Three pregnant health-care workers open up about the stress and struggle of choosing between their responsibility to be a patient advocate and their need to be a safe home for their unborn children.
by making weekly video diaries for her unborn baby, an oral history of a turbulent time, and a testament of survival.
Even more vulnerable due to an autoimmune condition, Leah is grateful that partners in her small community hospital banded together to take over her in-person workload and kept her out of the ICU. She spent some time poring over the little known about pregnant women and COVID-19 and spoke to her obstetrician about the best course of action.
Even though she has just ended a five-night streak of overnight shifts, Rebecca*, an ER doctor for a large hospital system in the southern U.S., sounds surprisingly energetic. According to her employer’s policy, pregnant doctors should continue working on the condition that every effort be made to accommodate them in “low-risk” service areas.
To complicate matters further, Rebecca’s husband also works in a medical setting and could potentially be exposed to COVID-19 at work. “The reality is that any one of us can get this from anywhere. We’re just at a higher risk because of what we do. I know at least five other pregnant ER doctors and nurses, some in cities with really scary numbers, who continue to work.”
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