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Motherhood- a most beautiful and painful journey
I gave birth to my second daughter during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The experience leading up to delivery was somewhat traumatic. All we kept hearing about were deaths and the unquantifiable risks of coronavirus to pregnant women and their unborn babies. Just before lockdown, we had returned from our holiday in Paris- our last hurrah as a family of three before our second daughter’s arrival. Little did we know that this would be our last semblance of normality for a long while. Soon after we returned from Paris, lockdown was imposed. My plans of wanting to do things differently for my second delivery, postpartum recovery and maternity leave…