To be dreading attending this wedding? (Covid and pregnancy related)

[Changedmyname1357]

I will be a bridesmaid for a friend's wedding in early August. The wedding is in central London. I am pregnant, and I'm feeling very unsure about having the vaccine. This anxiety is making me more inclined to have it, but I won't be double dosed by then even if I got the jab tomorrow.

With the restrictions lifting and the amount of public transport I'm going to have to take (trains, underground, buses), coupled with the prediction of 100K+ cases a day by that point, I am absolutely dreading it. I don't know how I can possibly keep myself safe and, honestly, I just don't want to go.

I know I'm a bad friend, so take that as a given. But am I worrying over nothing?

YABU - relax, you're being overcautious
YANBU - understandable, this is a dilemma

You say ‘I don’t know how I can possibly keep myself safe’ - well, there is one way to mitigate the risk and that’s getting the vaccine. Get some help for your anxiety if necessary so that you can take this very good step for keeping yourself safe.

Or don’t go.

Just remember OP, @Mybobowler and @Changedmyname1357, thousands of us have been pregnant during this pandemic, lots of us have even had Covid while pregnant, lots of us have now have the vaccine while pregnant. We’re all ok. Our babies are all ok. I know that doesn’t prove a rule but the risk is minute. The hesitation early on was that it was all unknown.

Take precautions when you travel if your partner really won’t let you have the car (if you did, just drive into central London and pay to park. It’ll probably be £20-odd a day) and you’ll be fine.

Just a suggestion: how about hiring a car for a couple of days? It would need to be that long a time, to allow time to return it.
You can plan your route and arrange parking etc on line beforehand.
If London is so quiet, it should be a pleasant way to do it. It will probably not cost much more than train, Ubers, etc. Or your DH could use the hire car and you drive the one you are used to.

Was the over crowed train during the euros? I travelled by train during that time into London and it was much busier so maybe not normal.

You would be really surprised by how much parking there actually is in London if you did drive in. Expensive but available and street parking rules are different the weekend.

Lastly - it will be quieter without foreign tourists. We went to Windsor a few weeks ago on a Saturday and it was so quiet without coachfuls of tourists.

I was pregnant last year and my rule was no tube.