If someone in your house has it are you mixing tomorrow?

[wingingit33]

In the house obviously. Are you all separating within the house or still going to mix together? Presents lunch etc?

I’m isolating away from the family since the start of the week. In a bedroom with an en-suite.

Went downstairs for forty minutes before with a mask and windows and doors open to do some Christmas Eve traditions. Now back upstairs.

We don’t want to risk the need to isolate for a further ten days is another member of the family catches it.

All negative so far.

Tomorrow will go down to see if Santa has been and then again to eat together.

I’m trying to isolate from DH and negative DC but am still cooking/cleaning bits around them. Positive DD is sharing with me so she’s not alone and DH is in the spare room. Mostly eating meals separately and masked up around the kitchen/hallway. It’s a pain as DH is more bored and complaining about it (sitting alone in evening) but he’d be worse if he couldn’t actually leave the house too.

DD is waiting on PCR results. She's only 9 so I wouldn't be keeping her isolated from the rest of us regardless. DS is 12 and when he tested positive he chose to stay in his room most of the time- but I wouldn't have allowed that at Christmas.

my eldest daughter has
it now way is she isolating id rather cancel Christmas!

3/4 of us had it months ago and the remaining person was exposed for 3-4 weeks and still didn’t get it.

He has it now. We’re not isolating him. We all managed covid before. Fuck it. So far everyone else is negative

@JSL52

It's madness to isolate when you've already all been in the same house all week. Do you sleep in the same bed as your husband?

Why is it mad? Surely once someone tests positive it makes sense to try and avoid anyone else catching it. Yes it could have already been transmitted to them but why risk it?

DD has tested positive - visitors have gone home, I’m not shutting her in her room for Christmas. She’s using a separate bathroom and is sleeping alone, the rest of us have all agreed it’ll be what it’ll be so we’ll be spending Christmas together

It's down to the individual families, everyone's circumstances are different. I fully understand families with young children not isolating, they have to accept that they might pick it up and isolation is then extended for them. In my case if I passed it on to my adult son his plans over the next week would be ruined so I'll keep myself isolated for his sake.

My DH tested positive on a LF this morning. Minimal symptoms. We've cancelled guests for tomorrow. I'm trying to stay away from him and we're wearing masks but no way do I want him in his room for the next 7 days. No chance. My DS age 10 had covid last month. Anyone know the chances of him getting it again so soon after having it?

Ok maybe I'll rephrase my op- wwyd in my situation? 30 weeks pregnant, double jabbed, very recently boosted (too recent for it to have had any benefit), had covid three months ago. 7yo positive lf. 11yo negative (had it same time as me before), husband negative. Being in late pregnancy would you isolate during Xmas day or what would you do?

@petalsandstars

I’m trying to isolate from DH and negative DC but am still cooking/cleaning bits around them. Positive DD is sharing with me so she’s not alone and DH is in the spare room. Mostly eating meals separately and masked up around the kitchen/hallway. It’s a pain as DH is more bored and complaining about it (sitting alone in evening) but he’d be worse if he couldn’t actually leave the house too.

If your DH is bored and complaining maybe suggest he does the cooking and cleaning, that will keep him busy. Why are you doing it when you're the one that's infected?

@wingingit33

Ok maybe I'll rephrase my op- wwyd in my situation? 30 weeks pregnant, double jabbed, very recently boosted (too recent for it to have had any benefit), had covid three months ago. 7yo positive lf. 11yo negative (had it same time as me before), husband negative. Being in late pregnancy would you isolate during Xmas day or what would you do?

I would probably watch the present opening from a distance, wearing a mask and eat in a separate area if possible, food prepared by DH. The rest of the day I would keep myself distanced with a mask on. Also would have windows open.

Just our anecdotal experience, none of us isolated with Delta and 3/4 got it.

None of isolated with omicron last week and 1/4 had it, none of the other three caught it.

I don't do sanitising. I was cook, cleaner, and general dogsbody and at the centre of the house all day and no one else got it.

It's not a done deal that everyone catches it.

I tested positive on Wednesday. Christmas is still going ahead, and my relatives still wish to visit.

@Acinaces wow have they had it recently? I don't know anyone (friends or family) who would mix knowingly with a covid case

@wingingit33

Ok maybe I'll rephrase my op- wwyd in my situation? 30 weeks pregnant, double jabbed, very recently boosted (too recent for it to have had any benefit), had covid three months ago. 7yo positive lf. 11yo negative (had it same time as me before), husband negative. Being in late pregnancy would you isolate during Xmas day or what would you do?

I would risk it providing it's a regular pregnancy and you haven't previously had premature births. If I was 36 weeks pregnant plus then I might have a different opinion.

@xyzandabc

One child (12) tested positive on Tuesday lft, weds pcr. No one else has had a positive lft yet. We haven't separated within the house at all. Eaten meals, put up decorations, played board games, just done everything as normal. As we will do tomorrow. If the rest of us get it, then we'll get it. None of us are vulnerable, though other 2 children are not vaccinated. I'm not confining a child to their room over Christmas.

Exactly the same here.

But I understand the OP feeling vulnerable if she's pregnant. Not sure of the answer OP.

I've had it twice and so did eldest DC. We just carried on as normal. None of us are vulnerable and isolating was hard enough without imposing more hardship on ourselves.

Dh has it, positive Lft wed and very symptomatic. He’s been locked away in our bedroom since. I might let him come out for presents if with the windows/doors open but I imagine the kids (12&13) won’t be keen so we’ll all be wearing masks and it won’t be for long!

We didn't isolate at all and 4/5 of us did get it, but no one in our family is vulnerable. I am usually dead against isolating within families, but your situation is tricky op - I think I would participate but try to stand back a bit.

DS12 is positive confirmed with a PCR earlier, we are all negative and no I have not been isolating him he feels bad enough about all the things we had to cancel the last three days bless him!!

My Ds tested positive last Sunday he has avoided us all all week but tomorrow I have told him he should be opening presents and having lunch with us

I would spend christmas with my family no way would I not spend christmas with my children unless I was classed as CEV. . I'm pregnant & vaccinated I don't see myself at vulnerable at all 🤷🏼‍♀️ but I suppose if that's how you feel you should do what feels best for you.
Pregnancy isn't an illness.

@sunsshineshowerss good for you but you haven't mentioned anyone in your household being positive which is the whole point of this thread. I'm pregnant but my daughter is positive. As I'm sure you know contracting covid in the third trimester is potentially dangerous so yes I'm isolating. I watched my kids open presents, all wearing masks, across the other side of our large extension. The rest of the time I've kept myself away.

2 of us have it, 3 don’t. We’re not isolating from each other at all.
None of us are pregnant though, that might change things.