DS (16 months) is about to go to nursery next month. How likely is it that he will get covid from other kids and staff at the nursery?

[mjone]

Is it possible for him to avoid the infection, or every kid has already got it or will have to get it eventually?

DD (13months) has been at nursery for 3 months and not caught covid yet. We took her out for 2 weeks to have some family holiday and she caught it from DH who got it at work. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Definitely not a given that it will be caught at nursery specifically but it is so rife everywhere that it is seeming tricky to avoid at the minute.

My DS has been at nursery since Sept 2020. Covid has gone round a few times but he's never caught it (he did get it from his dad who picked it up in the pub though!). Our nursery hasn't actually had a Covid case for months and months now and all the teachers still test regularly so it's not through lack of testing.

You Can get covid anywhere and everywhere, there’s no avoiding it 🤷‍♀️

My one year old daughter was in nursery august 2020 for one year and never caught it and has been in the childminders for one year and still not caught it!

Don't worry about x

How on earth do we know? 😂

About 89.65435% likely in a Monday and Wednesday and 54.789% the other days.

Yeah, a stupid answer to a stupid question!

DS hasn't caught covid at nursery and he's been there all the way through the pandemic. The only time he's caught it (as did DH and I) was from DD when it swept through her class at school.

Try not to worry OP. ♥️♥️ This is going to sound really stupid but due to how much scaremongering that has gone on, I was truly amazed at how “normal” covid actually was. It truly is like a cold. I am not dismissing how many people died from it, I am incredibly thankful to the vaccines and the fact that I’m still reasonably young and strong (and I say that as someone who is considered vulnerable). Children usually get it so mildly. It’s like with anything else, the elderly get hit the worst. If you think about it, a normal cold takes a very long time for the elderly to get rid of. Kids. Well, they might get a sniffle and a cough and a high temperature for a day or so, and then it’s over. It’s weird how psychological this disease is as well. Until I knew it was COVID I had a slight sniffle and felt a bit tired. The second those double lines popped up on the test I started feeling SICK. You know like when you first discover you’re pregnant and the second you know you suddenly have symptoms? That’s my experience of covid, twice. Just don’t test, live your life to the full and enjoy. There will be many bugs coming into your house with your child mingling with a lot of others. Covid is no different. ♥️

DD has been at nursery since the pandemic began and we've never knowingly had it.

My kids have been in school throughout the pandemic - often with more than 50% of the class off with it at any given time. Neither have caught it (they're not vaccinated).

Based on my experience of nurseries, your dc and then subsequently anyone else living in the house are approx. 100% likely to get Covid at least at some point during their time at nursery, but that it will be the least of your worries. Covid was like a barely noticeable cold, whereas chicken pox, hand foot and mouth, slapped cheek, scarlet fever(!), norovirus, tonsillitis and the never ending stream of unidentifiable cold-like viruses were all Medieval plague levels of awfulness I hadn't prepared myself for. Nursery bugs are the worst 🤮

He’ll probably get it at some point. Nurseries and not the place to go to if you want to avoid illness, viruses fly round. We got constant colds (could have been covid, who knows), for the first few months and then they spread out a bit. There’s also no policy for covid testing now in our nursery.