“If you’re only in the hospital for a day or two, and then you’re going home — how are you going to protect the baby after that? If my husband and I are both presumed to have it, who’s going to care for the baby?”
Photo: Getty Images When Aislinn’s 4-year-old daughter came home from preschool sick at the end of February, it didn’t occur to her that she might have coronavirus. It wasn’t until a month later, after Aislinn, her 2-year-old son, and her husband had also gotten sick that her husband tested positive for COVID-19. At that point, Aislinn was 8 months pregnant; she’s due in May.
The kids both had to miss about a week and a half of preschool. By the time they didn’t have any symptoms, it was literally the day before their schools closed for the pandemic. He tested positive, and at that point, obviously, we were thinking back to all the different symptoms we’d had, and wondering if we’d all had it. Most of all, it felt confusing: We got a lot of different advice about what to do in our house in terms of distancing. My husband’s doctor said that he should isolate completely. Like, he should stay in the basement and not be around any of us until the public-health department cleared him, which usually takes seven to 14 days.
At that point, I was also still working remotely. My husband is a freelancer, and right now I’m the sole provider for our family. So I didn’t really have the option to stop working altogether and someone had to take care of the kids. It was already really chaotic and hard to focus on work having the kids home, so I couldn’t really imagine how we were going to have my husband keep self-isolating.
I was quite terrified of the idea of being separated from my baby. It also seemed weird to me, because if you’re only in the hospital for a day or two, and then you’re going home — how are you going to protect the baby after that? If my husband and I are both presumed to have it, who’s going to care for the baby?
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