Do you isolate young kids if they get Covid?

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Anonymous wrote:Kids are 6, 5 and 2. Do we isolate one of them if they get Covid. Obviously the 2 year old can’t be vaccinated but everyone else is and adults have been boosted. Just trying to figure out for if/when we get exposed or have Covid. It seems inevitable at this point.

Yes, you try. And it isn’t inevitable. My six year old got covid, we isolated him as best we could, and the 8 and 2 years olds never got it. I did and DH didn’t probably because I took care of our covid kid.

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Single parent to a 2 year old. There is no way I could isolate.

I have accepted that if one of us gets it, both of us get it.

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The spread among family members who have tried to isolate and not tried to isolate has been about the same among people I know. Maybe because we all live in fairly small apartments and all have young kids (babies through elementary school). We won't bother trying if one of us gets in.

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Our 9 yo got it. One parent took on responsibility for his care (the parent who had been with him most in the previous couple of days, since that person was more likely to have already been exposed). Everyone masked. We asked the 9 yo to stay in his room, we brought him food up there and checked in regularly. He actually didn't feel super terrible, so there wasn't much to do besides hang out periodically. We let him have a lot of screen time, and we let the dog hang out with him (technically, I think dogs can get it, but this made him feel less lonely).

Parents slept in separate bedrooms at night because we were unmasked at night and didn't want to risk infecting the other. No one else got it.

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We didn’t bother with our 1 and 3 year old in a small townhouse. Our 1 year old brought it home from daycare. We all had it within a week.

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Maybe it's different because I have twins, but there is no way in h*ll they would cooperate with being isolated from each other. Agree with people who said it sounds both cruel and impossible. YMMV depending on age and personality.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, we would try. Masking in the house and keeping them apart as much as possible. It hasn’t happened to us yet but we have a plan if it does happen. I would take care of the 16 month old (still nursing) and DH would take care of the three year old. Nanny, who is triple vaccinated but 66, would take the uninfected one to her apartment during the day.

I have no clue if our plan would work!

Is your 66 year old nanny onboard with your “plan”?! Most employers give the nanny time off during kids’ covid outbreaks not to mention she’s over 65 and more vulnerable to complications!

Yes, actually our plan was her idea. She’s truly a part of our family, highly educated and very healthy, and very covid-cautious. She’s also very devoted to our children. We would absolutely give her paid time off and she knows it.

I don't put people I care about at risk, even if it's their idea. That's a really selfish plan.

Our nanny would not stay away. I know her.

I wouldn't leave someone who couldn't follow my instructions alone with my children.

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We are a family of 3 living in a condo. DH had covid and he stayed at a friend’s place vs home; isolating in a small space is ridiculously hard. If DS gets sick, we won’t isolate him but would wear masks and I’d eat apart from him and DH. If I get sick, I would isolate to keep DS protected.

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Anonymous wrote:So would you try and keep the 2 year old who is unvaccinated away from everyone else? Just have one parent with a mask on come in and out of the room where 2 year old is quarantined?

No f-ing way. We’d have one parent isolate WITH the sick kid and other parent take care of healthy kid, bring sick kid and designated parent food, etc. That is our plan and my kids are 7 and 9. Leaving a 2 year old mostly alone in their room for 10 days (or 5. Or whatever) is ridiculous!

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From other family members? Absolutely not. From the outside world? Yes, per CDC (and more importantly daycare) guidelines

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No and I wouldn't even try. Family of 5 and medical. I'm actually shocked none of us has gotten it yet.

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Life-in nanny here. My charge and I (both covid +) were isolated away from my employer who later caught it too.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, we would try. Masking in the house and keeping them apart as much as possible. It hasn’t happened to us yet but we have a plan if it does happen. I would take care of the 16 month old (still nursing) and DH would take care of the three year old. Nanny, who is triple vaccinated but 66, would take the uninfected one to her apartment during the day.

I have no clue if our plan would work!

Is your 66 year old nanny onboard with your “plan”?! Most employers give the nanny time off during kids’ covid outbreaks not to mention she’s over 65 and more vulnerable to complications!

Yes, actually our plan was her idea. She’s truly a part of our family, highly educated and very healthy, and very covid-cautious. She’s also very devoted to our children. We would absolutely give her paid time off and she knows it.

I don't put people I care about at risk, even if it's their idea. That's a really selfish plan.

Our nanny would not stay away. I know her.

If she is that enmeshed in your family, I hope you plan to pension her off when it’s time for her to retire, rather than a measly severance

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We are going through this right now — family of 5 (7, 4, and 2). Our 4 year old came down with it first. Our 2 year old fhe next day and the 7 year old (unvaxxed) showing some symptoms next. Boosted parents still showing no signs. There was no way we were going to isolate our kids! Also everything is very mild, so they’re kind of bouncing off the walls, not a lay in bed all day kind of illness. I’d rather do this isolation thing once than in multiple rounds, but again I’m not scared of getting Covid so there’s that.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, we would try. Masking in the house and keeping them apart as much as possible. It hasn’t happened to us yet but we have a plan if it does happen. I would take care of the 16 month old (still nursing) and DH would take care of the three year old. Nanny, who is triple vaccinated but 66, would take the uninfected one to her apartment during the day.

I have no clue if our plan would work!

Is your 66 year old nanny onboard with your “plan”?! Most employers give the nanny time off during kids’ covid outbreaks not to mention she’s over 65 and more vulnerable to complications!

Yes, actually our plan was her idea. She’s truly a part of our family, highly educated and very healthy, and very covid-cautious. She’s also very devoted to our children. We would absolutely give her paid time off and she knows it.

I don't put people I care about at risk, even if it's their idea. That's a really selfish plan.

Our nanny would not stay away. I know her.

I wouldn't leave someone who couldn't follow my instructions alone with my children.

You’re being ridiculous, PP. NP here and you’re just being argumentative. Sounds like the poster has a dedicated nanny.