COVID / ELCS

[Amz6219]

I am booked in for ELCS next week and have preop two days before where I need to have a PCR test

I have managed to avoid COVID so far and am double jabbed (know that wouldn't stop me getting it though), but my anxiety is taking over and I am imagining that I am going to get it in the next 7 days!

Hopefully not, BUT if I were to contract it within the next week and have a positive PCR what would happen with the ELCS? Has anyone had COVID and ELCS?

Sorry for such an anxious & pessimistic post! :-/

I had an ELCS last Wednesday. I was told when they did my covid test on the Monday that if I was positive I’d still have my section. I’d have to wait in my car until my operation time. They were a bit vague about whether my husband would be allowed in for the surgery but said he wouldn’t be allowed to stay after my hour or so in the recovery ward.

Eugh thanks @RecklessBlackberries, that wouldn't be great would it just sitting in the car :(

Did your husband have PCR or just you?

Oh and congratulations!! Hope it went well :)

Sorry for the delay @Amz6219 - thank you for the well wishes, everything went great thanks.

my husband didn’t have to take any covid related tests. I was surprised, but the nurse said he isn’t their patient so they can’t really demand anything from him and “patient gets birth partner” is a priority when he’s unlikely to have covid if I didn’t.

Lock yourself in a cupboard until the pre-op 🤣 I was completely paranoid about mine and basically didn’t see a soul for weeks before it (just in case I went early and ended up testing positive). My main fear was that I wouldn’t be allowed my c-section so theyd either push it back a week and I’d then go into labour naturally or if I arrived in labour they’d say they couldn’t put all those staff at risk so I’d have to go naturally with just one midwife. Labour was my biggest fear on earth so I’d have lived in a glass box for the entire 9 months to avoid it if need be! Luckily I was negative. I asked when my partner should take his lateral flow test (as these were mentioned on the hospital guidance online for visitors). The midwife actually advised him not to take one in case it came back with a false positive and he missed the birth! Slightly strange advice I thought 🙈 I did ask what would have happened if I was positive and they just said I’d be in a private room before/after surgery and the theatre staff would do the c-section as normal but would wear extra ppe. I don’t think my partner would have been allowed in though, so that’s the only bad bit.

I’m sure you’ll be fine and itl be negative 😊

Definitely doing that @sarah13xx, have said my 3.5yo will not be going to nursery now until afterwards but they're such lurgy carriers I'm worried he will pick something up from somewhere and pass it on!

Can't keep him in the house for a week but will just have to go for walks rather than on the park etc :-/

It'd be just my luck to go so long without and then get it days before ELCS, fingers crossed it's just my anxiety intrusive thoughts wreaking havoc and won't actually be the case! x