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MY PANDEMIC PREGNANCY


We asked you to tell us about your pandemic pregnancies. Your responses are heart-wrenching, haunting and touching.

Last summer, we asked: “Are you or your partner pregnant -- or have you delivered in the past few months?” ... “We want to hear from you.”

My pandemic post-pregnancy: ‘People don’t realize how lonely the NICU experience can be’

In 2016, Valerie Collignon gave birth at 35 weeks, which resulted in a week-long NICU stay that she described as “traumatizing.”

My pandemic pregnancy: ‘You wait that long -- it was not exactly what I expected to have happen’

Hilary Blevins wasn’t sure if she’d ever be a mom.

My pandemic pregnancy loss: ‘The silence told me everything I needed to know’

In writing this series, I’ve enjoyed hearing and learning about what’s been different, how people have been coping and adapting, and think about my own family’s timing and how we’ll manage it all.

My pandemic pregnancy: ‘I wanted to be ready at any point. I didn’t know it’d be the next day.’

It certainly wasn’t planned this way, but Claire Nackashi had to deal with almost every aspect of her pregnancy, pandemic-style.

My pandemic pregnancy, turned pandemic homebirth: ‘It was a very intimate setting’

When Kriss Reed learned she and her husband were expecting their first child, she started researching homebirths.

My pandemic pregnancy: ‘Sure enough, I have (a brain aneurysm)’

In an effort to be proactive about her health, last summer, Julianne C. scheduled a test. She had no idea where it would lead: Namely, to two life-changing discoveries.

My pandemic pregnancy: ‘I was lucky I acted fast’

Author’s note: This is not MY personal story, per se, (despite the “my pandemic pregnancy” headline), but a story told by our readers, week by week. Today’s is shared by Yvonne.

My pandemic pregnancy: ‘I wanted to celebrate my rainbow’

When Kayla Molina found out she was pregnant, she felt excited, hopeful and optimistic.

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My pandemic pregnancy, positive for COVID-19: ’This is definitely different’

When she was six months along in her pregnancy, Patricia Alvarez tested positive for coronavirus.

My pandemic pregnancy: ’We’re 18 years old ... We had to jump in’

When Delicia Garza’s newborn daughter underwent surgery, an operation that required an overnight hospital stay, the San Antonio woman said it felt like the walls were closing in on her.

My pandemic pregnancy: From infertility to cancer to IVF to a 20-week scare: ‘It happened exactly how it was supposed to’

When Hillary Calhoun’s fertility doctor brought her in for a procedure and then a nurse called her just a few short business days later, asking her to come into the office immediately, the now-36-year-old had a hunch something wasn’t right.

My pandemic pregnancy: ‘If we make it through this, we’re really meant to be’

When Jennifer Cardenas found out she was pregnant, she envisioned a baby shower surrounded by her friends and family, carefree spring days filled with walks in the park, and her delivery, with her husband and her mother by her side.

My (hopeful) pandemic pregnancy: Inside the world of IVF and COVID-19 -- ‘It’s terrifying’

Going though in vitro fertilization, or IVF, under normal circumstances, can be a challenge, both mentally and physically -- and for some, that’s phrasing it mildly.

My pandemic pregnancy: ‘We were sitting there with a happy, healthy newborn, and then suddenly, it switched’

When Melissa Vick gave birth to her first child, a son, in May 2017, she and her husband Greg felt like they were able to share him with their friends and family, almost immediately.

Pregnant during the pandemic? We want to hear about it!

Are you or your partner pregnant -- or have you delivered in the past few months? We want to hear from you.

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