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Originally Posted by rohara66
We have a 16 months old in daycare and we made it 1 month into daycare healthy which has been followed by 3+ months of sick child followed by me or my wife being sick. Recover from one and onto the next one.
Kid has has at least 3 separate cold/flues, HFM (hand/foot/mouth) and Covid. I've gotten all but HFM. Wife has gotten all but 1 flu and Covid (at least no symptoms).
Its ####ed up. I've been laid out the last 3 days the sickest I've ever been in my life and this is a week after recovering from covid (which luckily was mild).
We kept our kid home with HFM for nearly 2 weeks and Covid for a week. Other illness she's home for multiple days. She has had a cough for the last 3 months to which the doctor says is to be expected. WTF?
So if our kid isn't laid out sick or have a fever she goes to daycare. Doesn't help when both our employers 'want everyone in the office working' so working from home isn't really possible. Also doesn't help that you pay whether she goes to daycare or not and that we need to work to pay for said daycare.
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Originally Posted by malcolmk14
I could have written this post, except we haven't got Covid or HFM from daycare yet. Our 19 month old started daycare in September and has been sick and passed her sickness along to us at least 3 times. Some of the sicknesses just roll into the next one, it's brutal.
Last week it was pink eye and possibly the flu, this week, who knows? It sucks because we just know that if we send her for a few days, we'll all be getting sick in no time.
I'm not working, thankfully, but I am doing my master's and having her home with me during the day just doesn't lend itself to getting any work done. I've got a pretty light course load and am falling behind anyway. Plus, the nights are brutal because she's up crying sick or not sleeping well. She was up from 10 to 1:30 last night screaming at the top of her lungs, couldn't figure out what was wrong. Almost no doubt that she's coming down with something else. Fun.
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This probably isn't helpful, but the constant sicknesses in the first while of daycare was a pretty normal occurrence before this tsunami of germs as well. Anecdotally, it seems either kids get constantly sick in those first few months of daycare, or if they're kept home in the younger years, get it when they start school. Personally, I think parental leave should cover the transition period as well to deal with the sicknesses, figuring our your new logistics, things like that.