If you're ill

[Snowball]

Who takes care of LO's?

I've got a migraine today and it's taken me until now to be able to lift my head up. My parents have my 4 & 5 year olds this weekend so I have my 23 month and 8 week old.

It's got me thinking about if I was really ill and couldn't function what on earth I would do. No point asking FOB as he refuses to see them unless it's a prearranged time that he's set

What do you do?

 

[kirst1805]

I can't do anything.. No one is around to look after gem.

xxx

 

[littlelinnies]

my sis may look after them for me, but if not I have no one and usally just get on with it!x

 

[jlosomerset]

Same with me, cant rely on boys dads for anything!! Last year I had glandular fever and felt shocking for weeks on end, couldn't function at all but had no choice its just me and my boys xx
Hope you feel better soon

 

[v2007]

All me.

If Shaun wasn't at work, he might watch them



V xxx

 

[SophiasMummy]

I just have to carry on as normal as possible, but I think my mum would take her for a couple hours if I really couldnt do anything, I remember my mum caught chicken pox from me when I was 4 and she had it so bad she couldnt look after me so I had to stay at my aunts for a week, ive only got my mum though im sure if I was really seriously ill she would take LO for a couple days x

 

[rosie272]

Whenever I've been ill one of my sisters has came to stay or last year when I had a horrible flu, my friend came down for a couple of days. If none of them can make it (and thats happened this year) then it's just me and it's horrible

 

[Laura2919]

Firstly I would ask my parents, if they couldnt do it I would ask FOB and if he couldnt do it I would ask his mum, then I have aunties and uncles. I dont get ill much but when I do I am usually bed bound. Lol. Like last year I fell ill with a cold and ended up with the shakes and I felt terrible ended up in bed for 2 days.

 

[xSophieBx]

I only trust my mum looking after Lily & as we live with her she would help me out!

 

[rosie5637]

i just have to get on with it! i have no-one who could take my son.

i had my tonsils out when my son was 2yrs old. my mum managed to get 2 days off to have my son but from then on i was on my own. i wasn't meant to be getting out of bed, washing my hair or moving too much but had to cook meals, change nappies and bath my boy cause no-one else could do it for me. you cope because you have no choice.

 

[moomin_troll]

i wasnt a single mum at the time but my oh was away with work and me and zane had a awful d&v bug and i had to hold it n both ends to look after him and i did for 2 weeks as i had no other choice....my family were only 25 miles away and they didnt help.

now im a single mum of 2 again my family are only 2 miles away and i still have to look after them. ive been really ill with a bad cold and my mum wouldnt help cuz she was tired!!!

 

[mummy_ellie09]

I do it all myself. If I was *really* bad, then I'd like to think my parents would have him for me

 

[Croc-O-Dile]

When I had to get my abscessed tooth removed my mom watched after Livi. I was on so many painkillers and then got horribly sick after taking the pa in killers that I literally couldn't leave bed or even open my eyes.

I've been sick for 3 days now and the first day I just got on with it, the second day I got sent home from work and my mom looked after her while I slept it off for a couple hours. Today I just got on with it.

I've found that I can manage her fine unless I have to take medicine, then I quite literally become narcoleptic and it gets dangerous so I have to ask for help. If I didn't have anybody to watch her, I'd just not take the medicine.

 

[teal]

I normally have to just get on with it. There was once I was really bad and luckily my mum wasn't working so she helped out for a few hours so I could lie down xx

 

[amotherslove]

i would think my mum and sister would help out, but my mother did it all on her own when we were all sick.. matching puke buckets and everything.

 

[Scarletvixen]

Me even when i wasnt on my own it was mewho lookedafter them if i was ill!

 

[mkm1083]

I use an in-home daycare and she has been an absolute life saver sometimes. I pay her of course but if I'm really sick she will help me out plus she will watch them weekends during tax season when I have to put in 7 day work weeks.