Nursery bugs - how do you manage with work?

[Gigi00]

Hi,

DS (13 months) had been doing settling in days at nursery and clubs and has been sick since he started crawling 3 months ago. He contracted recently so much of a plague (for 2 weeks) he ended up being admitted to hospital (missing his first week of nursery). He then Recovered and went back to nursery for 4 days and is now sick again for the last few days over the weekend. Im trying to work and look after him (iv only just gone back to work a week Ago from mat)

How do you cope with them at home from nursery? When trying to work? Theres only so many days you can book off sick//leave etc.

We could ask family but they are vulnerable health wise, which makes me hesitant. When he is sick he also just wants me

From my understanding this is going to go on until he's at least 3 and built up an immune system

We take it in turns and use paid carer's leave. When that's used up, we'll be eating into annual leave or using unpaid carer's leave. We're also catching a lot of what our son gets and taking sick leave for this!

Sick leave, emergency leave and working from home but it is far from easy so I feel your pain. We're on our third vomiting bug of 2024 with my 2 year old, all caught from creche. Then they won't take him but will happily take our money. I know they have a business to run, but it seems so unfair that he catches these things there and then we have to keep him at home while paying 60 a day for the privilege.

My daughter was ill continuously for the first 2 months and since then she has had a 1-3 periods of sickness each year. She's 3.5 and been in nursery since 9 months.
This winter she and 3 days off nursery with a virus that gave her a fever and zapped her out a few weeks later she had one day off with a fever.
Last year she had 2 days off with covid and one day off with a sickness bug. I don't work Wednesdays and this helps to reduce the days off work.
Me and my partner share the leave but I probably do a little more as my partner leaves for work before she is awake so I take the first day off and he takes the second day and that isn't always required.
If it's the first day of an illness I don't get much done but after that I usually manage to do half a day , this is easier since she will sit and watch a film or TV. When she was younger the masked singer used to keep her quite engaged whilst I dealt with low mental effort tasks at work. If one of us has had a day off work with her the other tries to come home early so the other can do an hour or so in the evening. My mum has mobility issues but currently they are doing a little better and she is capable of sitting and watching TV with my daughter and getting her a drink and a snack which allows me to attend a meeting uninterrupted or get a little of higher effort tasks done. She can only manage a short time but it has proved to be very useful to keep up a bit more.

We have also had some snow days and they have been harder as she's needs more attention than when she curled up dopey on the sofa!