Is it even possible to protect my newborn from Omicron?

[Anonymous]

Pull your kid out of preschool and put your nanny on leave until baby is 6weeks old. After that live normally. You don't need to do anything for covid that you wouldn't do for flu when it comes to babies and kids. The data are very clear that kids do not get very sick from covid. The neonate period is the exception.

[Anonymous]

Similar boat. Due in 5 weeks and have a 5 year old in K. I cannot fathom pulling the 5 year old out of school - she did awful during the first wave in 2020 at home and was an only child - I cannot imagine being tasked with entertaining her 24/7 w an infant. Cannot. Praying this baby goes to term and the wave will have crested. Boosted at 30 weeks and will breastfeed as well.

[Anonymous]

I think that unless you are masking 100% and asking your child to mask 100%, there's no way that just masking around the baby is going to protect the baby at all. Or distancing around the baby. Because your daughter will pass it to you if she gets it.

If you are concerned I think you need to pull her out. Surely, with a nanny, you'll still get breaks. Ask the nanny to wear an N95, not to come near you or the baby, and have your daughter mask around the nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Similar boat. Due in 5 weeks and have a 5 year old in K. I cannot fathom pulling the 5 year old out of school - she did awful during the first wave in 2020 at home and was an only child - I cannot imagine being tasked with entertaining her 24/7 w an infant. Cannot. Praying this baby goes to term and the wave will have crested. Boosted at 30 weeks and will breastfeed as well.

PP with two year old in daycare. I feel this. I’m probably not pulling my older kid after the holidays either because I think I would go insane. (SAHMs with two under two: you are badass FYI.) Hoping your baby goes to term and things have created before you deliver, above PP!

[Anonymous]

Our ped advised us to pull our 5yo kindergartener out for the first 3 weeks of school when it returns as well as our 3 yo. I have a 2 week old.

Our 5 yo was also out of the school the last week per the ped. Masking unfortunately won’t do much at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our ped advised us to pull our 5yo kindergartener out for the first 3 weeks of school when it returns as well as our 3 yo. I have a 2 week old.

Our 5 yo was also out of the school the last week per the ped. Masking unfortunately won’t do much at home.

Why just the first three weeks? Will Omicron really subside by then?

[Anonymous]

Would you be this cautious of the flu or other illnesses? I truly don’t understand. This has been going on for two years. Do you really know kids who have died or were severely damaged from covid?

I’m not trying to be mean, but I don’t understand how covid becomes such a focus for a mom. I can see being concerned about RSV when there is a lot going around. I definitely understand being scared of passing on covid to someone who is elderly. Or being scared of a backyard pool when you have a young child. But covid?? You realize most people with covid right now have a mild cold?

[Anonymous]

If you're at home on maternity leave, you don't need a nanny. That's just unnecessary exposure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our ped advised us to pull our 5yo kindergartener out for the first 3 weeks of school when it returns as well as our 3 yo. I have a 2 week old.

Our 5 yo was also out of the school the last week per the ped. Masking unfortunately won’t do much at home.

Why just the first three weeks? Will Omicron really subside by then?

I think she was trying to give me a best case scenario first. No one knows but at least 3 weeks after school starts many of the travel cases will have been caught. I talked to the school (smaller private) and they are fine with me keeping her home in January.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you be this cautious of the flu or other illnesses? I truly don’t understand. This has been going on for two years. Do you really know kids who have died or were severely damaged from covid?

I’m not trying to be mean, but I don’t understand how covid becomes such a focus for a mom. I can see being concerned about RSV when there is a lot going around. I definitely understand being scared of passing on covid to someone who is elderly. Or being scared of a backyard pool when you have a young child. But covid?? You realize most people with covid right now have a mild cold?

Newborns are high risk for complications from covid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you be this cautious of the flu or other illnesses? I truly don’t understand. This has been going on for two years. Do you really know kids who have died or were severely damaged from covid?

I’m not trying to be mean, but I don’t understand how covid becomes such a focus for a mom. I can see being concerned about RSV when there is a lot going around. I definitely understand being scared of passing on covid to someone who is elderly. Or being scared of a backyard pool when you have a young child. But covid?? You realize most people with covid right now have a mild cold?

If a neonate gets a fever they get admitted and a spinal tap. It's not covid, it's the age

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're at home on maternity leave, you don't need a nanny. That's just unnecessary exposure.

Have the nanny come for 2 hours masked to take elder kid to the park so you can nap. Don't need her in the house, agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you be this cautious of the flu or other illnesses? I truly don’t understand. This has been going on for two years. Do you really know kids who have died or were severely damaged from covid?

I’m not trying to be mean, but I don’t understand how covid becomes such a focus for a mom. I can see being concerned about RSV when there is a lot going around. I definitely understand being scared of passing on covid to someone who is elderly. Or being scared of a backyard pool when you have a young child. But covid?? You realize most people with covid right now have a mild cold?

Newborns are high risk for complications from covid

No. Not true. Gosh, stop with insanely scary flat-out lies. It would be one thing if this were true! But it’s not! Gosh you must be fun at parties.

“Most newborns who tested positive for COVID-19 had mild or no symptoms and recovered.”
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/pregnancy-breastfeeding.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you be this cautious of the flu or other illnesses? I truly don’t understand. This has been going on for two years. Do you really know kids who have died or were severely damaged from covid?

I’m not trying to be mean, but I don’t understand how covid becomes such a focus for a mom. I can see being concerned about RSV when there is a lot going around. I definitely understand being scared of passing on covid to someone who is elderly. Or being scared of a backyard pool when you have a young child. But covid?? You realize most people with covid right now have a mild cold?

Newborns are high risk for complications from covid

No. Not true. Gosh, stop with insanely scary flat-out lies. It would be one thing if this were true! But it’s not! Gosh you must be fun at parties.

“Most newborns who tested positive for COVID-19 had mild or no symptoms and recovered.”
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/pregnancy-breastfeeding.html

Seems to be newborns born to covid positive moms, not newborns who caught it after being born.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34411000/

All cause mortality of neonates is comparable to elderly people. The first 6 weeks is relatively dangerous and a good time not to get a virus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you be this cautious of the flu or other illnesses? I truly don’t understand. This has been going on for two years. Do you really know kids who have died or were severely damaged from covid?

I’m not trying to be mean, but I don’t understand how covid becomes such a focus for a mom. I can see being concerned about RSV when there is a lot going around. I definitely understand being scared of passing on covid to someone who is elderly. Or being scared of a backyard pool when you have a young child. But covid?? You realize most people with covid right now have a mild cold?

If a neonate gets a fever they get admitted and a spinal tap. It's not covid, it's the age

At what age do infants no longer need to be admitted for a spinal tap when presenting with a fever?