Page 6 | To not get my baby tested for covid?

supersonicginandtonic · 17/01/2021 22:23

@HazeyJaneII oh gosh don't get me wrong, definitely isolate or test. I was talking about the temperature with teething.

Theunamedcat · 17/01/2021 22:26

Why didn't your "dh" thibk of this days ago and fucking sort it out?

Is covid suddenly wifework?

How much help has he been through the illness hopefully a lot

Theunamedcat · 17/01/2021 22:27

Also its ten days from onset of symptoms not 14 days from when your husband noticed

Viviennemary · 17/01/2021 22:34

Of course he needs to have a test. And you can't send your DD to nursery until you get the results.

Ilovenewyear · 17/01/2021 22:47

I’ll share my story. My DC had a slight temp and slight sore throat. It was September when the schools had gone back and everyone was trying to get a test. We couldn’t get any drive through appointments. It took 24 hrs of refreshing the system to order a postal test. That took 2 days. We did it and sent it back. It took 5 days to get a result and we as a household had to isolate. DC off school, DC off nursery and I had to shut my business. For 8 days. It was negative.

2 weeks later same DC came home from school complaining of a headache. That night started with a mild cough.
DH insisted we get them a test and isolate again. I cried.
Honestly. I just couldn’t face going through that again. The stress! Trying to get a test. The isolation. I cried.
But I knew he was right. So we did. Isolated. Tested again. Stayed at home again. The whole household. DC off school and nursery. Shut my business again. Results came back. Positive.

Now, I look back at who we would have mixed with - nursery, school, work and probably some family as we were tier 2 at the time and I just shudder at the thought.

I know it’s a massive PITA. Do whatever it takes to get through the isolation and get the test

PlonkyPlink · 17/01/2021 23:13

I don’t want to be harsh OP but I work in a COVID assessment hub and I’ve lost count of the amount of people who don’t get tested because they “know it’s not COVID” and it turns out to be COVID. In my opinion it is these people who are driving infection rates and I’m getting increasing frustrated with them. I even met a patient who went to work in the pub on Christmas Day with symptoms as they were so sure their cough wasn’t COVID, surprise, surprise, it was (who knows how many people they infected???)

If you have any symptoms, no matter what age, stay at home, get a test. Please.

Rosebel · 17/01/2021 23:34

I can understand why you were reluctant to get a test.
I don't think I could put my baby through that and would rather isolate with the family for two weeks. It was bad enough putting my 14 year old through it.
I'm glad you're getting the test done though. It probably isn't Covid (as baby only had a temperature for 2 days) but at least this way you can be sure.

GreenSlide · 17/01/2021 23:34

@samanthawashington

Don't test, just send her to nursery and spread whatever bug she has to others, whether it's covid or not.

It's the only sensible option according to some posters. What we all need is a bit more variety in our healthcare crisis.

Rosebel · 17/01/2021 23:36

Oh and don't feel like a shit mother either. These are difficult times and most of us are struggling.

middleager · 17/01/2021 23:47

As soon as my son had a temperature I booked a test. I didn't need any more prompting in times of Covid.
He was positive.

Khtchkn · 18/01/2021 00:12

Whenever our baby had a fever (3 times), the nursery wouldn’t allow him in till he proved the test was negative.

1st test - negative

2nd test - husband was positive, that means we all had it and needed to isolate. my son couldn’t go to nursery for 14 days (still paid £300 ). Even though he has no temperature and was completely normal we didn’t send him in

3rd test - had the worst fever so far, over 40 and had to call 111. Doctor said he might coronavirus, I definitely knew he didn’t as we literally recovered from it 2 weeks before. Send him in nursery once he got over his fever. It wasn’t coronavirus

Nanny0gg · 18/01/2021 00:18

@cactusdog

Ok ok I get it! I've booked for a test tomorrow.

I feel like the whole world has lost its mind!
No one else has any symptoms, the baby no longer has a temp and the baby is not the one going to nursery.

Thank you to the supportive comments.

Um. Look up 'Asymptomatic'

wanderlove · 18/01/2021 06:46

@cactusdog
I went to a walk in centre and the test wasn't too bad. She was struggling so I lay her down on the table and she just laid there quietly and I put the swab up her nose. Not pleasant but also no lasting trauma. Prob worse for me doing it then her. She was smiling and waving at the guy that collects the tests so all forgotten. Good luck. You can put your mind at rest once it's done.

juliastone · 18/01/2021 07:46

I don't think you need to test the baby, he's obviously teething and is feeling better after 2 days, actually by taking him to have the test you might risk that the baby get some other bug or covid itself (because people who go for a test are clearly the high risk group, most either have covid or some other virus unless they are taking the test for having had contact only), but the world has gone completely crazy, so...

