Working Mothers more healthy

[threebob]

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I eat really well at home under sufferance.

At work I sit here eating all sorts of shite in peace without two pairs of beady eyes wanting some.

I sit on my arse all day, at home I am running around all over the place spliting up fights and clearing up mess.

Perhaps working mothers are seen as healthy because they don’t take time off sick. This is not because they don’t get ill but just because they don’t take time off ….ime there simply isn’t any point. If you have to get up anyway to take older children to school and younger ones to nursery/cm then you might as well just get on with it. If you decide not to take LO’s to childcare then you end up being ill at home with them going mad around you…..the office seems like a safe haven in comparison where you can sniff and feel like cack in peace. In the last 10 yrs the only time I’ve taken time off ill was when I had proper flu and as it was just after Christmas 1999, and I’m in IT, we were in the middle of the Y2K kerfuffle so I could only take 1 day off anyway Now I just don’t seem to get properly ill – I think my body has learnt the lesson that it’s a pointless exercise unless it’s going to go all the way and get bubonic plague .

joelalie... fully with you on that one... I don't take sickleave, even if my nanny is available, simply because as soon as mama is home the kids run riot... so office most definitely is a safe haven!

I am so sick of the mommy wars. Stay at home, working, heck, were all busy. What is the point of this study anyway?

Agree with Expat (again!) - what a load of crap and just another pathetic attempt at getting mothers back into work.

Btw, I'm a SAHM and I was in the pool at 7 o'clock this morning. SO ner.

Wish our pool opened then gdg. I don't think SAHMs get much chance to be off sick either. Following on from the comments made about working mums.

MrsBigD I think part of the reason you pick up lots of bugs is that you are a MUM. Full stop. So you have these little children mixing with other little children and bringing loads of bugs into the house which they shake off and pass on to Mum. That's what happens here anyway. Of course, your immunity might be affected by sleep deprivation, stress etc as well.

I see what you mean Bozza... however, dd comes home with sniffles and I get full blown bronchitis ... I think sleep deprivation is my downhill factor. And yes I probably would still pick everything up if I were a sahm :)

Well, if you'd quite doing all those drugs, Mrs.D, you might find your health improves.

are you referring to my imaginary magic cookies to subdue the kids?

Oh, are you telling people they are imaginary?

we're digressing from the thread! and yes it's a lovely little world I live in