Sick of covid?

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I only have one daughter. It sucks that I haven’t been able to do Normal things with her since she has been out of the newborn stage. She didn’t get to take a pic with the Easter bunny on her first Easter, didn’t get to watch a firework show on 4th of July since they were all cancelled or go to any 4th of July annual family festivals. Can’t even enjoy going to the park without the fear of covid. Her dads entire family lives in a different state and they can’t see her cuz of covid. And I feel even more guilty about allowing her more screen time at 9 months because we are home all day and she’s easily bored lol. I know you all feel me on this and relate to his post. I just feel like she’s missing out on the first year of her life due to covid and her first birthday party in November will probably be limited or canceled. Christmas will probably be cancelled, her first Christmas that she will be able to go see Santa, see christmas lights and enjoy it more ( last Christmas she was only a month old), her Halloween will probably be cancelled. Just wanted to rant lol😫😫

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I get this! I’m bummed she doesn’t get story time at the library or play dates with friends. We’re just trying to make the most of it. I also want to be able to bring her to work with me again. I am bummed she missed quite a bit in her first year, but I also know it’s more for me than her..

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10000% agree. I feel the same way. So bummed about Halloween, his birthday, and Christmas 😔

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I feel you! My doctor said it best at my annual last week: "I know this isn't the first year you expected".  And I know that's the problem, we had so many plans and ideas and expectations of the things we would get to do with our new babies and it's all mostly come crashing down. We just have to make the best of it, but it doesn't mean we can't grieve the loss of those expectations.
We had planned to visit my husband's family in India....got his passport and everything!.....and that is likely not happening now. His family wants to see the baby soooo badly and my heart aches for them. 😥
Luckily we have Santa pics from last year and my family lives up the road so we do see them regularly so that's who we will celebrate his bday with, but yeah it so sucks. Soooo sucks.

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It does suck. My daughter is about to be 3 and her first summer camp (and first time going to any kind of regular child care outside of home) was canceled, which means we still have no kid friends so no one to invite to a birthday party (not that we'd have had one anyway because covid) and this is the first year I think she'd really be into her birthday. We haven't ever had a birthday party for her before. She did Halloween for the first time last year and we had a great time, she'd definitely love it even more this year, but we won't do it. We've basically been quarantined since my son was born anyway because we were very nervous about cold and flu, so it's been a tough year so far. The only upsides are that my husband gets to spend way more time with our kids since he's not working and also the kids most likely won't remember anything from this time.

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I know how you feel my baby was also born in November and making matters worse she’s already missed her first year of life and I’ll be leaving on another rotation in November for 10 months so I’ll be missing her second

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Ughhhh preach! I thought i was aloneee

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I feel the same way mama! Holidays are so big for me and the fact that she is getting robbed of her first holidays breaks my heart. Trying to make the best of it but still so over it

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Ugh i feel the same way. I extended my maternity leave and sometimes i wish i had gone back to work because all we do is hang at home anyway. I wish we could go to the library, the park, spend time with friends...

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I get it girl!! It’s been rough to soak all this in. I feel the same. I had so many dreams to do with LO for his 1st year. It has really sucked. We had so many things planned and vacations and they all got canceled. I’m ready for this to be over. 💁🏻‍♀️

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I totally understand what you are saying but the good news is I feel like it only sucks for us. Hopefully next year things will go back to normal and our little ones won’t remember any of this anyway. I definitely don’t remember my first year of life. For now we just have to try to remain positive for our little ones.

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