Chouxbuncity · 18/01/2021 08:10

@juliastone

You sit in a car and have no contact with anyone. Testing kits are dropped through the car window with a litter picker type thing. Probably best to refrain from advising someone on something you don’t know anything about.

pelosi · 18/01/2021 08:51

I am exhausted form being up with baby

We have now had a massive row and I feel like a shot person and mother like everything I do is always wrong

I wonder if this is the real issue? Does DH do his equal share of parenting/housework?

TheSockMonster · 18/01/2021 09:26

@Khtchkn

Whenever our baby had a fever (3 times), the nursery wouldn’t allow him in till he proved the test was negative.

1st test - negative

2nd test - husband was positive, that means we all had it and needed to isolate. my son couldn’t go to nursery for 14 days (still paid £300 ). Even though he has no temperature and was completely normal we didn’t send him in

3rd test - had the worst fever so far, over 40 and had to call 111. Doctor said he might coronavirus, I definitely knew he didn’t as we literally recovered from it 2 weeks before. Send him in nursery once he got over his fever. It wasn’t coronavirus

Did your baby actually test positive at the same time as your husband?

Otherwise it does sound ever so much like the 40 degree fever he had a few weeks later was covid.

AgentJohnson · 18/01/2021 09:37

Unless your baby’s symptoms change for the worse, why bother putting them through the stress of a test when there’s no treatment for mild symptoms, just assume she has it and isolate accordingly. If you and your partner have genuinely not left the house and plan not to, then ride it.

Quartz2208 · 18/01/2021 09:41

Because potentially the nursery has an outbreak that they do need to be aware of an act accordingly on.

Khthckn 2 weeks later it sounded like he did get it then rather than the time your husband was positive

It is a pain but each chain that is broken is one step forward. Each outbreak that places are aware of and can shut accordingly

Doris86 · 18/01/2021 09:41

@AgentJohnson

Unless your baby’s symptoms change for the worse, why bother putting them through the stress of a test when there’s no treatment for mild symptoms, just assume she has it and isolate accordingly. If you and your partner have genuinely not left the house and plan not to, then ride it.

Bizarre logic.Why not just get the test done, instead of potentially needlessly isolating the whole family for 10 days?

GreenSlide · 18/01/2021 09:43

@Khtchkn

Whenever our baby had a fever (3 times), the nursery wouldn’t allow him in till he proved the test was negative.

1st test - negative

2nd test - husband was positive, that means we all had it and needed to isolate. my son couldn’t go to nursery for 14 days (still paid £300 ). Even though he has no temperature and was completely normal we didn’t send him in

3rd test - had the worst fever so far, over 40 and had to call 111. Doctor said he might coronavirus, I definitely knew he didn’t as we literally recovered from it 2 weeks before. Send him in nursery once he got over his fever. It wasn’t coronavirus

So your husband got coronavirus, then 14 days later your baby got the symptoms of coronavirus, and the doctor told you the baby probably had coronavirus. So you decided the baby...didn't have coronavirus and sent them into nursery

Notnt · 18/01/2021 09:48

Our baby hated the test, but he did have coronavirus, we all did. He was fine after the swab though, was just unpleasant at the time.
I don't know if I'd get him tested again if he had symptoms but if not, we would isolate, definitely wouldn't send him to nursery or go about our usual business.

Serin · 18/01/2021 10:04

Khtchkn
How can you live with your level of stupidity?

Rosebel · 18/01/2021 11:43

@Serin

Khtchkn How can you live with your level of stupidity?

It sounds like she had her son tested as she's written 3rd test and it wasn't Covid. Covid isn't the only thing that can give children a high temperature.

ZooKeeper19 · 18/01/2021 11:46

@Khtchkn what? If your husband had it and you had it then the baby has it. End of. Same scenario with us, we all had it, baby completely asymptomatic (not even fever!). I still tested him 16 days after the 1st of us adults tested positive and surprise surprise - the asymptomatic 1yo tested positive!

Super idiotic to send baby to nursery when all family is positive. Poor nannies, why don't people realise they can get it pass it on and people get ill and cannot go to work in the better case, or die, in the worst case.

Please realise what you are doing.

Agree with @Serin. Really stupid way to do things. Test. Always test. It's freaking free so why would you not test.