How often does your child get sick?

[~Kim~]

Not very often here either.
However, when DD1 started childcare at 18 months old we were really really ill (both her and I) for 6 months straight....so ill I had to miss the first day of a new job since she brought home gastro on her first 3 days lol.

She missed 1 day through illness last year. She was too ill to get out of bed.
We live in a special environment here though, with unique....ummm hazards lol.

Nothing special done, but the girls have a great diet (DSs sucks he's just lucky he's cast iron), spend a lot of time in the sunshine and the dirt.

[LuluHB]

Mine were sick heaps last year - it was just a round robin of one would go down, and then the next and then the next and then back to the beginning again. I gave I and E multivitamins but don't know that they did anything. Having been very much against it in the past, I am considering the flu vaccine for everyone this year - the girls were sick heaps and I ended up with pneumonia.

I know my girls don't eat well enough, but its not through lack of trying on my part. I think they would be a lot healthier if I could get a more balanced diet into them but they just won't eat it. I also think a lot of our trouble last year is that my kids have never been to daycare and so haven't been exposed to a lot of bugs before they got into the school system. If you've got people with kids in your kids' class that send their children to school no matter how sick they are, its a losing battle.

I'm just hoping that things will improve as they get older.

[AliBaby]

As a teacher, most kids wouldn't have more than 5 days off a year from sickness. I am not including childhood illness I.e. chicken pox, etc or family holidays.

Hopefully your DD's immunity will build up soon.

[sangie]

Thanks Alibaby, I hope so too.

I hope you all get better soon Schonell

I know its not her diet. She eats really well and a wide variety of veg/fruit. She's the kind of kid who'll eat all her dinner and then ask for more broccoli. Also I give her live yoghurt culture. I think she just lucked out with immunity. I blame her dad as I wasn't a child who got sick very much lol! She's never been to childcare either but she has had two years of kindy.

Marydean I asked her about soap at school and she said they have liquid soap but it has been empty some days

[LuluHB]

She eats really well and a wide variety of veg/fruit. She's the kind of kid who'll eat all her dinner and then ask for more broccoli.

Its just as well I love you, or else I'd have to hate you with a comment like that ;-)

[sangie]

LOL LuluHB. It's not all roses, her brother is the opposite

[Jellyfish]

I also have a little girl who is in love with brocolli. Shes had 3 weeks of kindy so far and nothing yet. Shes never been to childcare and has had only one cold in her entire 4yrs so will be interesting to see how the year plays out. I have been scared by everyonne saying the first year is a write off...

[chody47]

Sangie - did your DD attend childcare? I'm asking as my DD1 started around 6 months. The first 6 months she was sick nearly every week. Last year she was sick maybe twice a term. I'm hoping that by the time school starts she will have built up a bit of an immunity. If kindy and school are the first things your DD has attended on a regular basis then I would suggest (from my experience) its fairly normal to get sick often initially. Hopefully it'll reduce soon.