I told them. Tues-thurs I just have up decide which days. I thought 2 consecutive would be better but makes sense the splitting cause of sickness as I have no family to help.
I think who is around to help definitely impacts the decision, we don't have anyone around either so the split works better and because I contract so no work no pay then it the days off tends to fall to DH. I think the type of job impacts to, if you are waiting for responses from others, for them to review stuff etc then having a gap can work, gives people a day to review - certainly in my role if I only worked consecutive I would end up feeling like some work days got 'wasted' waiting for answers and then the next week would be starting again. Spreading days can give better 'coverage', and less need to check things out on non work days. (Work can get up to less 'mischief' if are only left to their own devices for one day at a time :-))