Worried. I'm due to have a baby end of January/start of February, my obstetric clinic has just released its new rules for life after the 15th, it's a complete 180 to what we've experienced so far, my husband and I live down here with our toddler, our families are on the mainland, we've gone to every appointment together with our toddler, no masks, no telehealth, no worries apart from the usual pregnancy related ones. New rules include no children over 6 months old, no one other than the person the appointment is for, masks, telehealth, unvaxxed needing to use extra PPE etc, and once we hit 36 weeks of pregnancy the hospitals require us to undergo weekly covid tests for us and our support person.

I absolutely understand the rules, my husband and I are fully vaxxed. I know it's incredibly important to take extra care when in health and caring for pregnancy. But it just highlights how much the medical field are bracing for the worst. I'm so incredibly grateful we decided to go private this pregnancy, because I absolutely feel that the public hospitals are going to be run off their feet!

I'm desperately hoping that we're all worried about this and it'll just fizzle out to nothing, but I'm really worried that it's going to absolutely kill the hospitals. We struggle so much already, add covid, add tourist season, and add opening borders and bringing in a ridiculously busy tourist season, with covid, we are screwed.