My husband is foreign and is awaiting his visa approval. He has a strong immigration history with the UK having worked and studied here before on multiple different visas. However, we are experiencing an unusual delay with his current application. (He has been in his home country due to work commitments for most of my pregnancy and applied for his visa from there. His passport is currently surrendered to UKVI while we await their decision.) I am 35 weeks pregnant today and am having to come to terms with the fact that I might have to go into labour, give birth, and have our newborn days alone. Logistically, we’ve had to be apart for the majority of my pregnancy, but this is different - I never expected to be going solo in these moments.
I know single mums do it all the time, and they are amazing.
I guess I’m just looking for advice of how to mentally prepare myself for this eventuality from anyone who has been through the same or similar. I am trying to keep at the forefront of my mind that nothing matters other than my baby being born healthy. But we have so little control over anything in pregnancy, so I guess it’s just hard to accept that I am also so powerless with regards to my husband’s visa and therefore the support I’ll get during labour/birth/newborn days…