Hello Budgies1978, 

Chriss has given you some excellent advice and I thought I would just add this link from our website on Talking to children about cancer as well as this page from Macmillan on the same subject. You will find there some resources that may help you support your little ones during this difficult time. Your little ones are indeed so young at just three years old and it is an age when they don't really understand about illness and they tend to be mainly interested in what is going on in the moment. But as you said your little one seems to have picked up that something isn't quite the same with daddy and this may be why she is experiencing this separation anxiety. Or it may also simply be a developmental phase that she is going through. It would be worth perhaps talking to your GP about it and asking for advice on what to do in the current circumstances. Your doctor may have some good tips for you to help you support your little ones at the moment. 

I can imagine this is such a stressful time for you having to support your husband whilst looking after twin toddlers - poor you, you have a lot on your shoulders and I hope you have friends and family around to give you a hand when things get a bit much.

We are all here for you if you need to talk or offload and our nurses are only a phone call away on this free number 0808 800 4040 - their line is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm.

Best wishes, 

Lucie, Cancer Chat Moderator

Hello Budgies1978, 

Chriss has given you some excellent advice and I thought I would just add this link from our website on Talking to children about cancer as well as this page from Macmillan on the same subject. You will find there some resources that may help you support your little ones during this difficult time. Your little ones are indeed so young at just three years old and it is an age when they don't really understand about illness and they tend to be mainly interested in what is going on in the moment. But as you said your little one seems to have picked up that something isn't quite the same with daddy and this may be why she is experiencing this separation anxiety. Or it may also simply be a developmental phase that she is going through. It would be worth perhaps talking to your GP about it and asking for advice on what to do in the current circumstances. Your doctor may have some good tips for you to help you support your little ones at the moment. 

I can imagine this is such a stressful time for you having to support your husband whilst looking after twin toddlers - poor you, you have a lot on your shoulders and I hope you have friends and family around to give you a hand when things get a bit much.

We are all here for you if you need to talk or offload and our nurses are only a phone call away on this free number 0808 800 4040 - their line is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm.

Best wishes, 

Lucie, Cancer Chat Moderator