To think that 3 episodes of sickness in 7 months is excessive?!

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Me and ds (2) are at home again today as he has yet again been sick.

He was sick water yesterday am and absolutely fine the rest of the day. Fine when I dropped him off at nursery this morning but sick almost immediately after I left. Can't go back to nursery until Thursday now.

Same situation in jan, sick then fine for 24 hours then sick again. Exactly same again in May.

Aibu to think this is far too often for your average 2yo?!

Nobody else is getting sick.

I have been sick myself about 3 weeks ago but again nobody else came down with it.

I'm baffled, feel sorry for ds and am sick of paying for a nursery place he can't use and not being able to work!

I think it’s fairly normal for kids at nursery to get sick often. I found that my daughter seemed to have a bug every other month, she’s rarely sick now though, once every couple of years maybe?!

At his age it doesn't sound excessive; their first year or so at nursery seems to be a bit of a sickly one with lots of coughs, colds and bugs as their immune systems are overwhelmed with potential bugs from the many different children/adults they're in contact with. Obviously practice good personal hygiene with him and speak to nursery and the GP if you're very concerned, but it doesn't sound that unusual.

DS1 has never had a sickness bug (he's 12 now) but picked up every cough and cold going during his first year at nursery. I used to just think perhaps I had a defective child til DS2 came along and history repeated itself.

Nope, quite normal

Oh no I almost wanted you all to say no it's weird get him to a doctor and they'll cure it.

He's been at nursery since 9 months and last year was not bad he had some colds but only sick once in a whole year. He's in the 2 plus room now with more kids so maybe that's it.

I'm considering requesting working from home when I go back to work so if this happens again at least I'm being useful!

Poor thing. He seems fine now. No temp asking for chocolate and singing. Same yesterday too.

Fingers crossed he's fine today and tomorrow and can go back Thursday!

Pretty normal. Possibly a good idea to speak to the nursery about hand washing (before eating) and start teaching him to wash hands before he eats and not put hands or other objects in his mouth etc (possibly a bit early but best to get that habit sorted before school starts).

I had my kids in two different nurseries and two different primaries as there is an age gap and we moved. One nursery and one school had much lower general rates of sickness generally - and that was entirely down to cleanliness and stricter 48 hour rules for vomiting and diarrhoea plus teachers asking children to wash hands properly before lunch (in the first school I saw them 'wash' hands with no soap and a little wave of dirty hands under the water which is just wet germs! DS2's current school and teacher teaches them how and why to wash hand properly and the rates of disease transmission are much lower).

Pre school children get 6-10 viruses per year on average. You are doing well

If your nursery doesn’t have a 48 hour rule after sickness, which I guess it doesn’t if he was sick yesterday morning and you dropped him off this morning after 24 hours it will spread bugs much worse - your DS being sick there this morning could well have now passed that bug on to the rest of the toddler room. Toddlers move around much more and are in closer contact than the babies.
I’d talk to the nursery about their sickness policy, try to get it raised to 48 hours after last vomiting/loose nappy and being really vocal with parents about how important it is and it might stop the number of sickness bugs circulating.
Coughs and colds you can’t do much about but we are on average 2-3 sickness bugs a year so far and he’s nearly 2.

Was normal for my two. Infact mine probably picked up more bugs at a similar age. It lasted till reception and then dramatically decreased.

Does he seem anxious about going to nursery? One of mine was and hated it when he got there. Occasionally he would work himself up into a state and vomit.
If there is no sign of anxiety then it's probably just the normal nursery illnesses. When you put a load of kids in a room together you get germ soup and they all take home each other's illnesses.

If he can't go back till Thursday then I'm assuming they have a 48 hr rule which you didn't stick to from yesterday? Apologies if I've read that wrong.
If that's the case people doing that really don't help as they pass it on!

Perfectly normal for that age group at nursery. Look on the bright side, OP - your DC will start reception with a much better immune system than kids who don't mingle till they are 4+. Those kids just get a good dose of everything going once they start at school.

DS was always catching stuff at nursery and would periodically vomit for no apparent reason and be otherwise fine. He is now 8 and is very rarely ill.

Completely normal. TBH this is part of the reason I was keen to put DD in nursery instead of waiting for her just to start school. In DD's class, most of the children who didn't go to nursery, spent the first year or so, being up & down with various bugs.

The first year at nursery was hell for us. DS was constantly ill. The hand, foot and mouth, flu / ear infection / norovirus one after the other nearly broke us. No one warned me how bad it would be. It has varied since then but we have had a least three episodes of sickness /temp / ear infection in the last two months, so can happen

My 2 year old has had a rotten 18 months with vomiting bugs. She's currently on my lap having thrown up since 2am this morning. I think some kids are just more prone to it, as my eldest had a cast iron constitution.

Their rule usually is 48 hours however because he was just sick water and not again they let him go back today (obviouslu not the best idea but he was oyherwise absolutely fine!) They are enforcing the 48 hour rule now so he can't do back until Thursday am.

He's definitely not nervous about nursery he loves it. He's been asking to go back!

Just odd that he wants to eat and isn't being sick often.

You were wrong to send him today if he was sick yesterday. Kids at nursery are sick a lot because people ignore the rules, which exist for a reason. He'll have passed the virus to the other kids in the room now no doubt.

I don’t think it’s excessive for a child that age, quite normal in fact. Around that age my son had around 7 months of one thing after another: a horrible flu-like illness with viral rash, strep throat, ear infections a sickness bug and bouts of cold in between.

It’s horrible for them, but apart from a nose that never stops running he hasn’t been ill for ages.

I so sympathise. However I am a home worker (with visits out to clients half the time) working for a FTSE company. Thinking you can work at home whilst looking after a sick child is something we are not able to do easily. It was spoilt many years ago by two women who decided to 'work from home' as opposed to paying for childcare.

They were a nightmare to work with. Wouldn't accept calls when they were getting the children ready, going to the park (for a quick run!) shopping in the supermarket (because they were on their lunchbreak etc).

If they did do some work they were clearly distracted and you could hear the kids in the background.

I know child care is a shocking price and that children get sick but please don't be one of 'those' mothers.

Eventually instead of being pulled up on it ALL of us were sent a letter - even people without children reminding us of our work responsibilities.

I didn't ignore the rules. It was nursery who said he could go back. I wouldn't have taken him back today if they'd not said I could. He seemed fine in himself too and again if he didn't I wouldn't take him.

I'm not going to become one of "those" mother's but I do my job every day and I know what it entails and I could easily be doing it right now because ds is quietly playing. Not all jobs are the same but for what 10 days a year I'd rather be useful at home than doing nothing.

They do get a lot of bugs when they're little - especially if they go to nursery.

However, if you think there may be something, you could keep a food diary to see if there might be something he's intolerant to.