Covid anxiety for my DD

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Now that everyone is getting vaccinated.. I am noticing my anxiety shifting more and more towards my daughter. She's almost 1 and a half. I'm anxious about her catching covid from unvaccinated or vaccinated people. But it's silly right, most children are fine if they get covid. Statistically the flu is worse for them I think.

It's tough because we've been so cooped up since she was basically born. We weren't able to go out and see many people. Now that we can and she needs to, I'm struggling with it. I would even like to send her to nursery a few days a week, but I'm quite worried still.

Struggling with these feelings. Does anyone else feel the same or have words of advice ?

I empathise and have similar worries for my three year old. I’m a SAHM and we just started her in nursery when covid hit so I took her out as a world of distancing and seeing people masked was far away from the social benefits of nursery that I wanted for her.

Now I am thinking of putting her back in but I feel so bad that she is asking why she isn’t getting a vaccine as she hears adults around her and I’ve tried to ease her worry that children aren’t affected and tried to explain that they sometimes only have a runny nose or cough and that’s it. But I think it will take some convincing as she has had a year of hearing about washing hands and distancing and why we can’t do so many things, that it’s re educating. At least at a year and half, your little one won’t realise what is going on.

As I have felt worried, I have kept her circle small and have now started mixing outdoors to help her and me, as so many of us have spent a year hardly seeing anyone other than support bubbles. This is working well and hoping to start small and keep going and hopefully nursery in the summer term.

Thank you @NLM20. I feel better knowing others feel similarly. I hope slowly you start feeling better and it must be even harder with a child who actually understands what's going on. Mine has no idea.

I really feel for first time mums, it must have been so hard for you. I had a baby in March 2020 but my second & I’m so grateful she was. I’ve honestly not had time to worry. Juggling a two year old & newborn from March - June took up everything I had & battered my MH really. When nurseries re-opened in June, I cried with relief. My eldest was the first kid back in the door 😂 and from then onwards, I accepted a level of risk to my then 4 months old. My DD went back to nursery, went back to gym class, went back to ballet class. We started up baby groups through summer. Met friends & family. Had a holiday with my in-laws. There was ‘risks’ all over the place but I’d grown up accept them & not think about them 24/7. I remember the first two days DD1 came back from nursery, I changed her clothes, immediately washed them,. Washed her. At the end of week two, I did nothing at all. She came home, stayed in her clothes until regular bath time & her clothes went in the wash basket. Once you do these things, you realise it’s completely fine & your child won’t immediately catch covid! It becomes normal again. You just have to push yourself slowly back to doing them!

DD2 actually caught covid at 8 months, we moved house & we caught it from the removal men! 🤦🏼‍♀️ She was fine, it was like a heavy cold. I would never have suspected it was covid if I hadn’t had symptoms such as loss of taste that prompted me to test.