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To send baby to nursery with cold

108 replies

Bathbubbles · 06/12/2020 21:04

I'm back at work and my 8 month old goes to nursery once a week. When he came home last Thurs he had a terrible night was coughing boiling temp snooting sneezing etc. He's still not quite right but better. He still needs calpol 2-3 times a day as he still has 3-4 coughing episodes a day, snotty nose and general aches and is not himself wanting cuddles teary etc. AIBU to send him to nursery or should I take carers leave from work? I feel like he probably needs to be at home but when I've read up it says you only need to keep them off if they have a temp. I a) don't want the nursery to frown at me for sending a snotty coughy baby to nursery and b) don't want my work to think I'm taking the mick it's just a cold send him to nursery you don't need the day off.
Any thoughts please? First time mum wwyd

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year5teacher · 06/12/2020 21:05

I guess if you didn’t test him then you need to keep him off as he had covid symptoms and is still poorly.

Mumofsend · 06/12/2020 21:05

Has he had a covid test?

Notapheasantplucker · 06/12/2020 21:06

Take the day/couple days off and give him lots of cuddles! Bless him, don't send him in.

Notapheasantplucker · 06/12/2020 21:07

Posted too soon, I also thought Covid symptoms..?

KormaKormaChameleon · 06/12/2020 21:07

Of course keep him off. He's not well enough to go if he still has calpol and could pass his illness on to the other children.

Thatwentbadly · 06/12/2020 21:07

If he has a temp he needs a Covid test and he can only return after a negative test and 48 hours after his temp has returned to normal.

flaviaritt · 06/12/2020 21:08

He needs to stay off if he’s ill enough to be upset.

Amanduh · 06/12/2020 21:08

He’s in pain, needs pain relief 3 times a day, and is unhappy.. aside from the covid symptoms, do you really need to ask?!

Levatrice · 06/12/2020 21:08

You will just get called to collect him if he is that poorly once you’ve dropped off anyway?

Original poster
Bathbubbles · 06/12/2020 21:08

No he hasn't had a covid test. I do think it's just a bad cold. My partner and I work In healthcare he's tested weekly and I do at home tests twice weekly and we are still negative.

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Incrediblytired · 06/12/2020 21:08

Nursery can look after children’s with colds, but has he had a covid test? The temperature needs a test or isolation

mynameiscalypso · 06/12/2020 21:09

You need to isolate, get him a covid test and tell the nursery. Presuming it's negative, I'd send him in if he's okay in himself. If he's grumpy and just wants cuddles, I'd keep him at home.

mooncakes · 06/12/2020 21:09

I'm assuming you've had him tested and he's negative for covid?

If so, he can't go to nursery if he needs calpol and is teary and needing cuddles all day.
You only send them to childcare if they are well enough to join in normal activities and don't need extra attention because they're ill.

jgjgjgjgjg · 06/12/2020 21:09

Are you for real? You have a baby with a cough and it hasn't occurred to you that he needs to tested for Covid?? Of course you can't send him to nursery. Or anywhere else. He needs to be isolated and tested ASAP.

mooncakes · 06/12/2020 21:10

First thing you need to do is get him tested then.

mynameiscalypso · 06/12/2020 21:10

@Bathbubbles

No he hasn't had a covid test. I do think it's just a bad cold. My partner and I work In healthcare he's tested weekly and I do at home tests twice weekly and we are still negative.
Doesn't matter. Nursery won't accept him with a temp or a cough.
flaviaritt · 06/12/2020 21:10

You could be sending him in with Covid, then. Of course the nursery will send him home and they might report you, both to police and your employer, if you tell them he’s had these symptoms and no test.

year5teacher · 06/12/2020 21:10

Fair enough your household get regular tests but he had a high temperature and a cough and you are sure it’s a cold and want to send him into nursery with a bunch of other kids, all of whom have family, and the staff... Hmm

ramblingsonthego · 06/12/2020 21:10

@Bathbubbles

No he hasn't had a covid test. I do think it's just a bad cold. My partner and I work In healthcare he's tested weekly and I do at home tests twice weekly and we are still negative.
Who's to day your little one didn't pick covid up from nursery? You cannot send him in until you have had a negative covid test or isolated for 10 days for him and 14 days for you and your partner.
mooncakes · 06/12/2020 21:11

@flaviaritt

You could be sending him in with Covid, then. Of course the nursery will send him home and they might report you, both to police and your employer, if you tell them he’s had these symptoms and no test.
No, the nursery won't report anyone to the police for not getting a covid test Confused
Mumofsend · 06/12/2020 21:11

Nursery can't accept him with a cough and having had a temp without being tested. Doesn't matter that you as parents are being tested routinely. He himself isn't

JillofTrades · 06/12/2020 21:12

He sounds miserable poor thing. I would keep him off as he probably just needs lot of cuddles and rest at home.

NannyR · 06/12/2020 21:12

I think there's a difference between sending a baby to nursery with a snotty nose and sending a baby who is ill enough to need regular calpol. You should keep him off (and get him tested)

speakout · 06/12/2020 21:12

Other than covid concersn is he is miserable then he needs cuddles from someone who loves him.
Mother/father grandparents anyone else close.

FannyCann · 06/12/2020 21:12

Even without Covid it pisses me off so much poorly children being sent to nursery infecting all the others.
And a poorly baby needs to be at home, getting cuddles and lots of sleep in his own cot.