What has lockdown been like for you, parenting, pregnancy and birth?

[stayandsea]

Wishing you all a healthy, calm start to the new year during these strange times. I am wondering how babies will be impacted by the changes related to the long lockdown. Especially those expecting child and parenting infants, how do you think the cohort of 2020-21 will be affected? Discuss here and if you can spare the time, anonymously complete this 15-20 min online survey on the impact of the pandemic on your life as a parent. Thank you for your willingness to share your experiences and please, would be so appreciated if you could share the link and more info about the survey with other new and expecting moms - we can use all the help we can get to understand the nature of 'new life in the new normal'.

I’ve tried to complete your survey but it won’t let me as I’m currently in my 1st trimester. At no point could I indicate my first baby is 9 months old and a lockdown #1 baby which I assume would be data of use to you?

Thanks for being willing to participate! Ah unfortunately you're quite in the middle of our criteria - and congratulations on #2, my golly I can only imagine how your last few months have been. I think we'll tinker with the survey next week to open it up to moms with babies under 1 year old, but for now we are just looking at the last 6 months for newborns (it's hard to remember, with sleepless nights, how they were) and from 2nd trimester on. When you're at that point (after first scan, in typical times), the link should still work, but I'll send you the link over again or repost it if we change the criteria (don't want to be a bother but we need and appreciate the volunteers :)

I had a baby at the end of November and the hospital was great! Bit shit partner couldn't come to scans so we paid for a private scan , didn't find out the gender when they asked , it was lovely as it could be - my work was great too. Now though it's harder with a 6 week old and a toddler in a lockdown ...

You could state in your post that it's for parents of babies younger than 8 months only

I should really read the post , I just replied to the title dohhh