With schools closing, DH working from home and me on maternity leave our circle of contact will become very small and in fact could easily be limited to just the others in the household.
However, I don't relish the idea of juggling 2 children myself for 5 months especially as my new baby is really demanding and my mum and her husband have offered to help.
Unfortunately they don't seem to grasp the seriousness of it all - just today they announced they were heading into town for lunch with friends. Thankfully they cancelled but only after the wider family gave them a hard time.
They regularly visits my 92 year old grandmother and my mums husbands sister who is very ill. They dont seem to see the issue with this and I don't believe they could stop this contact.
My mother is extremely sociable and I dont trust her not to pop into her friends for a coffee, go visit wider family etc
I don't need her help but would value it and I know my daughter will be devastated if she can't see her gran but I'm not sure I can trust them to limit contact with others.
With the schools closing I'm assuming others will need to rely on alternative childcare - how are you doing this? Are you trying to limit wider exposure or is it a case of taking what help you can get?