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!

Send DH out to supermarket at your toddlers nap time.

Make yourself a cup of tea.

Order all your hospital stuff on line in the safety and peace of your own home.

Get DH to bring you all a bun back.

Don't go to the supermarket with a toddler who is going to want to touch everything/ scream down every aisle/ have absolutely no concept of social distancing.

MonaLisaDoesntSmile I stand corrected but I’d still suggest that going to the supermarket at a time like this when you have other people to go for you isn’t being extra careful

COVID-19 really does have a certain type of poster crawling out of the woodwork, doesn't it?

Definitely do not take the 2 yr old & don't go out the both of you!

Maybe try online ordering, I know it's really difficult right now, getting delivery slots etc...Boots might be good? I stocked up with lots of maternity stuff with them.

Or if you get totally desperate, wear a face mask & go out to the shops yourself!

Don't go to the supermarket with a toddler who is going to want to touch everything/ scream down every aisle/ have absolutely no concept of social distancing

This

DD who is a keyworkers stood in a queue for 45 minutes of her hour break today just to get into Tesco (nearest place to her work) to buy some food for her lunch.

The police were in Tesco checking what people were buying and the one person policy was in force

By the time she bought her food she had no time to eat it. Normally she takes lunch with her but as a keyworker she is struggling to get all she needs when going shopping around her work hours.

@MonaLisaDoesntSmile if they'd done that, we all be complaining about the impact on our civil liberties! The police wouldn't be ready to enforce it, and it wouldn't be legal. In a situation as new and unpredictable as this, getting it right is a very, very fine line.

It's also very easy to criticize the government with the benefit of hindsight and with the knowledge that you don't have to make these difficult decisions.

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

No, but it does put her in a more vulnerable group who should be avoiding non-familial social contact as much as they can. Even without this, taking a toddler to the supermarket when you really don't have to, will put others at risk.

@Makinganewthinghappen
A train and DH has a health condition???
Could you take the 15 yr old instead and maybe even get a taxi?