Covid, schools, 12 days till due date

[Tinydancer321]

Wow isn’t it stressful 😂. I know Covid is a matter of time, but I want that time to be after baby….. (I don’t want to give birth on my own
Which will happen if any of us catch Covid).
Some parents at the school tested positive but of course the kids can still go to school and only need tests if they have symptoms 🤦🏼‍♀️.
I just want my baby here now and safe.
I’m double vaccinated (that was a difficult decision). I feel no safer 🤦🏼‍♀️😂.
I also have my nans funeral in 9 days.
The head has agreed that I can take my child out if a child tests positive but of course it’s the parents 🤦🏼‍♀️.

The household of positive covid cases should still be having a PCR even if they have no symptoms...

@SouthwestSis well supposedly not in our school or the parents are not . Apparently they only ask you to you don’t have too. You only have to is ver 18 and single jabbed or not at all.

It's government advice, it's not down to your school to decide www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/when-to-self-isolate-and-what-to-do/

I’m not due until November but am stressing already. I feel more worried now then ever before.

And, what happens if one of our children has it? Can we still attend our appointments?

If double jabbed or under 18 then household contacts don't need to self isolate whilst their PCR is pending, but the guidance is still very much that they should get a PCR done asap.

It's also just common sense for an infection where a third of people infected show no symptoms

Sadly it’s not come across that way.
@Bennetgirl I really feel for you. September has been on mind for ages. We actually didn’t mix in the holidays. I knew I had 3 more weeks when back at school, but I really hoped the numbers wouldn’t be so high. In both my kids schools there has been lots of positives. I know it’s about learning to live with it. However being pregnant and this is a really hard time (I find a lot of people who had their babies in the first part of Covid have no sympathy or care either abs act like I’m being a loon) like the government say it’s safe now 🤷🏼‍♀️.
I assume if our child is positive as long as we have a partner and double vaccinated we can go to our appointments (obv is we are not positive). My worry is the birth now. I have never wanted a baby out so much just so I can stop worrying I will catch Covid before baby is here.
I don’t think the idea is to stop spread in school and I’m
Pretty sure the government wants its to spread now in school to make winter easier.
Mentally I’m struggling it’s building massive anxiety .

@SouthwestSis sadly it’s the wording “you should” not you have too. :/

Also you can go in school while waiting the test results

One of my worries is dp getting it and missing the birth 🥲 Its rubbish. Let alone me with my squished lungs.

I’ll be 38 weeks at the end of half term. If it’s really awful then I might pull them out for a few weeks.

They had a fair few cases picked up last week with the lfts in school. Those kids had already been in school for a day and a half. Unfortunately some parents aren’t testing at all. We’re going every other day x

I’m a teacher and for that amount of time I’d 100% be taking them out. Where I live covid cases have shot up since schools went back. I’m off on maternity but a teacher at my school is in a class where 9 children have tested positive one after another. She’s taken multiple lateral flow tests and all have come back negative but after the 9th child was positive she decided enough was enough and just broke the rules and booked a PCR test. Sure enough she was positive too 🤦🏼‍♀️ It’s such a stupid system with these news rules and just causing so many more people to catch it!

@sarah13xx thank you your answer means a lot.
I have always wanted my kids to go to school abs taken school very seriously even with the home schooling. But I think I’m going to call them in sick. I have never done it before. But I can’t relax, I don’t know how many kids have got it as face it children don’t have symptoms. We have kept so safe all holiday I really feel for my kids. After I understand the risks but I just want to get past having the baby.

@Bennetgirl we have been really put into a difficult position 😢

Mine were too young for school when I had my latest addition a few weeks ago, but in your position I wouldn’t think twice about taking them out. The worry and stress is just not worth it!!!

I'd be taking them out too, it's really hard thinking you might have to go and give birth alone. I'm toying with taking DD out of nursery for a week or two before, I'm going in for induction at the end of the month. DP has gone back to work ages ago but he can still WFH if he wants so will be having that chat with him after our next appointment too...

I also would be pulling them out.

Thanks girls. Honesty though it was me, no one seems to understand my worry (non pregnant).

I’m waiting to be induced with my first so don’t have kids (yet- hopefully today! 😂) but I would 100% take them out for a short time

You’ll still be allowed to appointments if you test positive but your DH won’t if he does :/

We both came into contact with a positive case a couple of weeks ago (in hospital! We hadn’t been out anywhere since end of June!) and had to isolate and it was so stressful at the time. Thankfully all ok now and out of isolation

I sympathise with anyone in your situation OP. It’s a tough balance between getting the world back to “normal” and niche situations like this and I think you just need to do whatever feels comfortable to you and your family.

When you look back, 2 weeks off school will be nothing compared to DH missing the birth

Good luck xx

Thanks I have kept them off and said they have a sore throat.
I can’t take this anxiety. Youngest is also full of cold (no cough nor no temp and can still smell she has autism so always complaining of smells).
I’m making us do lateral flows daily though 😂🤦🏼‍♀️. Been up most the night. I feel sick about it all. Imagine all that coughing when your bits are broken (my fourth and always had a bad time down there). Oh god 🤦🏼‍♀️