Keeping DC off school but baby overdue

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Bit of a dilemma and looking for your opinion of what you’d do in my situation.

DC returned to school after summer break. After attending for maybe a week or so DC was sent home on one occasion due to vomiting suddenly. Then during another week DC caught a bad cold. Also had some letters from the school regarding positive covid cases.

So I’m thinking lots of bugs and viruses spreading again since the schools started back.

Anyway, I thought it would be best if I kept DC off school before the birth, at least for a week or so just so we can all be germ free for when baby arrives.

Baby is now overdue, I feel a bit silly expecting it to have happened on my due date or at least near it but my previous pregnancies have all been a little early so I was just assuming this one would be too.

Should I just send DC into school until baby arrives?

Sorry should’ve said DC has been off for a week now. So quite a bit of school missed already.

I only have 1 child so haven't had this situation, but DP was working in a hospital, during the pandemic, when DS was born. It never occurred to us that DP should stop work to make us 'germ free'.

Personally I would send DC back to school. Surely they've missed enough school already.

Of course they should be at school!

Germ free is not a reasonable option, nor should it be. Your home is not a sealed bubble and a good thing too. Babies (unless there is some immune-suppressed issue) do not need a sterile environment thank goodness.

Send him to school.

School. they have surely missed enough already. Feet up time for you OP💐

Hmm difficult one. I am pregnant and am recovering from a fucking awful vomiting bug which swept through my house at the weekend. I'm going to be staying at home for 2 weeks before the birth (planned c section), but won't stop my husband working or children going to childcare.

So at first I agreed with you, best to all stay at home. But really it's not enforceable and anything from a bug now to the next couple of months is going to be so hard to cope with, but you can't all stay in for that long surely?

I was just hoping baby would be here by now and DC would have had limited contact with bugs and viruses to give us the best start but yeah I think better to get back to school since I have no idea when baby is coming. Maybe germ free wasn’t the best wording, more like didn’t want baby coming into a home where someone had a cold or vomiting bug.

And then what happens when you have a new born? Will it be safe to send the older kids back to school when you have a 3 day old baby or later? The kids may feel rejected if they are at home and then suddenly sent away when the new baby comes but you can’t be home schooling them with a new born.