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How many holidays do I need for nursery bugs?

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ZaHaK · 23/09/2025 17:44

My DD starts nursery next month at 11 months old. I don’t go back until November, a month after she’s started. I’ve accrued all of this years holidays plus carried over some from last year and will have next years holiday too.
How many do you think I need for my nursery bugs?

I will be working 3 days a week.

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ZaHaK · 25/09/2025 08:58

CreteBound · 25/09/2025 07:15

No, your job is essential to your financial independence and security. Especially if you are aren’t married.

50 percent of relationships fail.

Don’t be one of those women. Make him do his share and protect your earning capacity

We are married plus has set up a savings account for me where he’s puts money in, in case anything happened to him and is trying to pay the mortgage off.

He will obviously take days off too but he can’t if he’s away at work so trying to work out how many holidays I need.

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KickHimInTheCrotch · 25/09/2025 09:06

Neither of mine were off that much. I took carers leave a few days a year and exDP did as well. I can't remember ever taking annual leave and we have no family help. Both DC were in nursery 3 days a week while I worked. It was only chicken pox that was the big hitter and required them to be at home for a whole week each (years apart).

roses2 · 25/09/2025 09:38

DS1 got sick once every two months or so for 2 days at a time

DS2 was sick two weeks per month for his first six months. I had to pay for an all call emergency nanny so I didn’t miss too much work

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carparkwars · 25/09/2025 16:35

My DD went to nursery 2 days a week for 3 years and had 2 days off sick in total (and one of those was just to give her an extra day to recover rather than needing to keep her home). She's also been at school now for 3 weeks and not caught a single bug.

ZaHaK · 25/09/2025 20:47

carparkwars · 25/09/2025 16:35

My DD went to nursery 2 days a week for 3 years and had 2 days off sick in total (and one of those was just to give her an extra day to recover rather than needing to keep her home). She's also been at school now for 3 weeks and not caught a single bug.

what age did she start?

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ZaHaK · 25/09/2025 20:48

Thank you everyone. It seems like I won’t know until she starts as it doesn’t seem like every child is off sick all the time.

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carparkwars · 25/09/2025 20:58

ZaHaK · 25/09/2025 20:47

what age did she start?

She started just after she turned one, she's also my eldest so hadn't been around constant bugs before then.

I do wonder if it's because she was in only two days a week she wasn't there enough to pick everything up or if it was just luck. But it's worth mentioning that she didn't have 'sick days' at home either so it's not like she was getting sick at nursery and recovering by the following week. She just doesn't seem to get sick.

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