Who should sleep on the couch?

Question

Help us solve our little petty dispute 
(Nothing serious) 
My husband is sick with a nasty cough. We currently have a 4 week old and she is sleeping in our room in a bassinet  
My vote is that he sleeps on the couch to avoid spreading his cold to the baby and also to avoid waking her up at night with his cough. I am breastfeeding so I am the only one tending to the baby at night and I don’t want to wake up more than I have too. 
His vote is for me to sleep on the couch and bring the bassinet out to the living room so he can have the bed and get some good sleep.  
Who should sleep on the couch?

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Me because if I have to walk around the house and also leave the room to cook or whatever else I don’t want him on the couch with all that sickness. Plus I’d be pissed taking a couch while sick. I breastfeed too and would still take the couch.

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Neither. Everyone is exposed now anyways.

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My husband had COVID when our son was two months. I did not make him isolate since I knew we were all already exposed. Baby was fine. If you’re determined that one of you must sleep on the couch it should be you, being sick is uncomfortable enough.

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I would let the sick one sleep in the bed. I’d move the bassinet to the living room and sleep on the couch.

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Everyone is already exposed, just sleep in the bed and get a good night’s rest.

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We’ve never not slept together, even when I had Covid in June. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I understand your thinking that he should go out, but if it’s really bothering you that much, then you should move with baby. But you’re already exposed, so I say don’t move at all.

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i’d probably sleep on the couch with babe in their bassinet. or sleep in baby’s room. when i first had my baby, she and i slept in the guest room until she was sleeping better through the night (and at this point i was switching to formula full time).

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My husband just had COVID and he slept one night on the couch when he had a fever. He wasn’t super happy about it but we decided together it was probably smart. The next day we washed the couch covers and I moved him to the bed so he could sleep well and slept in the room with him but on the futon. We washed the bedding the next day because he sweat in it a lot and I slept with him the 3rd night because the fevers were gone. I never got sick and he still felt loved.

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Doesn’t really matter. What matters is that everyone gets some rest. You can’t do that sleeping in the same room with someone who is coughing all night.￼ it most likely will be like that for a couple of nights, at least… So pick who’s sleeping on the couch tonight and then switch tomorrow. ￼

Who should sleep on the couch?

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