Is Corona halting anyone ready to "try"?

[Jen8888]

Due to start trying for baby number 2 after the summer (DS is now 2).

I'm feeling like with Corona, I need to give it more thought.

I'm just so nervous about it.

My younger sister is pregnant with her first and is due in July.

I'm terrified for her, birth partners currently not allowed to attend scans etc and there are rumours that they soon won't be attending births.

Anyone else in this boat?

We had vague plans to try for number 3 in the summer, but we won’t anytime soon. I’ll be 39 this year so it may mean no 3rd at all, depending how things go but like you I see the anxiety for friends who are pregnant just now and don’t feel I could go ahead. I do have two though and may feel differently if I was planning my second. In a few months things could look different, I think it’s worth waiting to see if you feel you have time.

@Merename I don't blame you!

It changes everything, I'm hoping it doesn't stop us, just delays things perhaps x

I know it's scary, but in your shoes, you have at least 9 months for this settle down. It should be plenty of time. Personally, I am convinced there is nothing to the rumours about banning birth partners -- it's the product of anxiety.

Either life will return to normal at some point or it won't but either way, if you want another baby, if you want your DS to have a sibling close in age, isn't that more important than who can be at a scan? I'm due in June and I wouldn't miss out on having this baby for the world after years of infertility. I know if you haven't been through infertility there's perhaps more of a sense that you can time it perfectly, but there is no perfect timing and life is too short to miss out on something so important to you because of fear. xx

I had a miscarriage at 9 weeks in February and we have decided we are going to start trying again as soon as I get the first period. Why should we wait? There is no evidence to support the virus can affect pregnancies so far as for scans going alone won’t bother me. Things change very quickly and no one can predict the future is there ever a “right time?”

@ryvitabrevis I love your post and huge congratulations! I am also pregnant (only 8 weeks). We conceived before there were any cases in England, and I didn't realise how bad it would get but I also wouldn't change it for the world. As long as I stay healthy then who can go to the scans etc is only small details. Good luck for the birth of your child in June! I am sure you will be amazing!

I will be 40 in July. If I were younger I would definitely wait as the virus hasn’t been around long enough for us to know whether it has any effect on babies when women catch it in the first trimester. However for me waiting increases my risk of miscarriage, trisomies etc. and might mean we will miss out on having a second child. It’s a tough one and we haven’t decided what to do yet.

Yes I really want to try for baby number 3 soon but I'm wary. I have a history of recurrent miscarriage so it all feels like the anxiety might be a bit much right now. Hopefully in a few months things will be easier.

I also have a two year old and a nearly 1 year old. If they extended the 12 week quarantine to keep pregnant women in for longer if' find it awful not being able to go out of the house.