Which specific moment from this will stay with you forever?

[RosieLemonade]

Positive or negative.

Going to an emergency dental appt on the first day of lockdown. 1, with much reassurance from the receptionist that I was allowed to go. No drilling. It’s a 15 min drive /6 miles and I didn’t see a soul.

Going for a hospital scan on my own and seeing two midwives kitted out in full ppe. It wasn’t good news.

I hope everything’s all right now, Essential.

Ah, congratulations on a healthy baby though @bottleofvodka

Needing formula for my newborn and driving to 5 different supermarkets one evening and couldn’t get any I’m any of them. I remember feeling really stressed and worried that I wouldn’t be able to get some.
Thankfully while doing the night feed that night I checked the boots website a d some had come back in stock so managed to order some.

@SupermarketStress
Your comment about people getting pregnant during the pandemic is disgusting and uncalled for. The world doesn’t revolve around covid life goes on. We have friends who have been trying for 6 years with 3 miscarriages their IVF has finally worked she just had her 12 week scan don’t you dare call her and people like her selfish! The NHS is not the national covid service! My baby was born in July am I selfish too for taking precious resources away from covid patients?

[quote Katie517]@SupermarketStress
Your comment about people getting pregnant during the pandemic is disgusting and uncalled for. The world doesn’t revolve around covid life goes on. We have friends who have been trying for 6 years with 3 miscarriages their IVF has finally worked she just had her 12 week scan don’t you dare call her and people like her selfish! The NHS is not the national covid service! My baby was born in July am I selfish too for taking precious resources away from covid patients?[/quote]
I have my opinion and you have yours. If your friend’s DNA is that important to the world then great.

Also hearing the following phrases I’m so tired of now:

“Vulnerable and shielding”
“Key Worker”
“Frontline”

Blah blah blah

@Crazycactuslady

Every single thing in my birth plan being cancelled, travelling for an hour in labour and then having to introduce my new baby boy to my parents via Skype. They didn't meet him until he was almost 3 months old. He's their only grandchild, and I very much doubt there will be any others

On the up side, months of avoiding being ambushed by the outlaws so I could get to grips with being a new mum.

It's sad that you refer to your baby's grandparents in such different ways, one set your sad didn't meet him until he was three months, his other grandparents you are rude and dismissive of. Whatever you think of them they are as much his grandparents as your parents are. I wonder if your son's father thinks in the same twisted way?

@SupermarketStress don’t be nasty.

@Katie517 you are spoiling a lovely thread with your cuntyness. Please stop.

Sorry @Katie517 tagged wrong person. @SupermarketStress that was for you.

Not making light of anything at all that anyone has said

But tonight as I got undressed

I took off my crop top and thought

"Wonder when I'll wear a proper bra again"

[quote FossilisedFanny]@SupermarketStress don’t be nasty.[/quote]
Nasty? To not want to see medical resources wasted and new lives brought into a pandemic fuelled world? 🤦‍♀️

Your still spoiling it @SupermarketStress

Just ignore Supermarket Stress - clearly a poster looking for attention, don't give it to them

Oooh @SupermarketStress wow!!! Hold off there!

People have babies, get over your self 🧐

Reading my little girl's school planner entry for the last day.
"we did art today and i got a merit. Today is out very last day of school because of the corona virus"

During the first lockdown my neighbour and I took a fence panel out between our gardens and used to sit at a distance with a cup of tea just enjoying the silence, it became our little routine.

I was queuing at Morrison’s with a full trolley and the lady at the till removed her mask for a breather just as I reached the front. I immediately felt panicky and sick. She scanned the first few items and I was shaking so much that I dropped the milk and it burst. So I freaked out, left all my groceries and just ran out of the store. I didn’t feel safe being that close to someone with no mask. Sat in my car and absolutely sobbed because I felt so scared. Then I was furious because how dare she! A whole roller coaster of emotions and I never went back, I started shopping at Tesco.

@SupermarketStress

Going shopping on 20 Feb last year for supplies and advising friends they probably should but was ignored.

The sheer self absorbed people who are continuing to pressure the health services by getting pregnant during a pandemic.

Seeing friends in the less locked down spots, total bright spots! This winter lockdown has been foul.

Let me guess, you've already had your kids, so everyone who hasn't should just suck it up and remain childless forever?

The good-
Spending much more time together as a family.
Those sunny Spring & summer days with the peaceful walks you just weren’t used to.
Hearing the birds...

The bad-
Kids missing school, friends and DD slowly unravelling.
My anxiety watching the government make cock-up after cock-up with not taking the virus seriously; no PPE, shitty test and trace, £billions wasted on contracts for the boys, the feeling that there are very no adults in charge right now... that’s not gone away.
Getting COVID
Seeing people in masks all the time :( and the weirdness of that.

Happily childfree thankyou 😃😃😃

@SupermarketStress what a shitty thing to say! I sense some bitterness if I’m honest. Not sure what your story is nor do I care but talk about being insensitive. Your talking about pregnant women being selfish yet you’ve failed to realise that the only reason the nhs is overwhelmed is because selfish people that couldn’t follow rules and a government that should have done something a lot sooner.

So very sorry to read all the surreal and sad ones.

I remember the last couple of days just before the decision to lock down, the last time I commuted. It was the first time I saw the disposable PPE style masks for sale in a pharmacy, a handwritten sign on the door saying they had them - one box on the counter, of about 50 and for sale singly. Waiting for the train on the platform - this was the afternoon so not very crowded - I remember counting people and weighing up my chances as to how full or empty the carriage would be as to whether I'd get on or wait.

Other memories include trying to make the best of the beautiful early weather in the garden, clearing out the shed thoroughly etc, but still feeling trapped in.

When Holby City donated a working ventilator to the NHS.

Watching people coming out of the office wheeling office chairs and with computer monitors under their arms. It looked like they'd raided the office but obviously just taking what they wanted to work from home.

When a woman from the NHS was interviewed on the news in March and said they would be burying some of their colleagues

Taking my child home from school and not knowing when he'd return. Turned out to be 6 months later, a timescale I wouldn't have predicted.