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COVID PTSD

lulam13lulam13 member
in December 2022 Moms
Hey all. Did anyone else have a baby during Covid? I had my daughter in June 2020, went to be induced May 2020 so it was like peak Covid shut down times. Anyway, it totally changed everything for us. When I found out I was pregnant it was September 2019 so Covid wasn’t even a thing. Well this time around things are a lot different but I’m still anxious about it all playing into this whole pregnancy and new baby. I worry in the winter months cases will rise and I may be forced to potentially deliver alone (was the policy with my first but changed a week before I went into labor), thankfully my boyfriend was healthy and able to be with me but no one else (it was quite hard). I’m also having some anxiety over this new baby being protected. We had a lot of tough times with friends and family who weren’t respectful of our boundaries when our daughter was first born (as vaccines weren’t around and masks were just starting to become a thing). So I’m just curious if anyone is going through the same. I’m incredibly excited but still get pangs of all the anxiety and scary experiences I endured the first time around. 
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Re: COVID PTSD

  • portentosaportentosa member
    edited April 2022
    I haven't been pregnant since before the pandemic, my kids are 9 and 7 years old, but covid is very much on my mind. When everything shut down I was still working as a research scientist and my husband was still working as an airport security guard. One of us brought covid home and we were both very sick July 2020, but my husband never fully recovered and is now a stay-at-home dad on permanent disability. My whole household is fully vaxed but we still mask up and do everything we can to keep covid from entering our house again. And with a new baby... that will be even more important. We have a couple family members not vaccinated and my husband and I have talked about how we are going to have to draw the line with them on no in-person visitation without vaccine and mask. Baby zoom calls instead.

    I'm so sorry that you had such a hard experience before. I really hope for you and for all of us that this year will be better.


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