Coronavirus and pregnancy?

[Anonymousmummy12345]

So I'll be 34 weeks pregnant Friday and I've not been overly concerned about the whole coronavirus till they said pregnant people were classed as at risk on the news yesterday. That and I also have Asthma making me worry more as I'm in 2 of the risk groups.
So the problem is I have 2 toddlers that both attend nursery and love it, do I continue taking them or should I take them out as you bump into many other parents at the nursery, and then theres the risk of my children catching something and bringing it home.
Then theres also the concern that we have my partners children 50% of the time, which again I thought nothing of, but now their mum has them off school for 2 weeks because they have coughs, I'm pretty sure it's nothing serious and just a cold causing the cough, but what if it is serious and we are due to have them for 5 days from tomorrow.
I tried talking to my partner about it and he just got offended, it's not like I don't want us to have his children but is moving quarantined from school children into a pregnant asthmatic woman's house for 5 days a clever idea? It just worries me, he says well they had the cold last weekend when they were here so you know it's just that, but we don't know anything, theres no advice on these things. I mean I'd love something from my midwife advising me on things I should do, at least then I'd have clarifications and feel more in the know, but the lack of knowing makes me uncomfortable and worry about what I should be doing in these situations.

Any advice would be great.

I understand your concern. Two children in isolation should be kept in isolation, not moved from one house to another it defeats the object. If I were you I'd probably keep the children off nursery and isolate yourself as much as possible to limit potential exposure.

See I tried to say that, but he's having none of it. He takes it as offence like I just want to get rid of his children but it's not that at all.

I understand it's his children and he wants them as usual but could they cause me and our unborn baby to become really ill with this life threatening illness? Is it worth it?

Any thing I say he just says I'm over reacting. And he has to have his children there's a court order in place giving him shared custody bla bla bla. I'm not trying to cause a war with my partner or push his children away, I just don't want anything to happen to my unborn baby. At the same time my 2 children that are already here need their mum. Their biological dad passed away and if anything were to happen to me they'd be orphans, he doesn't have these worries but my babies need to be put first, and if I'm at risk I should be being extra careful for them and bumpy surely? I'm just so confused:(

If your partner's children have coughs they should be in isolation, not coming to yours.

The advice about pregnant women is because they don't yet have any data on the effects of catching the virus in the first two trimesters, because it's so new. They haven't found any specific problems yet, they're being cautious.

Everybody should be stopping mixing with others and moving around as much as they can. I wouldn't be sending my children to nursery unless I absolutely had to.

Worst case scenario, the coughing children come to you, you catch it and pass it to your MW who then passes it to women in earlier pregnancy and it turns out to cause serious issues like zika virus.

www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/guidelines/coronavirus-pregnancy/covid-19-virus-infection-and-pregnancy/