I know kids sleep more when they are ill but.........

[nutcracker]

Ds is 3.3 and hasn't had a sleep in the day since before xmas.
However he has been ill with temp, cough and cold since Sat and although his temp has finally gone he still seems so exhausted.

He had a really long sleep yesterday afternoon/evening, for about 3 hours, and today he fell asleep in his buggy about 1.30, woke up about half an hour ago and has now dropped off again on the sofa.

I know it's doing him good but just wanted reasuring really.

Sounds quite normal. as long as you can rouse him and he's ok in other respects let him sleep his body is mending itself this way. HTH

Thanks, yeah he can be roused although isn't generally happy about it

I think there's a lot of this temperature virus doing the rounds at the mo. ds1 (4 1/2) had it last wk, suddenly got v. high temp which lasted for about 4 days, slept most of the days, even after temp has gone he's still sleeping a lot more, i.e. normally sleeps for about 9hrs at night, but sleeping 12 hours, plus a nap in daytime. As long as he's otherwise well I don't think you should worry too much.

Have woken him now and he seems fine apart from his cough.

I'm trying to persuade him to have some toast or something but he's not interested.

dont it ll only bmake a guest reappreance later

He's not being sick Cod, just generally grumpy and tired.

nutty sounds like he has what dd has got, yesterdya she zonked out, fell asleep on my bed while I was cleaning the upstairs at 11.30am, woke up at 5.30 for a drink then back to bed for the night at 6.30
She is much better today, cough is wheezy crackly but coming up ok...
Hope your ds improves overnight too xx