No back up--nearest relative is 2.5 hrs away. I suppose if I was hospitalized we could make arrangements for the kids to stay at my IL's. But just an everyday sickness, stomach bug or whatever I plop the kids in front of the TV and bare through it. Check the clock every minute hoping it moves faster, and when the hubby comes home I check out....
Just went through this preggo with my 3rd. I thought really hard about calling the hubby and asking him to come home for one day. In reality tho' I wouldn't have rested any better, I'd hear the kids they'd come whining to ask me anyway. also any additional time off would be taken away from when my 3rd comes, so I'm trying to reserve keeping the hubby home for extreme cases.
there has only been one time where I asked him to come home I had the stomach flu, after taking care of everyone else. If I wasn't already so exhausted from being up 4 nights in a row, I would have just plowed through it, but I couldn't keep my eyes open. I felt it was horribly dangerous for, at the time, my 3yr old and 18 month old. I made it until noon, and said I just couldn't do it anymore. He came home early and I needed it.