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I can understand this! We have had so many winter illnesses, it's driving me crazy! And she isn't in school yet it's just from regular activities I guess. and we have a newborn who of course I'm trying to keep healthy- I'm proud she made it to 7 weeks before her first cold.

It's tough. I feel like it's been an extra bad winter in terms of illnesses- or maybe now that she's doing more at 2.5 she's just bringing more home, I don't know. But I'm over it.

That first year in school is so hard! FWIW, DD was in daycare starting at 7 months until 17 months and I breastfed her the whole time. She was sick every other week when she started in fall. Now at 2, she neverrrrrr get sick and when she does, it lasts for like a day! Power through, it will get better!!

Constant illness since Halloween. No lie!! It absolutely sucks. 3 stomach bugs, multiple high fevers, constant colds. I'm hoping Kidnergaten will be a breeze!

@regberadaisy: there are many benefits to working at home, but not having childcare for your kids is not one of them!

Ugh, I feel ya. This winter has been soooo rough for colds with my LO. He's been sick off and on since Christmas. We are home this week because some lovely family decided to ruin our Mexican vacation by bringing a toddler with hand foot and mouth (they told us he had it.... But was "over it") So we flew home with 102 temperature and a sad miserable rashy baby. Thanks random family.

I noticed that when the kids stop putting so many things in their mouths, the illnesses go down. The first year my son was in daycare at age 2, he got so many colds and I attribute that to the toys they were playing with as well as the general way kids are at that age, lots of touching each other, etc.

It isn't your fault. We really struggle with this too. DD gets sick every time we do a kid activity. Not sure there is a way to prevent it other than not going. I taught 4yo school and was sick, very sick, constantly. I had a nurse when I was pregnant tell me every time she took her kids to a kid thing they got sick- I remember hoping it wasn't true. DD won't start school until baby 2 is over a year- at least that's the plan. I dream of moving to a warm place... what else can be done?

@2littlepumpkins: brutal. Good luck. I know it's near impossible. Just repeat after me, Spring is coming!

@Greentea: We live in California where its currently pretty balmy and it doesn't seem to make a difference! My son has been sick nonstop since the week before Christmas (when we started taking him for transitional playdates). He's technically okay for daycare right now, but he's had a runny nose for almost 2 months straight. DS started daycare full-time in January at 16 months and its been driving me bananas because I'm 6 months pregnant and DH and I have been catching EVERYTHING he brings home. Thankfully the flu vaccine seems to be working this year, but he brought home a virus last month that had the adults FLAT on our backs for 2 weeks straight. And we're sick again with like the 5th virus this year. DS wont even recover fully from one before he gets another one and as a family, we've only managed to go to church once or twice so far in 2016.

@2littlepumpkins: Its just a matter of WHEN the constant illness will be more convenient to deal with. We didn't have a choice about when to start daycare with DS (grandma/nanny quit suddenly), but I'm so pissed we had to start him at the height of cold/flu season, which is exactly when DH and I's work schedules are the busiest. All my friends with kids who stayed at home until preschool have told me its been BRUTAL for them - seriously, one mom told me to start saving my PTO and vacation time now because she and her husband burned through ALL of theirs the first year their oldest was in preschool (because the younger kid also got sick and had to stay home from daycare, etc).