Giving birth & Covid

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I’m a first time mum due in 5 weeks so everything will be completely new to me. Ladies who have had a baby in the last couple of months, how have you found your experience in regards to COVID? What guidelines did you and your partner have to follow? Thanks in advance

I gave birth 9 days ago.
I attended triage twice and had to do this alone my partner waited in the car. If I was to give birth on the doctor led unit he wouldn't have been allowed in until I was 4cm
The third time I called in there was room for me in the midwife led unit and my partner was allowed in with me from the start. I was 10cm at this point so it wouldn't have made much difference in reality.
We had a 5h wait after she was born for a bed to be available on the ward. We spent this time in the birthing room which was nice.
Our hospital has really good visitation and my partner could be with me between 8am and 8pm. I was in for 3 days so this made a difference. A friend of mine at a different hospital was limited to 2h a day. The ward was busy and we had to chase them for observations that needed doing every 4h because they were busy but that could easily happen in a noncovid world too!

I gave birth 2 weeks ago today, FTM as well. I went to the hospital about 4-5 times before they admitted me but that was due to not being 4cm dilated and they didn't want to keep me in with partners not being allowed in until active labour as I would have been alone all day. Around 5pm I was 4cm so they took me to my own room and then brought my partner round, our hospital rules state online that partners are only allowed in for the birth and then they're allowed to visit for 2 hours a day. My partner was allowed to stay with me throughout the whole night (I didn't give birth until the following morning) and then I was kept in another night in which he was allowed to stay. The day I gave birth they were super super busy so I wasn't checked in on that much but I appreciated that more so we could spend some time with the baby, we were also allowed to stay in the delivery room as well which meant no being put on a ward with numerous people as this was something I was anxious about! I'd say it was such a positive experience considering what's going on at the moment and I couldn't fault the care both me and my partner received whilst being there! X