To think just keeping them alive is enough some days?

[Bouncingbelle]

Looking for a bit of reassurance really! Had rotten viral-type illness for a week now which is getting worse. Exhausted, nauseous, sore...the works. Feeling like worst mother in the world as DC have had pasta for dinner every night cos i cant face cooking anything else and FAR too much tv. Today me and the toddler had a 3 hour nap cos I needed it & he just went along with it. No help as DH works away. But im keeping them alive (and at nursery every morning for some stimulation!) So thats ok...isnt it?

On the plus side, discovered a new fave tv show for the toddler - hours and hours of previously unseen Kit & Pup. He's delighted!

...are we all just skipping over the part where OP said she got her toddler to go along with a 3-hour nap?! WHAT MAGIC IS THIS???

Yes, it is enough sometimes.
You can only do what your body will let you - and when you're sick, you're sick!

You're doing really well - hope you feel better soon

There is a sort of cold/ flu/ other odd thing doing the rounds at the moment. I've had it and a normal cold goes in a week or so this thing has taken almost five weeks to shake off:(

And made me feel exhaused at the same time .

Might be worth a quick call to the docs for a 2nd opinion;)

cheers..

.are we all just skipping over the part where OP said she got her toddler to go along with a 3-hour nap?! WHAT MAGIC IS THIS???

😂😂 I was wondering this

I'd say you're winning purely based on the fact that your toddler napped for 3 hours......i'm imagining what I could do with 3 whole hours, we're currently only averaging a 50 min nap once a day!

Sweetheart, you are ill and you kept little humans alive.

I am single, when ill I give myself crisps for breakfast and four billion hours of TV. Cannot imagine having to think of any small dependent creatures!!!

Give yourself a hug!! If I could, I would!! Give yourself a break and just get better in order to recommence the whole "raising humans" thing firing on cylinders 100,,% but one day at a time, eh!

Another one that thinks your a hero.

I had one time where I felt so ill I didn't think I'd get through the day and I was on my own with 4DC thankfully my ex husband turned up for once for the older 2 and on time,I looked so bad even he was worried about me but by some miracle my toddler and very young baby were little angles that day and spent the day snuggled up on the sofa with me watching disney movies.

ThankGod I was better 24 hours later.

You've not only kept them all alive and on your own you've cooked for them and worried about them having vegetables you've also done the nursery run,your doing a great job.I hope your feeling much better soon

But if i could just get 48 hours uninterupted time to just lie in bed & feel sorry fir myself, i thi k i'd get over it quicker!

^

Only another 18 years to wait.

Off topic a little, but I spoke with a bereaved parent recently who spelled out for me exactly how much pain ‘all fed, none dead’ and similar phrases cause her. I simply hadn’t considered how much anguish a flippant remark could create.

I’ve made a conscious effort not to use any phrase like that again- any one of us could be put in that situation and I’d much rather know that things I say won’t unintentionally devastate somebody who’s already going through a nightmare.

Thanks for that reminder managedmis can't take any credit for the 2 year old being a great sleeper - he's literally been like that since he was 6 weeks old!my favourite child was hoping to skip the nursery run this morning but they are up & wanting entertained so at least i can lie down for a few hours once i've done it :/

”me and the toddler had a 3 hour nap”
You are a wizard. Teach us.

@Puffkin 😂 here i was thinking i was dooming him to a lifetime of laziness & he was going to be 40 stone & stuck in an armchair cos i let him sleep all afternoon as a toddler when i wasn't well. Much prefer just putting him under a spell!