Are you sending your little ones to nursery this week?

[cannonball8726]

27 weeks pregnant and not sure what to do! We could take leave to manage childcare.

Yes, definitely! I'm a teacher and I'm not sure how I made it to the end of term without collapsing from tiredness. I need a break and being at home with a grumpy threenager and a baby who's teething like it's going out of fashion is anything but a break. Our Christmas plans aren't super special so if we do catch COVID this week we will just stay home and celebrate Christmas the four of us

Is your concern getting COVID at all, or getting COVID and it ruining your Christmas plans? Are you vaccinated?

I am not BUT he only goes once a week until Christmas and we've been ill with colds and vomiting bugs since he started in October. We need a break and some semi-decent sleep... I really don't want to be ill over Christmas. Just in the middle of a horrendous cold and if we can shake it in the next few days I will be so happy! We cancelled all our plans as I'm beat. Not about covid specifically, I don't want anything at all, but to get covid now would be a shocker and I'm not prepared to risk Christmas. Our situation is pretty flexible though. If I had to take leave I think I'd risk it, personally x

Yes, we need to work and have one day off to finish sorting Christmas stuff out. I know it's a risk he'll get Covid, but I just can't work with him at home - he's been ill so much this term and I'm already behind because of it.

Fingers firmly crossed we'll escape. He's in four days. I assume the room will be quiet so hopefully less risk. I won't be at all surprised if we end up I'll over Christmas though.

Yes!! I'm a teacher and I've just had covid actually. I can't see how my kids are at any more risk in nursery than I was in whole-school assemblies and carol services (yea, still went ahead!!) so they're going in for the next 3 days... I really need a break!!

Yes as we need to work. It also closes for 2 weeks from Thursday, and I don’t want her to be off 3+ weeks as she will drive me insane it’s too much disruption to the usual routine.

@notthissticky
Vaccinated and had my booster about six weeks ago. Seeing parents and in laws over Christmas. Plus pregnancy making me nervous. I hate this!

Yes. Both me and DH have now finished for Christmas but DS aged 2 will still go for at least 2 days. He normally goes 3 days a week and adores it so he's already going to find being off over Christmas difficult. He's very much a creature of routine so it's kinder in my opinion to keep it as consistent for him as possible.

No. Have a parents trekking to us from halfway across the world on Xmas eve who’s never met my nearly 2 year old.

The stakes are absolutely massive. She’s been withdrawn from FT nursery last week same time as her brother finished infant school. We’ll have kicked ourselves down for 8 days by the time mum hopefully gets here.

Yes anything from travel regs to cardiac arrest can scupper this visit but it won’t be nursery …

Not kicked. Locked.

[quote cannonball8726]@notthissticky
Vaccinated and had my booster about six weeks ago. Seeing parents and in laws over Christmas. Plus pregnancy making me nervous. I hate this![/quote]
Oh that's great that you're all vaxxed and boostered up, that should really help if you do end up infected!

You have my sympathies, I was in your position last Christmas (though a bit further along). We did keep DS off in the week before Christmas, but really only because the in-laws asked us to, as they didn't want to catch COVID off him at Christmas he was also generally a much more pleasant child until age 2.5 . I honestly don't understand how I wasn't a complete nervous wreck about COVID when pregnant, I guess it seemed far less prevalent a year ago, as the first mutant variants had only just begun to pop up🤷‍♀️

I’m pretty sure my son got it at nursery last week. He’s been poorly but not too bad bless him, I’m 17 wks pregnant and double jabbed. The day I had my booster I tested positive (long boring story) and man I feel so ill. It’s a bloody horrible illness!! X

You're at least a week too late to worry about it now. Anyone tests positive that's you till 29th December (well to be fair into by the time you get PCR results). Friends due to end SI on Tuesday from daughters positive test but mums just tested positive so another 10 days.

I'm not but I pulled her out on Monday. Big nursery with upwards of 15 cases and rising each day, and I didn't want to risk spending Christmas ill or isolating. She goes 3.5 days a week and DH and I both work full time but from home and we've been juggling her between us with some family help.

Yes. DS’s nursery have slapped cheek and hand foot and mouth going round. I’m pregnant and more concerned about catching those than covid but I’d never stop DS going to nursery if he’s not ill. He gets a lot out of it and I can’t take any more time off work. Don’t even know if they have covid going round now - don’t think they tell us anymore and I wouldn’t want to know.