Newborns and Covid - Any experiences you can share?

Question

Hi everyone,
Covid has finally hit my home. Unfortunately, last week my 4 year old son brought it home from his daycare last week he only goes twice a week. He was feeling better after a day and then my husband got it a few days later. He is also feeling much better now but today I finally got hit with it and it's brutal. We have a 1 month old and I am so concerned about her getting it. We haven't really been able to isolate from eachother as we live in a small 2 bedroom condo. Any experiences you can share? Did your newborn get hit hard if they got it? I am currently combo feeding as I have IGT and can't EBF. Will this still help? Any stories/tips I would be very greatful. Thank you!

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Giving some breast milk will at least pass on some of your anti bodies 🙏
I don't know anyone personally, but follow a few who shared their newborn had covid along with the rest of the family this winter. It was hard and it wasn't fun but it was okay. It took a while to get over it for the baby especially.

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My son wasn’t a newborn but he was a preemie.
He was 6 months when he got it with the rest of my family. He was born at 31 weeks. He was sick for 1 day with a low grade fever.

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I had a friend with a daughter who got it at six weeks, they had to go into hospital a few times but I don't think she received much actual treatment, more just observing and monitoring I believe.. good luck!

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I tested positive when my water broke. I didn’t even know I had it. The hospital never separated us and I never separated away from my baby when we got home. She never got it. She is now 17m and has never been sick.

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My husband and I had it back in early January. We got hit really hard, especially me with fevers, chills and horrible coughs, I thought I was going to cough up a lung and almost passed out from coughing so hard. We wore masks when we were around our baby, who was 3-4 months old at the time (also born 5 weeks premature), which was 24/7 and washed our hands constantly. I continued to breastfeed him. Luckily he never showed signs of sickness! Could’ve been the constant hand washing, mask-wearing, breastfeeding, or just luck, but thank god he didn’t get it. We were so worried!

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My husband got it in December our son was 2 months old. My son and I never got it and nobody quarantined from each other or wore masks.

Newborns and Covid - Any experiences you can share?

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