Having partners child to the home whilst I'm pregnant

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Not sure if there may be another thread on this and I'm sure everyone is tired of this corona, however since the announcement that pregnant women are now hugh risk, I've been told by work to work from home and the nurse today advised to stay indoors unless I have to leave, just to err on the side of caution.
Although this is not a problem for me to stay at home, my partner has a 5 year old that comes to us every weekend and is still attending school. His mother has already made it clear she feels he is now going to be left out due to the baby and doesn't seem happy about me being pregnant. So the advice I need is what do we do with the 5 year old. Do we stop him coming over until this is all sorted, or am I just being stupid. I really don't know what to do in the situation as I don't want to stop him seeing us and cause problems with his mother, but then I don't want to put my unborn baby at risk either. Any advise??

I think you have to consider them your child. It is your partners child.

If they were yours you wouldn't be able to banish them until everything is resolved, it could be months.

Honestly I think pregnant women were just put in the high risk category for the government to cover all bases. But if you really feel you can't see your stepdaughter, is there somewhere else your husband can go to see her? Or can you stay elsewhere while she is there and get your husband to do a deep clean before you get back. I don't this you can expect your stepdaughter not to see her parent for 12 weeks.

If you had an older child of your own who lived with you, you would have to deal with this same issue - what do you think you would have done if this was the case?

It must be scary. Just tell the child everyone has to be more careful atm and blow kisses instead of actual touching and keep your distance as much as you can. It’s a scary time for everyone and your partner and his child need to see each other

This is what I'm in such limbo, I can't have him not seeing us for 12 weeks. I do see him very much as my child and part of the family. If he was living with us all the time, I would just have him be off school to minimise the risk to us all. Tbh I'm hoping they just close the schools and he can stay here with us while his mum works until everything settles.