to be getting narked off with son constantly being sick since starting nursery..

[Lozza70]

...I know it happens and everyone said the first few months would be a mare but this is every week. Bless his wee heart he is keeping his chin up but I'm not sure how much longer my boss can keep a smile on as I tell her once again that I have to go and pick him up from nursery as he is sick.In the meantime I'm at home eating when I should be getting back into the world of work after being off for a year.

How long will this go on for????

Can you share the nursery pick ups between you and Dp/DH? Does it always have to be you?

this is totally unscientific but maybe a childminder would be better for now? Only being with three, four or five-ish other people must bring down the rates of him being exposed to bugs? Maybe?!

I hear you, My daughter has been ill maybe 2/3 times in her first three years and maybe every 10 days since she started nursery in September

It would bloody help if some mothers stopped dropping their children off in the nursery looking like death and very ill.

Last week I saw a mother dropping her kid off and doseing him with calpol before she left, maybe I am being stupid but if a child needs medicine then they should not be at school !?!

I am seriously thinking of keeping her home next week, just so I can have a break from the illness (when of course goes through me, DH and baby DS, just in time for the next bug)

I am so very sick, of vomit and poo

I am sympathetic - my dd3 is at nursery 3x/wk and is 1.5. She still seems to get colds often, but it is more like every 3 wks instead of every week. I hate to say it but it is their immune system developing, and it is just a bit like this for the first couple of years. My older dc (8 &7) now only get sick 1 or 2x a season. So it does get better, but it takes a while! 'Tis a drag though...

Babieseverywhere I know what you mean about being sick of vomit and poo. Last week was projectile vomiting after every meal, it was like something out of the Exorcist . My washing machine has never been used so much and that's saying something.

unfortunally there will always be bugs/S&D etc at nursery

your child will catch most things till builds up an immune system

its unfair but your child will go to nursery healthy, get some kind of bug from nursery then not be allowed to be at nursery till betterincase infects all the other children - even though it is their fault your child has that bug

only way round taking time off from a nursery or cm is to have a nanny (who will happily look after an ill child)

YANBU. The very nature of a nursery though is that it is used by working parents and inevitably, children are at nursery when they are still contagious so it can seem to be a constant round of bugs. I'd ask the nursery how strictly they enforce rules about vomiting bugs etc and also ask about what happens when kids are on antibiotics. At drop off this morning at pre school, one mum was cheerfully explaining to staff that little X was coughing so much that she was vomiting her anti biotics up so she hadn't bothered giving them to her - little doll looked like death and had gone home before pick up. Multi vitamins and face masks ?

Most of the time the infection will have been spread befor the child has developed any symptoms.I don't think it is necessarily fair to blame other parents

Lozza - if your ds is projectile vomiting after every meal, it would be a good idea not to feed him for 12 if not 24 hours to give his little tum a rest. It sounds like he had a stomach bug.

Yanbu to be narked.
It will get better though. He will have a cast-iron immune system in a years time.

YANBU to be annoyed. It is annoying I know. Do think about sharing the time of with your dp if you have one though.

My dh's work seems to think that the default parent when ds is sick is me but that's not fair on my work so we alternate time off if necessary.

Agree with Nicky as well - ds has been going to nursery for 2 years now and I don't think he's had a day off sick this year come to think about it.

just to go against the grain, DS had D&V for 6 weeks when he started nursery, we changed his nursery and he's been fine since

Agree with Stealth - approaches to hygiene and exclusion rules vary so much from nursery to nursery and they DO make adifference to D&V bugs.

Luckily BBH the projectile vomiting was last week and he got over that, we did cut out the food for a bit. Today it's a cough and temperature with accompanying runny bum, sorry TMI, that seems to have appeared from nowhere. I will just have to find my inner zen and get on with it, and make sure DH does some of the cover as sick child does not always mean I have to sort it out.

Looking forward to DS getting that cast iron immune system in future, no excuses for getting out of school when he gets to that age

ah bless, they say they get ill 8 times a year when little, had just the same and my friend is experiencing similar

but agree you cant take all the stick with this occuring, get DP to share or even ask for the unpaid parental leave to cover such emergencies, bet you that by the time you get it sorted it will all stop occuring tho

For bad tummy try the BRAT diet i swear by it
banana
rice
apple
toast!!!

that's my DS's diet anyway