FFFC 11/13

szwill86

What’s your flame on this Friday the 13th?

hanfam2021

The old white dudes at work yesterday who looked at me like I was a psycho for wearing a mask near them and wanting to take separate vehicles. I get it that you think this is "just the flu" and "everyone's overreacting" but what part of "I'm gonna lose it if I can't meet my first baby after she's born because they're too busy carting me off to an isolation ward" do you not understand.

PinkKathryn12

@hanfam2021 how annoying!

moguippy

@hanfam2021 THIS. If I or my H or DS gets Covid or even gets exposed right before birth, I won’t be able to give birth on the L&D floor. I’ll have to give birth in an isolation room with no support person, and none of the “amenities” of L&D.  Then who knows if I’ll even be able to see my baby. I’m glad I live in a state where masks are mandatory anywhere indoor plus outside if you can’t maintain 6 feet. Since they’ve been mandatory from the beginning, it seems people in my state have just gotten used to it and very few complain. 

tamalahoops

@hanfam2021 I work with a lot of contractors and get rude remarks about my mask all the time. My new favorite response is "oh, I have covid." Then when they lose their shit and put on masks I trill "just kiddingggggg" and carry-on with what I need to do. It sucks to be the only woman on a jobsite and be gigantic waddling pregnant and having to defend wearing a mask. I am lucky though that its totally acceptable on a jobsite to call people dumbshits and not have any repercussions. 

WildMagelet

I'm super judging my mother right now. We were planning to have a get together this weekend with my brother, but someone took it upon herself to go have lunch, in a restaurant that's open against the governor's executive order, without masks, with our relatives that flew in from a large city, via the airport in another in another large city earlier this week. I was considering not going anyways, but this seriously sealed the deal for me. I'm a HR PGAL and my brother and SIL are undergoing IF treatments and TTCAL and we all take it super seriously but apparently she doesn't. She asked me about coming to our MFM appt next week but I'm not interested in that either at this point.

hannahbananas11

Piling onto the mask and covid things: one of the staff members in my H’s clinic tested positive this week. Had a community exposure last week, got tested on Friday, and still came into work on Monday like normal and didn’t tell anyone! He even attended a meeting and removed his mask during the meeting to eat! Then come this Tuesday, he got the test results from the Friday test and they were positive. So H is still working because he’s the only doctor in his specialty in our region, but he’s getting tested every three days until the end of next week, and while at home he’s masked and I’m sleeping in the guest room so that he can have the master bedroom and attached bathroom as his isolation space in case he does test positive.
My FFFC? I’m enjoying sleeping alone. 😂

WildMagelet

@hannahbananas11 - Sometimes an empty bed can be a guilty pleasure, that's totally okay!

Also adding to the COVID thing, we have a co-worker who came into work at least two days sick this week. I "strongly encouraged" her to get a test (something we offer at work for free) but it was a huge pain. She kept making excuses as to why her symptoms weren't COVID and that she didn't need to get tested or stay home. Uh...even if you are COVID-negative, you're still hacking up a lung. We get generous sick time and they'll pay you to stay home while you wait for your results, COVID or not. Stay home. Eventually she gave in, so hopefully she gets the results back over the weekend. 

birdiejo

My husband fell asleep in my sons room and I’m eating Halloween candy in bed while staring at my phone. 

mdfarmchick

We got home an hour ago and MH is doing all the unloading and supervising of the children while I lay in bed because I am so done with the car 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️

hannahbananas11

@birdiejo that sounds ideal. My H gets annoyed when I eat in bed because I’m messy and get crumbs everywhere. But I don’t care and do it anyway. 😆

@mdfarmchick yay on being home after your trek! Hopefully it’s a smooth bedtime soon and then you can really relax!

roadspeckle

Not a FFC but I’m curious as to why different regulations in hospitals.
ACOG recommendations are not to separate mom & baby if mom is positive for covid. They’re not enforcing that in my area and we have the most amount of positives than ever before.  

We have had lots of moms test positive incidentally upon admission to L&D and they were still allowed to have one support person and delivery in a pressurized room. 

rubyroux_89

I'm going through a small container of nutella like every 3 days 😳🤦‍♀️

szwill86

@rubyroux_89 I guess my FFFC is that I’ve never had Nutella. I had a nut allergy for a loooong time, so I always avoided it. Now that I’ve grown out of it, I just don’t have a desire to try it (yet).

moguippy

@roadspeckle a friend who works in the hospital (and did several weeks on COVID floors) was the one who told me that Covid+ moms go to the Covid floor. I’m sure it depends on the hospital, but that seems to be the consensus around here. They don’t want to risk the Covid negative moms and babies by putting a positive case on the floor.
I did hear about the ACOG recommendation NOT to separate moms and babies but that also doesn’t mean hospitals have to follow that. (Although they should)