Some bitches on this thread.
Of course the petition is tripe and the things it focuses on aren’t the issues, but have some compassion.
Unless you’ve had a lockdown baby and been denied the basic healthcare you were promised your whole life you’d get, go shove your snarky comments up your arse.
Not one person other than in the hospital touched my baby for the first twelve weeks of his life, and if I wasn’t breaking Boris’s shit rules they still wouldn’t have.
Of course bereavement pay should be better. Of course nicu mums should have more support. It’s not an either/or.
We’ve had no health visitor. No weighing. No breastfeeding support service. You might not have found those things valuable yourself but I’ll bet it was good to know they were there.
My baby was very hard fought for and came after traumatic losses. Fearing that he’d catch a new and terrifying disease before I could see him grow up seemed like almost a thing too far in late March, when we didn’t know different.
His first walk in the pram was at 5.30am so we didn’t see anybody on the street, and I cried the whole way thinking of what would happen if I caught it or he did. Of COURSE I was over-anxious but we didn’t know that then.
I had to beg my mum not to turn up at my door to see him.
It seemed like the world was turning upside down, especially when I didn’t sleep for more than four hours in every 24 those first weeks. My baby is a gift, a treasure and I know how very lucky I am to have him.
But it’s enough for people to just acknowledge “yeah, that must’ve been tough”.