C section and Covid test, currently Covid positive!

[KennedyD22]

Hi,

I'm 35 weeks pregnant at the moment and have Covid Luckily my symptoms are okay, manageable by resting in bed all day (I'm super bored). I'm on day 5.

I'm having a c section likely when I am 37 or 38 weeks as my baby is small for gestational age - I've had weekly monitoring since 28 weeks.

The hospital have said I'll be having my Covid test a couple days before the c section. My worry is that apparently some people test positive on PCR up to 90 days after infection and this is why they do not recommend doing a PCR test if you've had Covid in the last 90 days.

Has anyone had experience with positive Covid in the few weeks before birth? Did they still test you? My worry is I could test positive before my c section from this infection now, and really worried this could mean my partner will miss the birth! He's unvaccinated so if I am positive he has to isolate? Of course he's isolating now for 10 days anyway.

Thanks in advance an extremely stressed and worried pregnant Mumma with Covid here

I’m due to get induced this weekend so not quite the same but I also needed to get a PCR test ahead of it and I too managed to catch Covid last week. I called the Labour ward and they advised that I shouldn’t take another PCR test as like you say there’s a high chance it would be positive. Instead I should ride out isolation, do the lateral flows on days 6 and 7 (I’m in Wales, I think the rules are different elsewhere) and then take another lateral flow test on the day of the induction. As long as that is negative then it’s business as usual. My husband has had both doses of the vaccine plus the booster so even if I was still isolating he’d still have been able to be my birth partner. I’d ring the Labour ward or wherever you go for the c section to confirm the situation at your hospital. Good luck!