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Space and time is an inexorable part of motherhood. The development of intrapsychic space and time is founded in the mother-infant relationship and mothers and infants experienced particular challenges during the Covid-19 lockdown periods starting in 2020. The author explores how space and time are functions of containment and Reflective Functioning, specifically in mothering. Furthermore, movement in space and time is redolent of après-coup and has implications here. The study interviewed 11 mothers about their experience of failures in containment and RF with their children aged 0-5 years. Interviews were conducted online during the initial lockdown of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The author used Cartwright’s psychoanalytic interview tool over 2 interviews. The transcripts were then analysed using Cartwrights method. 3 major themes emerge: 1) mothers’ experience of failures in containment and RF and how this relates to time and space, 2) how mothers continue to be influenced by their history in their own mothering and 3) the concept of après-coup is relevant to how successfully mothers are able to use containment and RF. These themes emerge in the context of the Covid-19 Pandemic and lockdowns.