It is getting to me ladies. Week before last Ds and me and my mother all had that horrid bug, Ds was sick all over my bed, several times, we all ended up camping downstairs. It was hellish and there was so much washing, no blankets left to sleep under etc. Anyway washing now caught up with, boys now Ok...then Ds1 gets a bad cold, cough etc. and well, he is one of those children who is always sick with a cough, it just happens, and last few nights he's been coughing like mad, waking me, waking the baby, I think i have PTSD about the sick thing from 2 weeks ago as I am just lying there thinking 'he's about to throw up all over us all again' with every cough. Last night I got the baby bath and stuck it on the bed and said, 'look, if you need it, it's there' and then he did need to throw up, and I directed him at it and it all went in the bath, brilliant.
I then decided to oust him from the communal bed as me and the baby were getting NO sleep at all thanks to poor coughing child.
He slept after a story on the sofa in his room, while I sat there bleary eyed with baby, then crept back to big bed.
No sleep was had by anyone really, it seems to be going on for weeks, I am so resentful and traumatised by having to do midnight bed changes, that I feel like just giving up.
Nobody is there to take a turn at it.
Arggghhhhhhh
Sorry about that. Thankyou for reading.
Don't suppose anyone else is feeling under attack by germ ridden four year olds? If not would someone like to adopt him please? Just for a week or two...