Is anyone else feeling nervous re covid?

[Kittyswhiskers]

I am fully vaccinated (pfizer, but 4 months apart due to a change in the guidelines) and a nurse. I work in what is considered a ‘safe’ area within a hospital.

I hate the masks and the social distancing and everything but I’m feeling really nervous about the complete lifting of restrictions. Nurses are supposed to be working from home from 28 weeks unless guidelines change and I suppose they’ll be scrapping that soon. I am all for getting back to normal but the midwife has told me that even if you do catch covid and have mild symptoms, the risk of blood clots is much higher, and the risk of still births etc is slightly increased. I know my pregnancy is making my anxiety a lot worse (was previously on antidepressants for anxiety/depression before I found out I was pg) I would love for some hand holds and general encouragement from other pregnant ladies.

I’m getting more stressed about it! I had AZ vaccine before i got pregnant but doctors and midwifes won’t recommend the second until after I’ve had the baby…due to AZ not being recommended. I asked if I could mix them but they said no. I don’t feel comfortable and would rather have a vaccine but reluctant to have one with no data on effects in pregnancy 🤷‍♀️. Might speak to the consultant at my 1st appt to get a third opinion. I just want a medical professional to say yes it’s perfectly safe but so far haven’t had this reassurance…..stick between a rock and Na hard place!

Just coming up to 28 weeks here and also feeling anxious. I’ve had my first vaccination and will be booking my second once it’s been 8 weeks from the first. I had to argue for that today though, as the receptionist at my GP surgery was saying it still had to be the full 12 weeks between jabs.

I feel really torn with wanting to live life a little before the baby arrives, and managing the risks. I am lucky I can work from home. I have a DD at nursery so there’s risk there but otherwise I can isolate as much as I need to. Due to this pregnancy, and one last year that ended in miscarriage at 16 weeks, I’ve still not managed to see my parents since the start of covid, and I really wanted to try and do normal things over the summer, but feeling very vulnerable.

I'm currently 22 weeks and feeling pretty anxious about it all today 😟 I can't really do valuable wfh so have been working in the office full-time. It's not public facing which I am grateful for, but there are 200 - 300 of us on site so lots of opportunity for someone to bring in covid! We're meant to stay 2m apart, and to wear masks whenever we're away from our desks but this often doesn't happen. Colleagues often come up to my desk and pull down their mask to start speaking to me and I have to awkwardly ask them to put their mask back up...
I don't feel like my manager is taking the coronavirus risk during pregnancy particularly seriously. I told them six weeks ago that I was pregnant and they're meant to write a risk assessment pretty sharpish. They emailed me the draft today and it doesn't mention coronavirus at all..! 🙄 So the anxiety of being pregnant with cases going up and restrictions being relaxed, and colleagues not being particularly careful in the office as it is, coupled with the anxiety of my manager not even acknowledging that coronavirus is a risk during pregnancy is not helping my stress levels right now!

I’m having a bad evening. The cases just keep going up and I’m feeling more and more terrified. My colleague is going to a party this weekend with over 100+ people, I think it’s for someone who got married last year but they’re having a ‘wedding party’ then I will see him on Monday and I keep imagining me catching covid and being seriously unwell and leaving my children. I can’t seem to stop crying.

@Kittyswhiskers :flowers:

I can't tell you not to worry. We're all worried. But try to let it go for now and have a nice evening.

www.boots.com/boots-protective-ffp2-nr-face-masks-5s-10292473
These are the masks I meant. They work out as £2 each. If you keep it on at work, it will actually protect you, I understand. It may not be lovely wearing one of these all day but it may be better than the alternative, or at least make you feel better about having to be there.

(You can get them from amazon etc too, probably a bit cheaper, but personally I'd trust Boots a bit more to sell a decent quality thing. )

💐, I mean.

Thank you @Soverymuchfruit I could try one of these. I think I might be able to get them through work too if I was to ask for them. I’m being asked to do things at work that are making me uncomfortable and I definitely need to be more vocal. Whether it’s a perceived or real risk, I don’t know, but I feel like the walls are closing in on me at the moment