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The Psychic Toll of a Pandemic Pregnancy – The New York Times
Women who had Covid while expecting experienced guilt, shame and unhealthy levels of stress.
My first thought was, is this a false positive? I feel fine. And my second reaction was to start bawling, said Evert. She was scheduled to have a cesarean section with her second baby and the test was merely a formality until it was a life-changing event.
The hospital gave her a choice: She could deliver the next day and be treated as a Covid-19 patient separated from her baby with no skin-to-skin contact, per the hospitals policies. Or she could wait 10 days from the date she received the positive…
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