Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: having a baby during covid

  • Remembering your COVID birth

    Laura KahnChicago, IL The thing about having your first baby at the beginning of a pandemic is that everything seems equally strange, because you don’t have a prior kid for comparison. I wait anxiously for my son to poop, I wear a mask when I leave the house, I sanitize everything, I wake every hour—it…