Sick kids often lose their appetite.
Not exact matches
My
kids often tell me they're
sick just so they can have medicine.
When I end up being
sick, which isn't very
often, I still have to get things for «him» and the
kids (the
kids I can deal with), but it's the «him» part that drives me batty because «He» doesn't understand that you need time off as well, even for about 1/2 an hour to get some quiet time.
Being with fewer
kids in an in - home daycare may mean that your baby gets
sick less
often, though.
I find that I've been getting
sick often with cold / flu due to lack of sleep (got two young
kids - one 2yo and 5 months old, working mom) with exclusively pumping and seriously need to figure out how to sleep longer.
Pediatricians
often get a bad rap for always wanting to pull out their prescription pad when
kids come in for
sick visits.
Also, my husband hates to hear the
kids cry, so he will too
often cave and go into the room so that the younger doesn't disrupt our older son's sleep or throw up (even when not
sick) just because he's worked himself up so much.
Then I read articles where breast milk has so many more benefits for the
kids than formula — what if they don't get the antibodies and get
sick more
often?
And it's not because I have some doctor's office phobia or because I think
kids often go into a doctor's office being totally healthy and leave there covered in nasty germs from hundreds of other
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These comments NEVER came from her care team, the staff at the children's hospital (the IWK in Halifax, NS) were beyond fantastic and always told me that her getting
sick so
often was in no way my fault, that sometimes
kids just have a string of bad luck.
We don't have to use it
often, but when one of the
kids is
sick, or we are traveling and their schedules are crazy, this natural tincture helps them sleep peacefully.
That said,
kids do seem intuitive and
often don't want to eat much when
sick, and as long as they consume enough fluids, this is generally considered ok.
Having
kids can make you more likely to get
sick — it's not just that they go to nursery, pre-school and school with a bunch of other
kids, but also that you're
often finding yourself losing sleep, not eating properly, getting stressed — all the kinds of things that can weaken your immunity.
They
often use
sick kids needing hospital treatment they can't afford to pull at your heartstrings.
If you have a cold or the flu, the responsible thing to do is stay home from work — and if your
kids get
sick, you
often have no choice, if you're one of the many people who don't have anyone else available to care for them during the day.
The hard part is that this block of time
often gets interrupted by something
kid - related, such as forgotten lunches,
sick days, lice infestations and so on.