Travel to pick up things for upcoming birth

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Hi

First time poster - apologies if there is a thread already on this but couldn’t find one.

Currently 35 weeks, due beginning of June. We have relatives who live an hours drive away with a lot of things for us for after the birth, e.g. clothes, car seat, baby carrier etc, which we want to collect from them before the birth, but don’t know if this would be classed as essential travel.

Has anyone been stopped doing anything similar, or been advised if it was viewed as an adequate reason? The chance of the baby coming in the next couple of weeks is very small, but we’ll need it at some point, and I don’t know if the travel guidance will change in that time.

Any help is appreciated!

I think it’s essential. Someone else posted similar thing about nappies and clothes and it was agreed it was better than going to shops for the stuff. The suggestion was for the person who current has them to put them outside and then the other person to pick them up so that 2m distancing still observed.

Thanks for your views! Yeah we would ask them to leave the items outside for us, won’t be breaking social distancing rules in that sense. It’s just if we get stopped en-route and the police accept it as a reason as they’re being quite strict in our area.

We've done this. Had allowed bil and sil to use all out bits from first baby, and I am 35 weeks now with dc2. They dropped to us and were prepared to explain if needed- felt it came under the category of 'supporting a vulnerable person' if an explanation was required.