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Yep, right here. I actually posted about it and asked for advice how to avoid the daycare crud I kept getting. I basically spent months 4-6 postpartum constantly sick and miserable. It's been much better for me in the past month, so I'd say I started to turn a corner around month 8. I'm EPing too, and I felt like I always got everything way worse than my LO. Related, I threw up a LOT during pregnancy and have the weakest stomach now. Everything makes me throw up. It's awful. I hope you turn the corner soon!

yes me too with the low level crud (or worse) all the time! This past year I’ve definitely been sick more than usual, maybe it is just having 3 kids to harbor germs ... my oldest is 8 and youngest is 1.5 so I don’t really think it’s postpartum but kids did change things in my body I’m sure. My immune system was really a joke during my last pregnancy. I was sick a lot, got the flu pretty badly and finally got shingles at 38w pregnant.

@karenbme: I feel like this was me, especially after my first baby. I was sick so much while EBF - luckily the baby barely got sick (until he went to daycare at 14 months, then I was sick all the time all over again)... good luck - try to sleep as much as possible with a newborn and eat well.

@karenbme: Honestly I think the thing that helped me the most was getting a break so that I could recover. I was sick back to back to back for so long that I never really got to recover fully and the cycle was vicious. It's a tough circle to break when you're in it. I'd also say to sleep as much as you can, but hahahaha, I know how that is. I tried elderberry after it was suggested a lot, but I had a HORRIBLE reaction to it! I'd never heard of it before but it definitely didn't agree with me. (I also just read a NYT Parenting article about it that basically discounted it, so I put myself through days of crud for nothing. But some people do swear by it, so who knows!)