Would you send your child to nursery...

[Emlou07]

My eldest hasn't been for 2 weeks as she's had a very nasty cold (she was prem with resp distress, so gets things quite bad)

She's not 100% better, but doesn't have a temp and doesn't need calpol, so in nursery rules, she's good to go in.

I've just had a email to say that they'd had V&D at their site and slapped cheek at their sister nursery, which staff go between..

Usually I'd take the chance and so far she's been fine.

But with her still being a bit sniffly, would you take the risk this close to 'the holidays'?

Do you send your little ones if nursery have confirmed cases of something?

Just to add - She's 4, I'm a sahm so won't miss work etc

The holidays are 4 weeks away. If she's well enough to go I'd send her, you can catch illnesses anywhere.

Given that’s she’s been off for 2 weeks poorly and isn’t completely better I would keep her off personally. Hope she’s soon on the mend.

If the D&V outbreak is severe enough to warrant an email, if give it a swerve. Although I'm an emetophobe.

I’d keep her off if you’re a sahm. Last thing you want is a vomiting bug.

Ds is at nursery today still not 100% although has had three clear days between last fever and him going so that staff say he’s fine. I feel horribly guilty about it but work are bastards and I’m covering three peoples jobs so I don’t have the choice.

Keep her off and give her a cuddle

The holidays are irrelevant really since they're weeks away

But I would assume the D&V must be fairly prolific for them to have emailed so I would probably keep her home since you're s SAHP so do have the choice, and she's not fully recovered from her last bout of illness

I wouldn't send her in if the dV was a big problem.

Yabu to call it V&D, it’s D&V.

But I’d keep her off with this going around, not because of the end of her cold virus.

Keep her off till after the holidays.

There's been a vomiting flu-type bug going round near me and tbh it's been fairly merciless and difficult to avoid. Dd started perking up after two weeks....

Unhelpfully I'm not sure. Maybe give her a bit longer to regain a bit of strength but I think it's a losing battle against some of the bugs that go round.

I would send her
I see no reason not to

No harm being done if she doesn't attend. You're not missing work, she's not under obligation to attend (I'm sure nursery would have been in contact if attendance was already affecting a funded position). A few days to get more resilience up could make a positive difference to her.

Random thought why do we call its d and v when the v in most cases comes before the d 🤔

I would keep her off until 100 percent if we had had an email.