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AIBU?

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Original poster

To have sent my kid to school this morning

153 replies

DinoSand · 05/10/2023 08:53

Got the guilt. DD is 4. Just started reception. Was just settling into school routine

Sunday night: vomited x 2
Monday: unwell on sofa. No sick
Tuesday: seemed much better but then a little bit sick again at 6pm after dinner.
Wednesday: absolutely fine, jumping off walls, eating all day.
Thursday (today): ate huge breakfast. Fine. Sent to school

I haven't stuck to the 48 hour rule as that would be 6pm today.

AIBU?

OP posts:
Goodgrief83 · 05/10/2023 08:54

Well it’s too late now in any event
unless if anonymous posters tell you that you are bing unreasonable and you’ll collect her from school?!
so I’d stop navel gazing about it

tennine · 05/10/2023 08:55

You ABU just for the sheer goady thread.

OnAir · 05/10/2023 08:56

Spread that stuff around why not... everyone loves a bit of sickness and diarrhoea. Sharing is caring after all...

PreetyinPurple · 05/10/2023 08:56

Personally I think if they eat and keep it down for a whole day that’s fine for me.
48 hours is just a random time. He’s had 2 full nights being sick free.

Overthebow · 05/10/2023 08:56

You know YABU.

Topseyt123 · 05/10/2023 08:57

I used to do the same. Once they were fine then it was straight back to school. I gave the 48 hour rule no headspace.

Huge breakfast and bouncing off the walls is fine for school.

TiredMamOfTwo · 05/10/2023 08:57

YABU. A sickness bug would put my kid in hospital.

Hate people like yourself, unbelievably selfish.

Goodgrief83 · 05/10/2023 08:58

No wonder you name changed just to start this thread OP

so bloody weird to ask after you’ve dropped your child off 😂

Chestnutz · 05/10/2023 08:58

YABU and you know it.

YourNameGoesHere · 05/10/2023 08:59

What good is starting a thread when you've already sent her to school. Hmm

Of course you're unreasonable but you already knew that.

OnAir · 05/10/2023 09:00

Maybe op will shit themselves today... karma

Goodgrief83 · 05/10/2023 09:01

YourNameGoesHere · 05/10/2023 08:59

What good is starting a thread when you've already sent her to school. Hmm

Of course you're unreasonable but you already knew that.

She’s bored?

margotrose · 05/10/2023 09:01

What's the point in threads like this?

TheLongGloriesOfTheWinterMoon · 05/10/2023 09:01

YANBU.

Anecdote: our GP despairs at the blanket 48 hour thing.
Says any D&V is about 99% to be down to something one child ate or poor personal hygiene around food and therefore not a "bug". In other countries the 48 hour thing and obsession over "bugs" isn't even a thing. And strangely, they don't have entire classes off school because they all caught the vom.

TheLongGloriesOfTheWinterMoon · 05/10/2023 09:02

margotrose · 05/10/2023 09:01

What's the point in threads like this?

Same as 99.9% of threads.

JoshLymanIsHotterThanSam · 05/10/2023 09:03

It’s 24 hours for sick and 48 hours for diarrhoea so YANBU

SleepingStandingUp · 05/10/2023 09:03

There's no mention of diarrhea so I think 2 sleeps Vs 48 hours is fine. The small vom after dinner is just the tummy adjusting to food again in all likelihood.

DS has been sick at school and kept, he's been sent home and allowed in the next day. In ops case school would say send in.

cocunut · 05/10/2023 09:03

YABU. Yes kids are fine after throwing up but when the staff get it we can be really ill. I am immunosuppressed and last time I caught a nursery sickness bug I was off for a week. Who's going to teach your children when all the staff are off sick with D&V??

Icedlatteplease · 05/10/2023 09:05

TiredMamOfTwo · 05/10/2023 08:57

YABU. A sickness bug would put my kid in hospital.

Hate people like yourself, unbelievably selfish.

This

MrTiddlesTheCat · 05/10/2023 09:06

TheLongGloriesOfTheWinterMoon · 05/10/2023 09:01

YANBU.

Anecdote: our GP despairs at the blanket 48 hour thing.
Says any D&V is about 99% to be down to something one child ate or poor personal hygiene around food and therefore not a "bug". In other countries the 48 hour thing and obsession over "bugs" isn't even a thing. And strangely, they don't have entire classes off school because they all caught the vom.

I'm in another country and people here are very strict over the 48 hour rule. That's why we don't have whole classes off sick. Norovirus is very real and very infectious. Your GP needs to get back to medical school.

cocunut · 05/10/2023 09:07

However I imagine your DD will be fine if that's what you are worried about...

crumblingschools · 05/10/2023 09:10

Why does the GP despair, how does it impact them what rules schools have, unless it is staff being off looking after sick DC

Notintheparentingbooks · 05/10/2023 09:11

Yes yabu but I’m not going to waste my breath on explaining the impact on vunerable people … because of the last 3 years taught me nothing is that you won’t care anyway.

Finteq · 05/10/2023 09:14

Mines had a cough for a few days.

I've sent her in.

If I kept her off for every cough, she would never go in.

morag1234 · 05/10/2023 09:16

It's totally fine. I do the same thing.