Has anyone had both parents positive for Covid?

[Anonymous]

DH is positive for Covid and I am waiting for my test results but likely am too.

DH is currently quarantining in the master bedroom but if I am positive we can’t both quarantine from our young kids. How have others handled this? Just wear masks around your kids 24/7 and endless screen time for them?

Does anyone have stories to share where both parents were positive and neither kid got sick?

[Anonymous]

Are your kids also being tested? If both you and your husband test positive, than they most likely will too.

[Anonymous]

Yeah. It sucked.

We were both positive. Kids were also positive. Kids were not sick, didn't want to lay around and watch TV all day, and we couldn't send them to a friend's house or let them run around the neighborhood. It was over Christmas, so we had them write and put on a nativity play and bake a lot of cookies while we layed on the couch cheering them on.

[Anonymous]

Friends had this happen. They both wore masks in the house when outside of the separate bedrooms they were sleeping in. Kids never had symptoms. Their doctor said it wouldn't change the family's quarantine timeframe, so said to only test if the kids developed symptoms (they never did).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are your kids also being tested? If both you and your husband test positive, than they most likely will too.

Yes, they will be tested on Monday. Our pediatrician said to wait a few more days for more accurate results.

[Anonymous]

Our family of four had Covid - two asymptomatic children and two symptomatic adults. The kids had it first, then DH, then me. We did not mask or quarantine in the home because by the time we discovered our child had been in close contact, we were already displaying symptoms (DH thought he had allergies, and I got a fever the night we received a call from the contact tracer).

Honestly, chances are that your kids have it and just aren't showing symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our family of four had Covid - two asymptomatic children and two symptomatic adults. The kids had it first, then DH, then me. We did not mask or quarantine in the home because by the time we discovered our child had been in close contact, we were already displaying symptoms (DH thought he had allergies, and I got a fever the night we received a call from the contact tracer).

Honestly, chances are that your kids have it and just aren't showing symptoms.

DH and I did sleep in separate bedrooms though.

[Anonymous]

Yup. Family of 5, we were all positive.

Lots of tv and video games!

[Anonymous]

Any of you have very young children?
NP. We have an infant and a 5yo. We are both WFH, but DH has a lot of travel coming up soon, and I am honestly terrified of what happens to the kids if we end up sick. It isn’t like they can fend for themselves.

[Anonymous]

We went through that in December. We both just parked ourselves on the couch or one person was napping and the other person was on the couch. Kid 1 bingewatched a lot of Disney+ and the baby played on the floor. We ordered a lot of take out.

The important thing to watch for is your breathing. If you are having shortness of breath or breathing issues that's when you should head to a hospital.

[Anonymous]

Yes, my husband and I were both positive. We were masks around our toddler, who always tested negative, and survived with lots of screen time for her. The baby was 7 months old so I just kept her with me and continued to breastfeed. The baby never showed any symptoms, but we never tested her.

[Anonymous]

My 22 month old tested positive from a daycare exposure. We couldn’t quarantine her and had to wait five days for my husbands, myself and 3 year old to be tested. She wasn’t wearing a mask yet so we just all quarantined at home. We live in a small house and the kids continued to share a bedroom. Five days later, I tested positive, husband and son still negative. As we had already quarantined together we just continued. Husband and I shared a bed. Children occasionally shared sippy cups when we weren’t fast enough. Fifteen days later we all tested again and everyone was negative.

We would have quarantined differently or isolated in house if an adult had tested positive first but that wasn’t our story and we did the best we could. Still curious how son and husband never got it.

[Anonymous]

We don’t know for sure because it was a year ago and there weren’t any good tests but we are pretty sure we both had it - many symptoms. Kids were not affected at all, so either didn’t get it or asymptomatic. Good luck, we had fever and fatigue for weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any of you have very young children?
NP. We have an infant and a 5yo. We are both WFH, but DH has a lot of travel coming up soon, and I am honestly terrified of what happens to the kids if we end up sick. It isn’t like they can fend for themselves.

For real. Parents of kids under 12 should have been considered essential workers with the vaccine rollout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any of you have very young children?
NP. We have an infant and a 5yo. We are both WFH, but DH has a lot of travel coming up soon, and I am honestly terrified of what happens to the kids if we end up sick. It isn’t like they can fend for themselves.

For real. Parents of kids under 12 should have been considered essential workers with the vaccine rollout.