the one thing I can honestly say I hate about having many children is.................

[psychomum5]

............all the feckin illnesses, all the feckin time!!!

on day 8 of the new round of bugs, third virus in the family this year since they went back to school in january, and no let up as yet.

DS1 is better altho looking pale and thin
DS2 in full-croup mode again (also, 3rd time since xmas)
DD3 still spiking temps, now being sick aswell
DD2 looking very poorly
DD1 now complaining of sore throat and sore eyes so she too is brewing it
DH is on the mend
I am brewing it

and once it has been thru us, the damn thing will have mutated into something new and will start again, I can guarantee it

damn bugs!

I am now ill too.

throwing up all night, plus t'other end too.

my tummy muscles are being well worked out tho, if there can be a bright side.......

added in that DD3 and DS2 are still coughing all night long, there is not much resting going on, for them or me and DH. they look so pale now tho..........poor things, I just cannot manage to get anything in them that helps.

Your poor thing

I'll forget the time we all had norovirus..........

it was horrendous

I hate it too and I have 3 kids.

Tuesday night, DD1 high temp, hacking cough, generally looked like shit.

Wedesday morning, DD1 still not great, but getting there - still high temp.

Wednesday afternoon - DD2 high temp, hacking cough, looking like shit.

This morning, both quite rough looking, lunchtime both bouncing around demanding to go to school and nursery. Send them both, this evening not great.

DS in the mean time has been in teething hell, snotty nose, sore bum and generally grisly.

I have had sore eyes and slight headaches since yesterday.

Fingers crossed DH stays well, but he said this morning he was freezing when it really wasnt cold so not much hope there.....

I only have the energy to nod sagely at all these woes. two of mine ill again. I think we managed about 36 minutes without any sickness in the house.

Oh, gosh, my sympathies to all you ill ladies!! How horrible for you all!
I am sure your DH/DP or DCs are all rallying around you, mopping your brows, bringing puke buckets, giving lots of sympathy and feeding you small amounts of home-made chicken soup when you can tolerate it .

We can all dream... Hope you all feel better very, very soon.

Oh I'm totally with you on this Psycho. It's like all of us have been constantly ill since September, we even had 3 stomach bugs each over Christmas and new year ffs. This week dd has been off school with a sore throat and unexplained itchy rash. I fell ill yesteday with a fever and general shittiness. I'm sitting here now shaking with a blanket wrapped round me, it's a bloody nightmare!

feeling better today, and both DD3 and DS2 slept all night long

am gonna have a lazy-day still so as not to over do it and ruin the weekend, but it seems that (for now) the bug is getting bored of us!

I was told by a 'friend' (after I had had my fourth) that families with four children have less than five completely illness-free weeks a year.

Actually I think that statistic is overly optimistic in our case.

Hope you are all better.

and there was me feeling all better...........and mine comes back again.

bad tummy again.

on the bright side, only one child poorly still

oh crap

so far my kids are reasonably tough. Will having the fourth straight away have some kind of impact that means they'll be ill more. I'm kind of assuming its the more you have in education catching icky things that are the problem

bronze, if it is of any hopefullness, mine were in and out of hospital from being small, and that started with DD1, so was certainly NOT a large family at that point.

I will keep my fingers crossed then (and my legs )

legs is only ok if you haven;t anyone up there already.

it might otherwise turn out to be pretty painful!!!

hadn't thought of that

though he can wait 10 weeks first

it would have proved slightly painful then

Bronze, I hope all goes well with no 4, luckily my 4 are pretty illness free and I always put it down to a healthy disregard for antibac cleaners and being too mean to turn the heating on unless I can see my breath. I'm sure statistically you are bound to get more illness as the DCs increase in number but I haven't found it be be inevitable. I'm now off to touch lots of wood/cross fingers and kiss rabbits feet to keep it that way.

My 4 are rarely ill. too.
But FIGHTING, we get tonnes of it. And constant interruptions when I try 2 do anything -- it;s exhausting.