Labour childcare

[HappyHen17]

Quite ready to be shot down but I'm really struggling to make a decision I'm happy with. My labour is imminent and we had childcare arrangements with my 73 year old, healthy mum for our toddler and then the virus hit. I am now stuck on whether to give birth alone or still take the option of childcare despite the risks.
She is healthy just in the over 70 bracket, we've all been social distancing for two weeks and nobody has symptoms but still is it worth it?
I can't have a home birth, have no other childcare or birth partner options. I'm nervous of being alone as the only other vaginal birth that I had was with a child that died soon after birth so it's a very emotional time and my partners support would be helpful.
AIBU to accept this help?

According to the news, it takes 11 days for the symptoms to show. If you have been isolating for 14 days and nothing from anyone I (not a medical professional!) would think it would be ok. I'm so sorry to hear about your little one. This will be a stressful time for you, you will need the support of your partner.

In this very unique circumstance, assuming your mum is happy, I'd go with the original plan.

Hope everything goes OK for you.

I'm due at the end of June. Assuming partners still allowed at my trust and we aee still in some degree of lock down, My mum will be looking after my toddler after we've all self isolated for 2 weeks. She is under 70 so not at high risk but in some circumstances I think you just do the best you can even if it's not ideal.

I am using help from outside my household for childcare so my husband can come with me for my c section tomorrow.

When I leave the hospital, we will need to use childcare help again anyway because they said they can't help me to the car and children aren't allowed on site, and I won't be able to carry the baby and our bags down to the car park on my own.

If you're feeling OK about having self isolated, I think accepting the help is OK in these exceptional circumstances.

I'm sorry for your previous loss and hope the birth goes well.

Thanks guys. My concern is that we haven't been in complete isolation. My husband has been to the supermarket once, I've been to the GP (completely isolated), my toddler went to nursery 12 days prior to the day I'm likely to go in for induction and we've all been on our daily walks. So my fear is that we've touched something that could mean we are incubating something even though we've not had direct contact with anyone 😩😭

My mum will be moving in for a couple of days whilst I'm in labour and in hospital.

@rhayader how different to the responses you got.
Just goes to show depends who comes across your post.

@strawberry2017

Quite!!

The average number of days for symptoms to show is 4/5 if that helps!

I would go it alone but I know that's so hard. I couldn't forgive myself if the child cause serious illness (or worse) to whoever looked after them. It's such a crappy situation.