We'd avoided Covid for 2 years, but now Daisy – at around 9 weeks pregnant – started to develop some real Covid symptoms, including chills, sweats and a cough
, to first scans, through all the ups and downs of impending parenthood. This week - what happened when Daisy and I caught Covid...
As friends, relatives and neighbours contracted the illness one-by-one – thankfully, all recovering from it – we steered clear. I hadn’t lost any sense of smell or taste, neither had I any flu symptoms, a sore throat or indeed any other classic signs of Covid. So I thought nothing of it.Then, three days later, Daisy – who by now was around 9 weeks pregnant – started to develop some real Covid symptoms, including chills, sweats and a cough.
Time stood still. The pinkish liquid started moving inexorably up the test strip within the plastic cassette.Stunningly, before the ‘control’ line had even appeared, a positive line formed in front of my eyes; followed a few seconds later by the formation of the control line.It was incontrovertible: Daisy had Covid19.
That next hour was very difficult. We started Googling what to do next. The advice was to speak with our maternity unit and let them know what was happening. But it was 6pm on a Friday evening and nobody was there, they’d obviously gone home for the weekend. We left a message.
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