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Corona virus dilemma

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Schwave · 28/02/2020 13:57

I’ve just found out I’m pregnant again, after two unexplained second trimester miscarriages and a chemical pregnancy in the past 18 months. I’m excited and terrified in equal measure!
My parents have just returned home from a week in Tenerife. They stayed about 10km from the hotel that’s infected with corona virus, so fairly safe, but you never know who they could have been sat beside on the plane home. They’re due to come and visit me in two weeks and I’m freaking out a bit. Could they be carrying the infection even if they don’t display any symptoms? Or do I only have to worry if they get a fever in the next two weeks?
They live on the opposite side of the country to me, so everything for their visit is all booked and paid for and I think they’ll think I’m overreacting if I ask them to rearrange. I wouldn’t even consider if I wasn’t pregnant.

What would you do in my situation?

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Hingeandbracket · 28/02/2020 14:22

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AlexaShutUp · 28/02/2020 14:27

Ignore the thread police.Hmm

Your parents aren't due to visit for another two weeks, which is the length of a standard quarantine period, so I don't think you need to worry, unless they develop symptoms in the interim.

Unfortunately, in another two weeks, I think the infection will be quite widespread across the UK anyway, so your parents visiting will probably be the least of your concerns.

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Hollywhiskey · 28/02/2020 14:36

I would enjoy the visit with my parents. NHS is advising people coming from China and really high risk places to self isolate for two weeks, no longer and that's how long you've got.
I was just in Tenerife and walked past that hotel every day with my baby. We've seen pregnant friends and family since then.
Of course there's a massive outside chance that somehow your parents bumped into that guy say on the flight and somehow caught it (think is fifteen minutes in fairly close proximity) and the two week thing is insufficient and somehow you get it, but

  1. The risk of Coronavirus seems to be more towards elderly people not to tiny and unborn ones and
  2. In the nicest possible way if you're going to get it you're going to get it. If you live in a city, take public transport, work with colleagues etc you're surely more likely to get it from there.
You just need to take sensible precautions like washing your hands and following your Midwife's advice in general which I'm sure you are. X
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