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1yo tested positive - scared

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Worriedmum40284 · 10/09/2021 02:48

My 1yo just tested positive for Covid. I'm really scared. So many thoughts keep running through my head and I can't sleep.

What if he gets really poorly or has long term damage? What if me and DH get it and can't look after our DC? Feels inevitable that his sibling will get it too. Feel so bad for not being able to protect them both.

Then I feel so guilty about potentially passing it on to people before his symptoms started Sad

And no idea how we're gonna manage with work etc. Or keeping him happy at home for 10 days, he loves to be outside.

Sorry for the wallow, guess things always feel more bleak in the middle of the night.

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TreaslakeandBack · 10/09/2021 03:16

He’s very unlikely to get very unwell at that age, same with your other DC. Lots of fluids and some calpol as needed.
Presumably you and your DH are double jabbed? You are likely to be ok too. Prepare now- book a couple of online delivery slots and get some easy food in. You will still be able to care for DC but lots of TV!
Work know people will catch it and have to self isolate.

princessbananahammock252 · 10/09/2021 03:40

I can understand your feeling like this right now, I was like this 7 days ago when my 7 month old baby tested positive. Then my 4 years old, and then me. And this was all after my husband tested positive and was out of action for 4-5 days. What I can say, from my experience, is that the kids should hopefully be fine. Mine were both fine, they had the odd raised temperature but otherwise have been themselves and unaffected. Bored yes, but we are getting through that. The staggered self isolation has been a pain as we all got it a few days after the other, however I'm kinda glad it's done now. I also wasn't affected so badly. I had what felt like a bad cold with loss of smell and taste, and I'm on the road to recovery, after a day of feeling a little bunged up.

I know your experience maybe different, you have genuine worries, but I hope hearing how it went for us will make you feel a little better.

Our biggest worry now is how my daughter and I are doing to get through the next week as we are so bored of being at home! My husband is out of isolation and is a free man now; and the baby's isolation ends on Saturday!

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Worriedmum40284 · 10/09/2021 03:59

Thank you both for your kind responses. I'm glad you're all doing ok @princessbananahammock252. Can I ask what the gap was between your symptoms starting after each other? Did your DC have any symptoms or asymptomatic.

We are both double jabbed so fingers crossed that helps.

Older DS should be at school tomorrow, feels wrong to send him but know I'm meant to. Should he have a PCR test first?

DS has a cough and his nose has started steaming today. No temp as of yet.

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Worriedmum40284 · 10/09/2021 04:21

His nose is streaming, not steaming Confused

Cough much worse at night, poor little thing. He's struggling to sleep which isn't great as it's obviously the best thing for him.

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princessbananahammock252 · 10/09/2021 05:38

So my husbands symptoms started on a Saturday morning; 3 days after exposure. He got a positive result straight away. Then the baby had a couple of instances of high temp the following Friday. I took him for a test that day and he came back positive the following day. Then I woke up feeling like I was getting a cold on Monday, and my daughter was coughing every now and again, and sneezing that same morning on the way to the test centre (nothing after the test though) and we both came back positive Tuesday gone. So over the span of almost 2 weeks we've tested positive after some symptoms.

The double vaccinations have definitely helped. I reckon we would've been much worse without.

Hope you've both managed to get some sleep since posting OP.

SpringRainbow · 10/09/2021 05:49

@Worriedmum40284 if he has a cough then that alone means he should get a test.

Children are mostly asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms.

Most who are double jabbed with no other risk factors also get mild symptoms.

You should all be fine, just take it easy and do what you need to get through this.

HungryHippo11 · 10/09/2021 06:12

Please please don't worry. My 1 year old and 4 year old both had it. It was no worse than your average cold. DH and I, both vaccinated, didn't catch it from them.

For children covid really is not a big danger. Try to think back to how you would have felt if your baby had a bad cold and it was 2019, before covid existed. Probably something like "aw poor little thing, I'll give him.some calpol and he will be fine in a few days". This really is all their is to it for little kids

If it helps, in the first 12 months of the pandemic only 12 deaths occurred in children under 10. Compared to about 90,000 adults.

Caspianberg · 10/09/2021 06:28

Is there any chance you have a garden?

Otherwise, I’m getting my 1 year old a play tent and tunnel for Xmas, I think he will love it. Could you Amazon something like that early for 1 year old to be entertained in something new the next week?

HopeYourHighHorseBucks · 10/09/2021 06:37

Try not to panic as they are tough little things.

My 1 year old has it and if it werent for testing the whole household (both Me DP and baby have it, DC1 hasn't caught it yet) I would have put it down to teething at first. A bit grouchy and clingy for the first day, now has a slight cough but is back to normal routine. Bounced back very quick. Keep fluids up and lots of rest and you all will be fine.

Payproblems · 10/09/2021 07:22

Sending my sympathy op, my dd has it and seems OK but the stress of waiting to be struck down is awful!

