{"id":410,"date":"2020-07-23T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koto.local\/raising-babies-during-covid\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T16:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T23:37:44","slug":"raising-babies-during-covid","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/koto.org\/es\/news\/raising-babies-during-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Babies During COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Left: Patrick Latcham. Picture courtesy of Carly Latcham. Right: Gavin Dohnal. Picture coutresy of Zoe Dohnal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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While a pandemic reshapes the world, Zoe Dohnal and her husband Ryan have been raising a one year-old named Gavin. Flexibility, she says, has been key. Especially in the early weeks of the pandemic. They still had jobs, but they also had a toddler who couldn\u2019t be left alone and a house they couldn\u2019t leave much.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I would have to wake up at five in the morning to do some work before it would be my turn to look after Gavin, and then he would do some work,\u201d she says. \u201cYou know, we\u2019d switch off. But our full workday would probably start at five and end at midnight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Balancing a pandemic and a job and a child, they say, was hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cCOVID has been really hard from a mental health standpoint for a lot of people,\u201d she notes. \u201cBut when you\u2019re raising a kid and trying to do a full-time job, you feel like you\u2019re failing at everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTook me a while to learn how to be flexible on a daily basis,\u201d Ryan adds.<\/p>\n

But Zoe and Ryan aren\u2019t just raising a one year old during COVID. They\u2019re also expecting another child in October. <\/p>\n

\u201cI know I have not given this pregnancy the same attention I gave my first one,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n

For newer parents and expecting parents, COVID has changed everything. And that\u2019s on top of a baby changing everything. <\/p>\n

\u201cHaving a baby was a joyous time,\u201d says Camilla Baca. She\u2019s a local doula, lactation counselor, and childbirth educator. \u201cYou had a blessingway, you had a baby shower, you were surrounded by people. And these moms are really isolated now, and I think that\u2019s really hard for them. This joyous time has now become kind of a stressful, isolated time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baca says having a baby is already an uncertain time. COVID just adds to that. She says she\u2019s checking in more than usual with new parents she works with and hearing, predictably, that it\u2019s a challenge. <\/p>\n

Emily McGough is hearing similar things from parents she\u2019s checking in with.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is definitely more anxiety,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

McGough is an RN at the Telluride Medical Center and a certified pediatric nurse. According to her, isolating with a new baby during the pandemic can be both good and bad. It\u2019s given parents a chance to really connect with their newborns. But they also haven\u2019t had the usual support that rallies around new parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike you want your mom and your friends and your siblings to hold your new baby. But you\u2019re terrified your baby might get COVID.,\u201d McGough explains.<\/p>\n

Carly Latcham is a local who gave birth to Patrick at the end of March and says no family saw him in person for the first two months. So, for the most part, it was just her and her husband, also named Patrick, taking care of their new child.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the beginning it was isolating,\u201d Latcham says. \u201cI remember getting in my car to go to the grocery store for the first time. Patrick stayed home with the baby, and I was giddy.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, McGough says one other consequence of the pandemic has been an unexpected chance for dads to bond with their newborns. Because, she points, most men in the area don\u2019t get paternity leave. That\u2019s what happened with Carly and her husband. They thought he would only get two weeks off. Instead, he got two months.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got to just the three of us stay home and really sort of just\u2014I don\u2019t even know how to describe it,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was just nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, like parenthood, COVID has been a mixed bag for newer parents. And a pandemic is a steep price to pay to be with your child. But babies also have this ability to make you forget everything. <\/p>\n

During shelter in place at the start of the pandemic, McGough was doing home visits in PPE to check on newborns so parents didn\u2019t have to go to the med center. She says during those visits, the overwhelming sense she got with those families was a feeling of calm.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if they\u2019re experiencing anxiety about their new baby, they\u2019re in this little bubble of joy where they\u2019re just so engulfed in being new parents and tending to their new babies and learning how to be in this new role that it almost seems like COVID takes back burner,\u201d McGough says.<\/p>\n

Of course, the experience is entirely different for parents of older kids. Parents of the youngest kids don\u2019t have to worry about schooling and education. Or teenager stuff. But, with a new baby and a pandemic, they\u2019re learning to live in a world that\u2019s changed\u2014two times over. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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