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I voted person A! I think a cold is easier to deal with than a stomach bug!!

They both sound terrible, but I would rather be person B than A with a high fever on duty! So I say B! But really, whoever can take it!

This is like a brain teaser, haha. I think stomach viruses are the worst, but as this is day 2 and the worst is over and the other person has a current high temp, B has to do it.

In our house, it's whoever complains loudest. If we all have colds, DH is a bit of a baby who will try to ignore that I am also sick and will try to go lay in bed at like, 7 pm which is the busiest/most stressful time of our night when LO 1 has to have bath and bedtime routine, but LO 2 is in witching hour--and leave me to deal with both kids. So I tell him absolutely not and make him stay up till the kids were in bed.

On the other hand, once I got a stomach bug and was up for hours feeling sick and finally threw up at 3 in the morning. Right as I was falling asleep, LO 1 woke up and Dh was like, "I also don't feel good. Can you go get her?" And I was SO ENRAGED because I'd just thrown up and hadn't slept at all. So I like whisper shouted at him, and made him go--and I found out hours later (after sleeping) that he threw up on the way to her room, and then LO 1 threw up and he slept with her, both of them sick and then I knew I was the worst mother and spouse in the world.

@Anagram: hahaha when the noro virus went through our house last year we were supposed to host brunch. It was my husbands day to get up with our son and he wouldn't so I was ENRAGED. He is sooooo whiny when he is sick he is like the man who cried wolf. So anyway, after being a bitch all morning, my son thew up all over me and I realized I was in fact the worst.... and then 36 hours later I got my come-up-ance and was sick too. What a fun 72 hours that was!

It depends on how high the fever is for me. I'm such a bear when I get a high fever. I literally can't function. I haven't had a stomach virus in a long time though, so I can't speak to that. Also, the pregnant person should get a pass, especially if you are anemic!

I'd say person B, but only because person A currently has a fever and is at risk for catching a stomach bug, while Person B is at the tail end of being sick.

I voted person A because that sounds most likely.

Meanwhile, DH and I were both deathly ill one time when DS was an infant, and I had full on duty all day and night while he rested in bed. It sucked so bad I called my parents a state away to come help us.

Diarrhea is the trump card. Hard to take care of a LO if you have to suddenly run to the toilet.

It would be a whole different question if I were pregnant! But in our current situation, I think we'd both kind of do it, but not well, if that makes sense! Like, he'd have canned soup for dinner, no bath, and a late bedtime, haha.

Feel better!

Obviously the non pregnant person, for god's sake. But also I'd be doing a highly abbreviated version of whatever parenting was called for. I'd be putting on tv and ordering pizza without thinking twice about it.

@Cherrybee: I'm dying to know which one you were. Full disclosure... I'd probably be pretty annoyed no matter which sickness I had if I was pregnant and had to take care of LO1.

@Cherrybee: You are a trooper!

I'm keeping my fingers crossed you don't catch the stomach virus your DH and LO had!! I had one at 36 weeks pregnant and it was seriously the most miserable I've ever felt!

A pregnant person out of work because of exhaustion gets an automatic pass - how is this even a question for your husband?? I think your husband should have taken over because you always are the one who seems to be required to step up.

(not trying to be mean!)