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[quote=Anonymous]We have three kids - DS5, DD4 and a 7 month old baby boy.

Overall the transition to three has been surprisingly smooth. But the first wave of winter sickness hit us this week and I’m wrecked.

Started with a fever for DD4 last week. She was home from school Tuesday-Friday. That was stressful but manageable. By Thursday my husband got it, so the two of them hunkered down Thursday and Friday. Meanwhile baby was at his nanny share and DS5 was at school.

Today though, I woke up super sick. DD4 is 100% better. Husband is 80% better. Neither of the boys have been sick. So we’re trying to juggle three healthy kids, keep two of them away from germs, I’m a mess. We’re a non-screen family except illness and airplanes, and the big kids watched a TON of TV today. They were able to go to a friend’s house for a couple hours.

I don’t know what we’re going to do tomorrow. I’m miserable, and am staying at least six feet away from the baby, so DH is doing all baby care. The big kids are supposed to go to swim class tomorrow morning and they really should (DD in particular has been cooped up SO MUCH she’s going stir crazy) but I can’t care for the baby and I don’t know if I can get them to swimming (plus it’s a dick move for me to be inside with other people when I’m sick). Basically all their friends are out of town, so I don’t think we’ll even be able to send them elsewhere to play.

How to bigger families (who can’t just play man to man) handle this sort of thing? Any tips from more seasoned parents of 3+ kids?

I’m starting to understand why in old stories, as soon as one kid got sick they’d just stick em all in bed together until they all got it. [/quote]

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