Pregnant and Covid

[Mightbeokmightnot]

I’m currently 16 weeks pregnant and isolating because I caught covid at work (secondary school teacher).

I’d had a risk assessment done (which obviously didn’t work very well given I still caught covid). I’ve luckily not been too ill with it and I’m sure this will be down to being fully vaccinated and boosted.

However, given I managed to catch covid despite all the extra ‘measures’ they’d put in place to protect me (which were token tbh), I’m now feeling anxious about potentially having to be teaching face to face during my third trimester? Rather than feeling more relaxed because I’ve caught it and been ok it’s made me realise that catching it in my third trimester is a genuine possibility. Won’t my booster have worn off by 28 weeks? What if it affects me differently or my baby badly because of how far along I am?

I spoke to a midwife about WFH from 28 weeks today and was told ‘that’s a conversation between you and your employer, we can’t give any guidance at this time’.

AIBU to be feeling throughly p’d off that this is the situation vulnerable pregnant teachers are in or will it be ok?

How.do you know you caught it at work as its everywhere just now?

@dementedpixie Because work was the only place I’d been in the 5 days prior to testing positive - and I’m sat in an airless classroom with up to 150 students a day. Each of my classes had at least 3 students off with covid and many of my students had positive siblings and parents at home….

Pregnant teachers at my school have all gone at 28 weeks. 🤷‍♀️