Can DH and I both go food shopping?

[Somepeoplehun]

Currently self isolating apart from food shopping (would get delivery but there’s an online queue to even get onto some websites and no slots for the foreseeable future on others).
I’m pregnant and we also have a toddler.
We need to go food shopping within the next week or so which I’m absolutely useless at as DH usually meal plans and gets everything but also I need to pick up my hospital bag essentials as I’ll be giving birth soon and I don’t trust DH to get this right.
Is it allowed for both of us to go with the two year old in the trolley or does the rule of only going out with one member of your household apply? Does my 2 year old count?

Thanks!

All our supermarkets here are now one person, one trolley, and one in one out when it gets to a certain number of people anyway. They wont let couples or children i

OP asked a polite question. Some of you having a right go on here should wind your necks in.

All this 'be kind' stuff seems to have passed you by.

She is as anxious and worried as the next person - a bit of compassion wouldn't go amiss.

FaceTime him from the shop?

If you're self isolating then none of you can go to the shop.

I thought if you are pregnant it's 12 weeks staying home...

A rule of thumb for coronavirus times - If in doubt, don't.
Why would you even want to be in the supermarket?
It's the only place open and consequently potentially the most likely place for many of us to catch a virus at present.

I come home from working there all day and, as most of my colleagues are now doing, strip off in the hall and immediately wash my uniform and have a shower. I feel like a scrub nurse.

Please also wash your shopping as far as possible now - the virus can stay alive on hard surfaces for days.

Nink - my 15 year old has social anxiety and can’t cope with crowds - I know this post makes us sound like a houseful of freaks I promise that ordinarily we are a normally functioning family

Can you order Click and Collect online and DH does the grocery bit and you do the hospital bag bit, and he goes and collects?

I'm a bit agog at the question and the idea that an adult can't do grocery shopping, but hey ho, there are ways to get it done.

Why would you risk taking a 2 year old to a probably busy supermarket if you don't have to? Write a list for your DH and stay home with your child ffs.

I'd go one at a time without toddler. I don't think you'll need much for your hospital bag if you're due anytime soon - they are rushing people out very quickly by all accounts after births.

Could you order your hospital bag bits online? Boots/Amazon/superdrug? Even if your husband has to go a and pick up the parcel from the shop? Also have a Google, some companies online do a full 'hospital bag' which is a package of everything you'll need!

Given that you're high risk as you're pregnant I wouldn't risk going out if I didn't have to, especially as children can be little carriers of the virus, stay safe at home

From what I know you can go out but only with other people from your household

Dh went to the shop today and they would only allow 1 family member in, made anyone else wait outside including children if they seemed old enough to wait. Dont know the age but dh said about 10ish.
The actual answer is yes you both can go all be it by staying separate or making separate trips but why on earth would you risk it for shopping.

@B0bbin please check your intel before posting, u though wrong.

So you're incapable of shopping for food, and your DH is incapable of shopping for a couple of toiletries?

Jesus wept.

I think if you're self isolating neither of you should go out really. I'd ask a friend to drop food round or look for an online group to help (loads on FB) and do your maternity shop online and get it delivered.

If you're (just) socially distancing I'd get your DH to do the food shop in one shop and do the other maternity stuff online and get it delivered.

I think the nastiness was caused by the not trusting DH to get the maternity stuff right comment. I rolled my eyes when my elderly neighbours gave me a list of food shopping that included a certain type and brand of ham that has to be bought in a certain quantity. They are lovely people but really....

@Jaxhog the government introduced those measures too late and they were too lax about them. They were in denial for weeks and did not prepare the country enough. It's the most shambolic response to the crisis among all the countries I followed.

Can't you just do a click and collect and send DH?

Why not just send your dh? Stay at home with the toddler. Have you not seen all the videos of young people and kids struck down by the virus?

I’m a single parent and I will be leaving my kids at home to shop if I need too, luckily my kids are old enough to leave for an hour.

No

From now on it’s one person / one trolley.
I was in charge ( for a bit ) of it yesterday.
I couldn’t allow a couple *if l could let, say 5 and then a couple made it six.
It is that tight
Couples who insisted had to let single shoppers in, in front.
I still had stubborn individuals want me to explain why social distancing was being implemented.
I’ve had, so far...
“ l work for the NHS” ( when asked to step back)
“ l don’t have the Black Death “
“ Not saying you’ve got anything - but l am just going to clean this for my elderly Mum”
It was 30g of tobacco!

Oh now we have the 'I feel sorry for your children' brigade.

Peak MN reached.

Your post is dickish, Dzundza, you deduced all that from OP's only post?

So many posters love to put the boot into other women's parenting thinking that they themselves are some sort of 'uber' parent. They're not. They're not likeable people though either. HTH

I thought if you are pregnant it's 12 weeks staying home...

Only if you are in the 'at very high risk' group i.e. pregnant women with significant congenital heart disease

Being pregnant in itself does not automatically mean that you must spend the next 12 weeks at home