When today would I be unreasonable to contact my ex?

[CathyTre]

My ex partner and father of my children is senior management in a school.

I had the kids for the first three weeks of the current situation and now he has had them since Saturday and the plan was he has them for the Easter holidays as neither he nor his wife (also SLT in a different school) will be going into work for two weeks, then, all being well, they’d come back to me.

I have been talking to my children daily on the phone, as did he when they were with me.

I called this morning and he said he’s in bed, feels really ill, has a temperature and sore throat. It’s obviously not that unlikely he could have caught coronavirus as he and his wife are both key workers and have been going into work obviously since schools closed to look after key worker children.

I do not have a good (or any - there’s no unpleasantness just a complete lack of relationship) relationship with his wife. (OW not that it matters now except maybe explains why we have nothing to do with each other).

I want to call and speak to my children, but at the best of times she doesn't like me calling for some reason and I know he was feeling ill this morning. But I do want to speak to my kids.

I spoke to him about nine and he said he’d call me “in a bit, or you can call back later when I might be feeling better”.

Does anyone have any opinion about when would be an appropriate length of time to leave it?

Are you sure they aren't in school ? My school is still open during the Easter hols for key worker children

How old are the children?
Old enough to hold a phone or Skype?
You will need to isolate them when they back

Sorry pressed send too early
If they are better and out of isolation they're probably in work

No they’re not in school, both off now for two weeks (different schools but they have the same rotas).

Kids are seven and four, can use phone but not unless dad facilitates it.

Neither were ill (ex or his wife) before today; this is their planned time off on rota