With the outbreak changing daily, HealthyWomen CEO and maternal-fetal nurse BBCRN discusses how coronavirus will impact expectant mothers.
Eunice Foster, who is due to give birth to her second child this month, worries how the coronavirus outbreak will impact her experience. When Eunice Foster goes to the hospital to give birth to her second child sometime this month, she and her husband will bring an odd addition to their overnight bag: masks.
For now, Foster, 36, takes comfort in the fact that her husband, Judon, can come into the delivery room. Hospitals around the state have limited visitors, making exceptions for one person per patient in places like hospice or the maternity ward. She said she can address many basic questions, and that may stop mothers from taking babies to doctors’ offices or the hospital unnecessarily, where they would face increased risk of contracting the virus.
She also worries that a midwife could bring the virus into her Teaneck home, and she has no way to test or screen them. She would rather take any precautions she can and go to Holy Name, where she has the familiarity of her doctor. “I don’t know what’s scarier: Going to the hospital and giving birth, or giving birth in my living room,” she said. “I like the idea of having a doctor and every educated person around me. I’ll have a doctor, but I also have potentially, all of this COVID-19 around me.”
For healthy moms and babies, the hospital may recommend discharging them in 24 hours, as she said she’s seen from working at Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center.
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