Deciding when to give a shot to conceive a baby can be complicated during the best of times.
Even when your jobs are stable, are you sure yourereallyfinancially ready?
What about sibling age gaps and too-short parental leaves and too-high daycare costs?
Now lets throw a global health crisis into the mix, too, and see how we feel.
My husband wouldnt be there for the ultrasound.
In-person appointments with my doctor might not even be possible.
The stakes for an easy, healthy pregnancy would be much higher.
All the testing we had wanted because of our ages would possibly be deemed unnecessary.
I would probably make a run at find a midwife who could facilitate a home birth.
Lands points are all valid.
What condition will our hospitals and healthcare professionals be in nine months from now?
Will you be allowed only one support person in with you during labor and delivery?
Or no support people?
How will prenatal care and appointments be affected over the course of the upcoming weeks and months?
Researchers are still learning how COVID-19 affects pregnant women.
Current reports show that pregnant women do not have more severe symptoms than the general public.
But more research is needed on this.
After birth, a newborn can get the virus if they are exposed to it.
Even so, they cant promise the information is always up-to-date.
Hopefully by then we know more about the virus and how to fight it.
I cannot imagine going in for OB appointments or giving birth in the next year…
So maybe we end up with just one kid?
Its a personal decision without a clear or correct answer.
Do you hold off temporarily or indefinitely?
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