responsibility, should MIL not look after all the kids so you can rest.

If there was no other solution, then we would babysit. But it's not necessary, there's no reason for us to babysit. I don't really understand why she asked us.

I'm sure my sil wouldn't be happy if we gave her dd the flu.

Lulumama - I don't want my mil babysitting my dds as well as the ill niece, in case they have different viruses and exchange them with each other, meaning yet more days of illness.

I also think it a bit cheeky to ask mil to babysit my ill kids as well as the ill niece, whi she has to babysit, because both her parents are working.