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In her words: Partner tells of miracle COVID birth – Chronicle
The partner of the Queensland transgender dad who made medical history by becoming the first person in the western world to birth a COVID baby naturally tells of the stir their “unconventional little family” caused in the birthing ward.
I was the fifteenth case of COVID-19 in Queensland.
I contracted the virus while on a trip to the UK for my grandmother’s funeral and infected my partner, who was nine months pregnant, on my return.
My partner birthed his baby while in quarantine, making medical history as the first birth to COVID-positive parents outside of China and the first unassisted COVID birth in the world.
We’re a rainbow family: I’m a queer solo parent by choice and I conceived my child on my own using a friend as th…
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