Giving Birth During The Coronavirus Pandemic
April 17, 2020
2:30 pm
If only every time we were updated on the daily death toll from coronavirus, we could also be told the number of babies being born – wouldn’t that make this ghastly situation a little more hopeful?
This is what I thought last week as I sat on my own, in isolation, on the postnatal ward after giving birth to my second baby.
I went from weeks of pent-up anxiety about what COVID-19 could do to my pregnancy and unborn baby, to a sudden state of bliss and gratitude. A new life, in the middle of all this darkness, brought
