2 year old and 3 month old

[Mazzatron]

Hi just wondering how on Earth I'm meant to keep my 3 month old away from my covid positive 2 year old as advised by government guidelines.

I have to care for my toddler he tested positive yesterday and is really quite poorly with a temperature and a cough. Also I obviously need to care for my 3 month old.

My husband is at work 9-5, should I get him to take time off to help?

So far only my toddler has tested positive.

Has anyone else been in this situation and if so were you ok and what did you do?!

Help

Is your husband working from home? The whole family needs to isolate.
I don't think I would even try and keep them separate.

Your husband should not be at work…. He should be at home. Unless the rules have changed.

You can't in that situation. You should all be at home together and probably assume you are all likely to get it. Good hygiene is the best you can aim at I'd have thought!

In your situation I would get DH to take time off. I frankly wouldn't bother trying to keep kids apart but the extra stress of a sick toddler on top of a 3mo is too much. You may well get Covid from your toddler, the last thing you need is to go into it exhausted and stressed. No job is worth that!

Assuming your husband is working from home as you all need to be isolating, it would be best for him to take some time off to help.

It is unlikely that you will be able to keep your toddler that separate from your baby. You may just have to ride it out. Assuming you are both vaccinated the chances of you and your husband being ill are slim so you should be able to manage.

Sorry he does work from home but has a studio office in the garden and we don't usually see him at all

You can’t keep them apart. You crack on as normal and hope for the best

Thanks everyone. Yes it's true just got to crack on and hopefully DH will take a few days off to help. We are double jabbed. Just worried about my little baby as he's got no immune system. Toddler hardly got any either. This is the first time he's been ill since the pandemic began!

You don’t, you crack on. I didn’t even cross my mind to isolate from anyone in my household when I had it. I had a 3 year old & 9 month old at the time. We all continued as normal, shared snot, beds & kisses. My OH & I carried on as a normal couple too (I wasn’t particularly ill) & he never caught it, which really did surprise me. He tested twice & had no symptoms at all. He also did an an antibody test later on & had none.

My 9 month old got it, was like a heavy cold. She was grumpy for a couple days then fully recovered. My 3 year old also got it but was asymptomatic bar two days of extreme grumpy, teenage like behaviour!