Coronavirus has left a lasting impact on new parents and medical providers, new research finds

While COVID-19 brought much of normal life screeching to a halt last year, it couldn’t stop new lives from being born, but the impact on parents and medical professionals is just coming to light.

The circumstances the children of 2020 were born into were unlike any other in living memory, with a global pandemic spreading across the world and restrictions limiting many of the day-to-day activities usually taken for granted.

International and interstate borders were shut, entering a hospital was out of the question…