Mindymomo · 10/09/2021 07:28

It would be advisable to keep older DS off school and get a test, but it’s only advice, same as you and your partner don’t have to isolate, but again advice is to get tested as well.

Hope your little one gets better soon.

Skinnyankles · 10/09/2021 07:28

My children have just finished their isolation with it. They really were not unwell very much at all. Myself and dh didn't get it and we didn't/couldn't isolate from them.

I'm not minimising covid as it's so serious for many people. We all went down with a diarrhoea and vomiting bug a couple of years ago and that was much worse for us as a family.

GAW19 · 10/09/2021 07:33

My 18mo tested positive in January.
All she had was a temp for an hour and was a little bit 'ratty' for a few days. My partner had 'wobbly' legs for an evening.
I was 31 weeks pregnant and ended up in hospital for a week on oxygen and a million other things.
I'm sure they'll be okay op Thanks

chickendipperdipper · 10/09/2021 07:38

My 1 year old caught it and 12 weeks later she is still dealing with the repercussions of it which they now think is going to be a long term condition for her - she has previously not had any illnesses so she decided to go whole hog and get Covid !

Covid wasnt too bad, but the after effects have been for her.

Don't want to scare you but giving you my experience, no one else caught it from her and she wasn't around who tested positive- so we have no idea how she got it.

Lsjdjfjdh · 10/09/2021 07:38

Please try not to worry. My DH and I both had it (my symptoms started 3 days after his) and I'm assuming my 1 year old had it although back then you couldn't test in under 5s. I noticed no difference in her apart from the odd cough at night. If we handy lost our taste and smell I'd have just thought I'd had a little one day cold and don't think I'd have even thought DS was unwell.

NightmareLoon · 10/09/2021 07:54

I'm sure your school would appreciate it if you kept DS off while you get/wait for your PCR test.

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Worriedmum40284 · 10/09/2021 10:48

Thanks @princessbananahammock252. Sounds like we might end up isolating for a while! I managed to get a bit of sleep early morning. Just kept waking up feeling really emotional.

Feeling a bit more positive now it's sunk in and I've read all of your experiences. Hopefully DH and I manage to avoid it or get mild symptoms due to vaccines so we can take care of the little ones.

Annoyingly had a food delivery yesterday before we knew - would have gone for more quick meals and treats if I'd have known. Never mind.

Have spent the morning letting anyone we say recently know and test & trace have called. Really hoping we haven't passed it on before his symptoms started, would feel so awful.

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Worriedmum40284 · 10/09/2021 10:50

@SpringRainbow sorry, I wasn't very clean in my panicked state last night. My younger son had the cough and he's tested positive. Older son is totally symptom free.

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Worriedmum40284 · 10/09/2021 10:53

@HungryHippo11

Please please don't worry. My 1 year old and 4 year old both had it. It was no worse than your average cold. DH and I, both vaccinated, didn't catch it from them.

For children covid really is not a big danger. Try to think back to how you would have felt if your baby had a bad cold and it was 2019, before covid existed. Probably something like "aw poor little thing, I'll give him.some calpol and he will be fine in a few days". This really is all their is to it for little kids

If it helps, in the first 12 months of the pandemic only 12 deaths occurred in children under 10. Compared to about 90,000 adults.

This is so true, thank you. Someone mentioned teething, he also has 4 big teeth coming through so I put the cough down to excess dribble from that to start with.

Thanks all for your well wishes and advice. We do have a garden so will get him out there when he seems up to it.

@chickendipperdipper really sorry to hear about your DD, how horrid. I hope she's ok (and you too) Flowers

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ittakes2 · 10/09/2021 15:24

I am sorry your child is unwell. I read somewhere children cope better with covid as their immune systems are always primed to deal with new viruses. As you can imagine children all experience virus for the first time as children - their first cold, their first flu etc - whereas adults have had years of expose to 'firsts'.

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Worriedmum40284 · 10/09/2021 18:45

Thanks ittakes2. He's doing ok, coughing a lot and very snotty. Quite upset too. Hopefully he picks up soon.

Also feel like I'm not doing enough to protect my older son but not sure what I can do, our house isn't big enough to keep them apart and not sure how we'd manage it. Feeling lots of guilt.

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BoomChicka · 10/09/2021 19:59

Get the word "protect" out of your head. You don't protect them from coughs and colds, or chicken pox, or nits at school, these things spread like wildfire. You sound extremely anxious and the kids will pick up on that. Try to remember illness existed before 2020 and they will continue to exist forever.

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Worriedmum40284 · 10/09/2021 22:08

Fair point BoomChicka. I am feeling anxious but trying to save that for the evenings when they're in bed. Appreciate it's hard to separate though.

I am trying to think positively and read the experiences above to put things in perspective. But then I'll read or hear something worrying and of course presume that's what will happen to us.

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BoomChicka · 10/09/2021 22:35

Flowers I read this board a lot too, oddly it has the opposite effect on me and keeps me rational (IMO) Grin. The vast vast majority of children will be mildly ill or have no symptoms, try not to worry.

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