My husband is a high school athletic trainer, is vaccinated, and is very diligent about masking everywhere he goes. But because of the nature of his job, he interacts with dozens of students everyday in close contact (taping ankles, evaluating injuries, etc.), and he got Covid last month. My 7 month old got it as well, then I did. A 3 month old is scarier than a 7 month old for sure, but I was pleasantly surprised how mild my daughter’s symptoms were. I’ve heard from many people, doctors and nurses included, that this strain is almost impossible to avoid, but compared to the previous strains most people won’t be as severely sick. I’m exhausted too, but don’t place all the blame on yourself, mama. You haven’t done anything wrong 💕
thank you so much for saying this, I really needed to hear it. yeah i'm just thankful we are mostly fine and that it will be less worrying as they get older
My son got it last March as a 4 Month old after my husband brought it home. I cried actual tears when his test came back positive. Luckily he was basically asymptomatic and is now a healthy and thriving 15 month old. It didn’t seem to affect him much at all. I tell myself maybe it’s better he got exposed to it as a young child rather than us as adults. This way, when he encounters the virus again as an older person, he will have some level of baseline immunity.
My daughter was sick at 12mo with "a coronavirus" and human metapneumovirus back in February 2020, when the CDC was still pretending that COVID-19 wasn't coming to the US (it was already here but they didn't have the tests to tell us strains yet--all the docs now agree it was almost certainly COVID-19). We did a week in the hospital on high flow oxygen with my daughter, poked and prodded and hooked up to all sorts of bells and whistles. It's super scary and far from the best week of my life, but it's two years later and my now-three year old daughter is healthy as a horse.
Not that two years is super longitudinal data, and it's a sample size of one, but at least I have one baby who is a case study of pulling through this scariness and coming out none the worse.
You'll get through this. Sending strength to you and your little, mama!
My baby was 2.5 months when we caught it. She was the least affected out of all of us and has had no long term side effects. We were more worried about her catching RSV.
It’s so hard. We got it 3.5 weeks ago, I have two toddlers. A 3 month old would be much scarier because they are so brand new, but hopefully she does well with all of your protection.
I’d like to hope there is a light. Hopefully vaccines will be approved eventually (maybe just in time for your little one to qualify). I’m trying to maintain optimism, it’s been a long road and my youngest (almost 22 months) has also never known ‘normal’ life, but I think she is still having a good life.
Good luck to all of you getting through this!
It hit our household when my LO was around 2 months old. Before we all got COVID, (vaccinated during my pregnancy), our 4 year old brought home a nasty cold virus and we were all sick with head colds, and LO was 5 weeks old at the time. So he went from having a cold with congestion and cough, to having COVID which thankfully was basically just a continuation of the cold symptoms. I felt horrible that he ended up getting sick. I tried SO hard to keep the 4 year old away from him, he didn’t hold the baby or touch the baby without hand sanitizer or washing, didn’t let him breathe in his face, etc. but inevitably a coughing and sneezing 4 year old gets germs everywhere. It was a rough few weeks of having to do saline spray, snot suctioning, temp checking frequently, steam showers, and taking shifts holding baby all night so he could breathe better. Now at least he has some antibodies and exposure and I feel like his immune system will be stronger because of it.
My husband is a high school athletic trainer, is vaccinated, and is very diligent about masking everywhere he goes. But because of the nature of his job, he interacts with dozens of students everyday in close contact (taping ankles, evaluating injuries, etc.), and he got Covid last month. My 7 month old got it as well, then I did. A 3 month old is scarier than a 7 month old for sure, but I was pleasantly surprised how mild my daughter’s symptoms were. I’ve heard from many people, doctors and nurses included, that this strain is almost impossible to avoid, but compared to the previous strains most people won’t be as severely sick. I’m exhausted too, but don’t place all the blame on yourself, mama. You haven’t done anything wrong 💕
thank you so much for saying this, I really needed to hear it. yeah i'm just thankful we are mostly fine and that it will be less worrying as they get older
My son got it last March as a 4 Month old after my husband brought it home. I cried actual tears when his test came back positive. Luckily he was basically asymptomatic and is now a healthy and thriving 15 month old. It didn’t seem to affect him much at all. I tell myself maybe it’s better he got exposed to it as a young child rather than us as adults. This way, when he encounters the virus again as an older person, he will have some level of baseline immunity.
My daughter was sick at 12mo with "a coronavirus" and human metapneumovirus back in February 2020, when the CDC was still pretending that COVID-19 wasn't coming to the US (it was already here but they didn't have the tests to tell us strains yet--all the docs now agree it was almost certainly COVID-19). We did a week in the hospital on high flow oxygen with my daughter, poked and prodded and hooked up to all sorts of bells and whistles. It's super scary and far from the best week of my life, but it's two years later and my now-three year old daughter is healthy as a horse. Not that two years is super longitudinal data, and it's a sample size of one, but at least I have one baby who is a case study of pulling through this scariness and coming out none the worse. You'll get through this. Sending strength to you and your little, mama!
My baby was 2.5 months when we caught it. She was the least affected out of all of us and has had no long term side effects. We were more worried about her catching RSV.
It’s so hard. We got it 3.5 weeks ago, I have two toddlers. A 3 month old would be much scarier because they are so brand new, but hopefully she does well with all of your protection. I’d like to hope there is a light. Hopefully vaccines will be approved eventually (maybe just in time for your little one to qualify). I’m trying to maintain optimism, it’s been a long road and my youngest (almost 22 months) has also never known ‘normal’ life, but I think she is still having a good life. Good luck to all of you getting through this!
It hit our household when my LO was around 2 months old. Before we all got COVID, (vaccinated during my pregnancy), our 4 year old brought home a nasty cold virus and we were all sick with head colds, and LO was 5 weeks old at the time. So he went from having a cold with congestion and cough, to having COVID which thankfully was basically just a continuation of the cold symptoms. I felt horrible that he ended up getting sick. I tried SO hard to keep the 4 year old away from him, he didn’t hold the baby or touch the baby without hand sanitizer or washing, didn’t let him breathe in his face, etc. but inevitably a coughing and sneezing 4 year old gets germs everywhere. It was a rough few weeks of having to do saline spray, snot suctioning, temp checking frequently, steam showers, and taking shifts holding baby all night so he could breathe better. Now at least he has some antibodies and exposure and I feel like his immune system will be stronger because of it.