This is what scared me most about being a single mum - and I had to move back with my parents as it got to me so much.
Had one horrid experience when DS was 6m and I thought I was going to die with stomach pains and sickness one night - at least I was back at work at that point and would have been missed if I hadn't turned up by 9am!
I keep thinking of that poor single mum who died getting the presents out of the loft last christmas and nobody noticed for a couple of days -poor kids.