Hello all, I hope you don’t mind me joining, I’m so glad I found this thread!
Have been feeling increasingly anxious about life over the next few months, but lovely to find such a positive supportive thread away from all the scaremongering and drama. @RapidRainbow Thanks so much for that post in particular it’s very encouraging.
I’m 25 weeks pregnant and feeling pretty low about how the rest of my pregnancy will go right now, the next 12 weeks of social distancing basically takes me up to almost due date. Been having anxiety in this pregnancy anyway due to a fairly traumatic birth with my DD and the things that were helping me cope and making me feel ok about the birth such as my weekly pregnancy yoga class and an upcoming hypnobirthing class have all been understandably cancelled now. I have still been commuting on a busy tram and working in a big open plan office until today so feel pleased in that regard at least about the new guidance, I just went in this morning to collect my laptop etc and now working from home. Very odd suddenly clearing my desk and saying bye to colleagues though as in won’t be back in now before my mat leave starts - not quite how I’d pictured finishing!
DH is also now wfh, and I imagine it’s only a matter of time before DDs nursery closes... don’t know how we will cope!! I also need to face up to cancelling DD’s 3rd birthday party next month which she will be very upset about, it’s the first birthday she’s been old enough to be excited about and has been talking about what friends she wants to invite and what cake she wants etc for the last few months after attending lots of her friends’ parties
I’m half wondering if the weather is good if we could manage some small birthday picnic in the park where we could all sit not too close to each other so we still do something to mark the occasion?!
Anyway sorry I’ve rambled on enough... my positive thought for this afternoon is I’ll have an extra hour from finishing work before picking DD up from nursery as no commute!