Removing child from nursery

[Wardenmammy]

Hello!

I'm 31 weeks pregnant, have an 8 month old and a 2 year old.

My two year old has been attending nursery since March 20th. Since then she has brought a new cold home with her every week, sickness bugs and various other viruses. Two weeks ago she came into direct contact with a child with covid (who's parents sent her in with symptoms despite being aware it could be covid, doing a test and not waiting for the results before sending her in). In this time my daughter became sick again, we tested her and it came back negative. We now all have this cold as well and it's affecting me very badly, in fact I gained a chest infection from the last one that was only getting better after 6 weeks. Now I'm back at step one with an horrific cough, which makes me sick in the evenings.

To be honest I don't think I can handle being sick anymore this far into pregnancy - should I pull her out?

Only you will know what works best for you.

I think with two babies, I would want to take any help I can get with occupying my 2 year old.
I would also expect that her immune system will have built up as she has spent time with other children and she will pick up fewer bugs in the future than she has done so far.

It's up to you - you can. You can put her in a different nursery or find alternative childcare or have her home with you.
However this is the reality of children attending any kind of child or school setting - they bring home everything! They need to to build up their immune systems, but yes it's a pain for everyone to keep getting ill & in the current situation, much harder with testing & isolating etc.
Because of the lockdowns, many children are only now coming into contact with these minor viruses & their immune systems aren't prepared for them.
So ultimately this will happen whenever & wherever you send your children as they get older. It's a PITA but it pretty normal.

Remember, if you keep her away from other children now, then she will go through the same at whatever point you decide to either put her back in Nursery, or when she starts school.
As purplesquirrel says, a lot of children just haven't had the contact with other children they normally would due to lockdowns, so it is more likely than ever they will pick things up when they start Nursery.

Thanks for the responses so far, just to clear up - I'm fully aware this is normal but my immune system whilst heavily pregnant with my third baby cannot handle constant chest infections from minor colds. My toddler deals with them fine and is usually better within 3-5 days, same with my 8 month old. But I carry them for weeks and struggle to see a GP about it because they want me to do constant covid tests whenever my daughter brings another cold home