Teachers who have kids in nursery

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LO is starting nursery in a few months. It’s widely known that when your kid starts nursery that every pox and plague known to man will befall your house. If you are a teacher did you get loads of bugs during the first year of nursery, or has your teacher immunity saved you slightly? I remember being ill all the time during my NQT but I’ve been fine for the last 5 years or so.

My teacher immunity kept me completely unscathed.

Not quite the same but we came out of lockdown as I went back to work after maternity leave as a teacher. So we started going to baby groups for the first time. I got everything! Toddlers seem to have a different set of illnesses than what my immunity was used to from school! Hopefully this was just because lockdown had meant immunity was low anyway.

I want to reassure you and say I was fine but it's been a bloody nightmare and at one point I was hospitalised but I can't pinpoint if that was thanks to my child or the ones I teach... My almost decade of immunity did not stop the onslaught of bugs getting the better of me.

I find teachers changing schools get ill too. Different strains of sick bugs.

When my daughter first started private nursery and 18 months, I was relatively unscathed, but she moved to preschool last year and I’ve caught everything she’s had this time.

I am on maternity leave atm though so maybe the lack of ‘live’ exposure is what’s letting me down?

I am not a teacher but work in a nursery. When I went back after maternity the first time I caught so many colds from DD - I swear each setting has its own germs! Now on maternity again and DD is now in a different nursery - new germs, new illnesses!

I work in a nursery. Lots of our little ones do a short day at nursery with a childminder for wrap around. If they are poorly they stay with the childminder who seems to have an immune system of steel.

Sounds like I’m fucked 😂 I’m secondary to so the germ cocktail is likely to be quite different

I Avoided most bugs my little onebrought home. But it turned out I'd never had hand foot and mouth. Bollocks, that was awful. I had to wear gloves and a mask at school (it's not hugely contagious, but bad enough!) And my feet HURT. Bloody miserable!!!!!!!