Nursery sickness x2

[andadietcoke]

I don't really know what advice I'm looking for, but I really need to vent. I'm exhausted. The babies are 10 months and started nursery at the end of May. They've basically been ill since - coughs, colds, conjunctivitis, tonsillitis, vomiting, diarrhoea, hand foot & mouth. Before all this they were eating three meals and sleeping until 7 from a dream feed. Now, not so much - won't settle at bedtime and then up every couple of hours, so we can't even get an early night to compensate for a disrupted night. When they're 'up' it's often for an hour or more, just screaming whenever they're put down, even though they're asleep on us. I'm just so exhausted. Some nights have been worse than when they were newborns.

Please tell me this too will pass and they'll have immense immune systems and will go back to self settling and sleeping well. So. Tired.

I haven't experienced nursery yet with my twins but I do remember my eldest DS being unsettled when he started. Like your babies, we had lots of illness. Sleep was also disrupted too. He went for four days of the week and had Wednesdays off with me. I generally found he needed lots of sleep on he days at home with me and at weekends too, mainly because he wasn't sleeping for very long at nursery. He started in September and I seem to remember that everything had returned to normal by Xmas, probably sooner. Hang in there, it's a big change for all of you and they will adjust eventually.