Baby due in July panic

[crispysausagerolls]

I realise this is selfish but I am panicking quite a lot about baby being due mid July, after reading an article that May-June will see the peak of it. Anyone else in a similar situation?

Carrie Symonds will be...

Talk to your midwives, they will be prepping for the months ahead. Let them reassure you.

Carrie Symonds will be

I doubt she will be worried though as she will have every available doctor at her beck and call! Probably a sterilised hospital wing cleared for her etc

It’s a bit like how we are not supposed to go and get diagnosed if we are ill....but all of the famous people are somehow getting diagnosed. “Somehow” = doctors on tap!

I'm worried too OP, due around that time, a bit earlier during the peak. I'm staying indoors a lot right now

@EasterEggz

Are you worried about catching him? I’m
Not so worried about that as it doesn’t seem to transfer to the foetus. But maybe I am being naive about my own health! It’s the bloody labour I am nervous about as my first labour wasn’t great and I really don’t want to do that home alone.

*it; not him

I'm worried about the baby catching it, as seems to have happened in London. I'm also worried as I might be slightly more susceptible as I'm asthmatic? Also I'm worried they'll tell me I can't have my agreed ELCS anymore

Oh no, labour home alone would be awful. Surely not 🙏🏼🙏🏼

I'm due in about 3 weeks and I'm not worried about catching it myself. I'm really worried about dh getting it or having symptoms and not being aloud to come to the hospital with me. There's no one else I would feel comfortable being my partner and I am terrified of going through it all alone and it would be awful for him to not see the birth of his child.
Don't feel comfortable having a home birth as I had a few complications with my first.
I understand the hospitals priority is to keep everyone safe and me wanting support during labour won't be as important. But I'm now so scared when Iv been calm about giving birth up until now.

I'm due the beginning of June. I'm most worried about a lack of midwives or a doctor not being available if needed. I'm aiming for VBAC and will be in a hospital rather than at home as we live a good half an hour away and don't want to risk an ambulance not being available if we needed to transfer. Would be gutted if DP couldn't be with me but will have to do what's safest. We're depending on my mother for childcare so that could be a factor too.
On the upside, I feel very grateful that I will have a secure income in the form of maternity pay and no childcare costs to worry about. DP can largely WFH so we're lucky there too.

@itzybitzy and @TheWildPlaces - welcome to my thread! I just think nice to have somewhere to voice stress over this as it’s quite a specific concern and not everyone gets it (my DH being very unhelpful as doesn’t seem to know why I want a plan in my head NOW).

@EasterEggz - very worrying with an ELCS booked. As @thewildplaces says, concern is around lack of staff/lack of time for women in labour.

It’s a natural thing and women give birth in fields etc around the world, but it’s just extremely stressful not being sure what will happen/how to mentally prepare.

We're depending on my mother for childcare so that could be a factor too

Same! Hadn’t even thought of this.

Don't feel comfortable having a home birth as I had a few complications with my first

I feel you! I didn’t have complications but he was large so they expected some, and it was fucking horrible. The idea of being away from medical equipment/midwives not making it to my house etc terrifies me.

@crispysausagerolls my dh is the same. He's not worried in the slightest and says everything will be fine. But there's no way he can know that.
I had a forceps delivery for my first and don't think there's any reason why I couldn't have a home birth this time but I wouldn't feel comfortable with it as I live 40 mins from the hospital should anything go wrong.
I feel a bit silly worrying about something which might work out fine in the end but it's all Iv been thinking about for the last two days 🙁.

@itzybitzy

Not silly to worry, at all! As you know, labour is horrible at the best of times, when things happen in a controlled environment with a team of healthy, available midwives or doctors on call!

I'm due on June but I think by then it will all blow over surely. And even if it doesn't, it won't be midwives and obstetricians being called to deal with Coronavirus?

@Overthinker1988

The peak is expected May- end of June