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June 2020 Moms
pourmeanothermocktail
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COVID-19 Talk
pourmeanothermocktail
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I know for some of us we are in shut down places so some stuff that belongs in randoms will automatically touch on virus stuff, but let's keep any quarantine/shut down specific related talk here so randoms can cover more normal-esque life.
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Me: 33
DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
Re: COVID-19 Talk
I know there was some discussion about delivery concerns in the randoms thread. I got a chance to talk to my OB at my appointment today and he thinks that the restrictions on spouses/partners during labor and recovery are absolutely insane and actually unhelpful in that they would immeasurably increase the workload on the nurses in the recovery floor who would then have to supplement care to cover the tasks that partners usually handle. He also said he can't foresee a possibility when a c-section would be bumped from the rotation as "elective" as babies have to come out somehow. With CA's heavy focus on VBAC as an option, our delivery hospital will continue to do everything possible to support moms who choose to attempt VBACs. Visitation is currently limited to a spouse/partner plus two adults (pre-identified at registration), no children under 18.
I hope this is a brighter counterpoint to the news coming out of the SF Bay Area. We'll see how it changes, but for now this was calming news for me.
<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/b3/yrp1xsaz1gan.jpg" alt="">DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
i will say, however, if it’s any help to your state of mind that I track the John’s Hopkins map religiously and most of the cases in China are resolved with no new cases.
they actually have shut down some of their Covid hospitals because they don’t have enough infected patients anymore. Since their outbreak started to get really out of control in December/January then it seems to have lasted 2-3 months. If people take social distancing seriously, there could be an end in sight.
one of the infectious disease doctors at my hospital said he believes it will have run its course by June or July. I’m holding on to the hope that that is the case.
But like others when I exit my own pity bubble I’m really worried about the people who CANT work from home and will lose their jobs. And I feel bad for kids who are going to be kept home in bad situations. And So on. I just want to know when this will go back to normal!
Then I keep thinking of all the dumb ways this virus has messed up my last couple of months of pregnancy (like having to cancel our vacation to Hawaii next month), then I feel like the biggest jerk in the world for thinking so selfishly because the real issues are so much bigger and scarier.
The one thing that does help me feel a little better, is knowing that I am not the only one who is pregnant and having to come to terms with this new reality. I would prefer if that wasn't the case for any of us, but I am grateful for this group and the fact that we can all stress/commiserate together. Hope you all are hanging in there.
DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
We are lucky in that DH can WFH indefinitely in his current position and my work is independent consulting (the company I'm currently contracted with is in Palo Alto and on shelter in place orders). We'll be financially okay one DH's income if we have to drop my work to juggle everything.
I have a lot of anxiety about how this changes things for us for delivery and 4th trimester, but I'm also hopeful that we'll figure it out with some measure of grace. I'm trying not to indulge in reading these threads or articles nonstop because managing my stress and anxiety is important to keeping my blood sugars normal, and keeping those normal is important to preserving options for us at delivery. We are very much in the one day at a time mentality right now because that's all the bandwidth I have.
I worry about my husband now. He works in a lab so he cannot work from home. No one in his department is taking it seriously and the stress and anxiety is building. I am scared he'll bring it home and I'm worried about his mental health. Not much I can do about it and it's hard to see
State issues order for anyone living in California to stay home except for essential needs. https://bit.ly/33xGu4a
This is gonna get crazy
Married: 12/19/15
BFP: 9/4/17
EDD: 5/16/18
DD born 5/10/18
Postpartum Complications
BFP: 10/1/19
EDD: 6/12/20
I'm so tapped out. A bunch of my prepped foods for GD just got lost and things feel ten times harder than they were this morning.
Hopefully tech will year mask? And you can stock back up quickly. Not that I love anyone going to the stores, but of course everyone has to at some point. Hugs.
My husband's computer monitor died this week too. He's working from home. It was not a big deal though, I gave him mine which was small and inefficient, but avoided a store. We've since ordered a new cord for our tertiary monitor (his is really and truly dead) and now he is using that. No real work disruption for him. He was still pretty upset though and I think shaken just because again REALLY???? RIGHT NOW this thing had to break????
I hope the soup turns out great, and that replacing supplies gets a bit easier. Around here our less common stores are doing better with stocking and low customer volume. Woodman's has paper goods and groceries in stock, and Asian Supermarkets are nearly empty, super clean, with lots of fun frozen goods.
But cry first, grieve over the added chaos, be mad and sad. And hopefully have working dishwasher and freezer soon!
DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
Married: 12/19/15
BFP: 9/4/17
EDD: 5/16/18
DD born 5/10/18
Postpartum Complications
BFP: 10/1/19
EDD: 6/12/20
I did join a FB group for women who are pregnant during all this and it's been...interesting. One woman posted about how she really wants to be a mom and she had been planning to try around now, should she still move forward with those plans? And all I can think is no, that sounds like a terrible idea! Fevers in the first trimester are far more dangerous. People also joke about all the Corona babies that will happen as a result of being quarantined, and again, this sounds like a terrible idea. Who knows when this thing ends and when you can realistically receive quality care again?
In semi-related news, an anesthesiologist who worked with OB patients tested positive at the hospital I'll be delivering in, so that's fun.
I'm having a hard time with this having been am unplanned baby in the first place, and we debated whether we were going to choose to move forward with this pregnancy. Months later, being disabled during this time so I can't even effectively take care of the two kids I have, especially during this time where running around the house and yard plus being able to be up on my feet dancing and playing would be HUGE considering they no longer get to play with other kids...and how scary things look now and moving forward...it's really hard to know that we could have been going through this time without me expecting. I'm not exactly regretting our decision to keep the baby as much as regretting how hard that decision is hitting now that things have gone from not-ideal with finances timing etc, to astronomically terrible with the virus and disability too.
I just read an article this morning that Hong Kong who had just relaxed restrictions was back to outbreaks and closing things back down.
I don't do well at all with optimism that gets dashed...so I'm now firmly into believing this is a many many months impact globally on our lives. Spanish flu was 18 months of issues....
DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
@wildspiritmama As a scientist, I want to assure you that we don't fail to issue guidance because we want to stand in the middle of the storm and say "we have no effing clue." We do it because that's the only responsible and credible thing to do when there isn't enough data to make an assessment. Because this is novel, we haven't amassed enough collective experience, much less controlled data, to say much of anything with any degree of statistical confidence. Public health officials, in most cases, are doing their absolute best to extrapolate, plan, and respond to an entirely unforeseen situation. We are all, sadly, pregnant or not, part of the first terrible experience with this disease and there will be retrospective analyses for decades dissecting what did and didn't work. It's scary to be at the forefront of something we didn't choose into, but the people I know who are still in the lab right now are working just as tirelessly as our medical professionals and first responders to get more concrete and actionable information, or to convert research spaces into testing facilities, or even to donate their time (at personal risk and beyond their already essential jobs) to staffing testing centers that are coming online.