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Go easy on me mn, support bubble question

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purplejungle · 06/01/2021 08:57

Struggling mum here so please try to be gentle...

My elderly grandmother who lives alone formed a support bubble with me. She doesn't need any physical care but gets very lonely. She has told me my visits are all she has to live for.

I have an 8mo baby who I am finding much more challenging now that he is moving everywhere and needing much more entertaining. The first lockdown was ok, all he needed was cuddles, it feels much harder this time around.

I am now entitled in my own right to form a bubble because I have an under one. Had my grandmother not already formed a bubble with me, I would undoubtedly form my bubble with my parents. They can support with looking after the baby to give me a break which my grandmother can't. They will also be my childcare when I return to work so I need my baby to be comfortable around them.

My grandmother doesn't leave the house or have any other visitors.

We go nowhere else- we don't go to the shop (we have a delivery), partner works from home etc.

My parents limit their contacts out of the home but do have to go out for work, shopping etc.

My proposal is to see my grandmother, then see my parents the next day, then isolate for 10 days and see my grandmother again.

Any (kind) thoughts?

OP posts:
withmycoffee · 12/01/2021 12:24

@FamilyOfAliens @Orf1abc before you go all attack dog at the OP, you need to read the rules again. You are wrong. The OP can form a childcare bubble with parents for her dc and continue to be support in her grandmothers bubble.

movingonup20 · 12/01/2021 12:33

You can have one support bubble plus a childcare bubble but you can't then socialise with your parents. You asked what is legal, this is what the law says. This is what the government means by people twisting the rules to suit them. I would not be surprised if then restrict households to a single bubble from next week

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