To always stay at home or go abroad with DD1 because we keep getting ill

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DD is 18 months. Since October we have been constantly ill, and I am completely run down with it all. We’ve had colds, sinusitis, Scarlett fever, tonsillitis, chicken pox, norovirus, flu, the list feels endless.
I’m normally a positive and organised person but I feel so utterly miserable, snappy, lethargic, and feel overwhelmed with life.
I’m a SAHM and we go to either a playgroup or soft play or swimming each morning, something to get us out, and I’m sure this is where the bugs are coming from.
Today I mentioned to DH about us no longer going out and only doing things outside, just us, so we can’t catch bugs to have some respite from it all (we stayed home recovering from flu over Xmas and actually felt well for 8 days into the new year!) and he said it’s madness. There’s not much to do locally in the winter/not good for us socially.
So then I jokingly said “ok, we will go abroad for 2 months to sunnier climates”.
He went a bit moody then, and the conversation spiralled into me going back to work of which I said there’s no point as we have no family to help out and DD wouldn’t be able to go into childcare if she was always this poorly anyway.
In all honesty I don’t know if we could even afford me going away that long but I’m so utterly fed up. Can you tell?!
I honestly do not know what to do!

It is hard when they’re very young with the constant illnesses but it’s not like that forever. Their immune systems get stronger and they’re better able to fight things off. And this has been a particularly bad winter for viruses.
I have 3 children (9, 7 and 4) and it felt relentless in terms of illness when they were younger, but it’s not so bad now.
Hopefully next winter will be better for you all.

Oh and when we lived in Spain the children had just as many winter viruses as they do here!

You are in the worst bit of childhood illnesses. But all children go through this phase. Delaying your dd’s contact with others will just delay the period of time when you get struck down by lots of illnesses.

Don’t isolate yourself, you risk making yourself even more miserable.

Each bug will develop your dd’s immune system and she won’t get so many in the future. (Soft play is my exception though, my dd always got bugs from there when tiny so we just didn’t go).

Where in the world do they not have flu, Covid, norovirus, colds, sinus infection etc?