Lockdown - taking child to supermarket?

[mumma2b2020]

I have an 11 week old and looking to get first hand experience on whether anyone has taken their child/ren into supermarkets during lockdown? Would you even consider it? My parents and in laws have been doing our shopping for us but I really would like us to get out ourselves to do the weekly shop! X

I have been taking my 15 month old every week. No other option.

I take my baby every week. I carry her in a sling rather than sit her in the trolley, so she doesn't touch anything. It's been fine and people are actually very mindful of the fact I'm carrying a baby and give us plenty of room.

Fine imo- they’re easier to take places than toddlers

Why would you need to go as a family? Only one needs to go, other can stay home with the baby. Personally would not consider taking a baby into a supermarket right now.

I take 2yo dd. Dh is working so she has to come with me. She is bribed into staying in the trolley though.

I avoided them for a good few weeks but as things have eased I’ve taken my 14 months old for short trips. I’ve found it very hard to be housebound aside from walks and he has seemed to enjoy it! Plus I went a few times for the air con in the stifling heat. I wiped his hands and anti bac the trolley x

I appreciate we are quite unusual, but we have a 12 week old baby and neither of us have stepped foot in the shop since he was born.

If we couldn’t get an online delivery, we didn’t have it.

The shops are asking that you visit alone if possible. So leave the baby with the other parent and one go in

I haven’t taken DS8 but at 11 weeks surely it’s fine if in a sling?

I take 5 month old DD. I can go during the week with her when it's quite. I figure that's safety than waiting till the weekend when DH can have her bit the shop will be busy.

It's not a day out. One adult goes, the other stays with the baby.

I think if you don't need to take your baby to a shop than you shouldn't..

Why do other people care? It’s the parents choice, it doesn’t stop another person going into the shop (unlike 2 adults or an adult and teenager). A baby will sit in its sit or sling and look around, they are the safest age group in this pandemic anyway.

No need for a baby to go to a supermarket if there are two parents available.

@OnlyFoolsnMothers it's not the baby I'm arsed about, it's the second adult

Agree no need for two adults.
Op didn’t state her partner would go too though

She said "us" so I assume both parents.

I assumed us was OP and the baby

If you live with a partner, no. One of you goes shopping (as infrequently as practical), the other stays home with the baby. If you are a single parent / your partner works awkward hours and you have no choice - yes of course take the baby with you if you need to.
Shopping is not a leisure activity at the moment. It's probably the most risky thing you will do in a week in terms of potential exposure to virus when you're not working out of the home at the moment.

Parents in and in laws are doing our shopping and I'd like us to...

Paraphrasing but I that's what makes me assume couple

I have taken my baby but my husband works away so not easy as just leaving him with my husband. Online shop a lot is like rocking horse poop. No family close enough to shop for us. I used the sling to keep him close. Have done this since he was 5 weeks when my husband went back to work.

“ Parents in and in laws are doing our shopping and I'd like us to...”

I read that as “we resume responsibility” rather than “we go out as a couple”

I have had to take my baby out in the sling. It’s just not always possible to leave them with the other parent, as simple as people on here like to make it sound. However, I haven’t taken my toddler

Shopping is not a leisure activity at the moment actually I’d say that’s exactly what it is for a lot of people at the moment.
Like I said I can’t get het up re: a baby that will have zero impact on my shopping. Two adults get me far more annoyed.

If your parents and in laws have been doing it for you, what has changed to make you feel you need to put the most precious thing in your life at risk at just the point when everyone is getting out and about, back to work and there is a real possibility of the R rate going up?

I’ve had to take my baby to the supermarket. No other choice as my husband works away for weeks at a time and I don’t want to rely on online deliveries. Nobody batted an eyelid at us - it’s really not a big deal.

Shopping trips with mum, dad and 2 kids - ridiculous. I’ve seen this a few times - the whole family does not need to go.