Because of Corona
Rachel (33) had to give birth to her premature twins alone
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In the pandemic, many women have to give birth to their child without their partner – Rachel (33) had a particularly fat baby.
Anyone who has to bear their baby alone feels terribly lost. All mothers know how important it is to have someone you trust – ideally the father of a child – with you when the baby is born. But during the pandemic, women in the delivery room often have to do without the important support they need.
Both Covid tests were ambiguous
The British Rachel McCartney (33) had to experience this and had it four times difficult: She gave birth to twins who were born too early, and her husband David was not allowed to be there. Baby Ellis couldn't eat them until six days after she was born.
The reason: Both Covid-19 tests that were carried out in the hospital on the heavily pregnant woman did not produce any clear results. Therefore, she was treated as if she were infected with the virus.
Rachel was isolated because she was considered infectious
The mother of two young daughters (2 and 4) was in their 34th week when she drove to the hospital because the babies no longer moved in their wombs as usual. But the Covid-19 test that was carried out on her there did not produce a clear result – neither did a second test.
The result: Nobody was allowed to come with her to the maternity ward and nobody was allowed to visit her: not David, but neither her mother nor her sister, because it was unclear whether Rachel was infectious or not.
Emotional roller coaster ride
To make matters worse, Rachel was constantly receiving contradicting information in the hospital: First it was said that the birth had to be initiated, then she was told that it would be too dangerous because the heart of one of the babies was beating too slowly – you now have to have a caesarean section do. When the time came, another doctor told her that she could give birth without a caesarean section without any problems. The operation was canceled and the birth started. An emotional roller coaster ride for Rachel. "I was very afraid of a caesarean section anyway, but to have to experience it alone, without someone to support me, was absolutely terrible for me, and I was really scared," she told Mail Online.
She didn't meet baby Ellis until six days after she was born
Immediately after the birth, her newborn son Ellis had to go to the premature baby ward because he had difficulty breathing. Rachel could only look at him briefly before he was taken away. Although she was allowed to see him from time to time via a video app, she suffered greatly from the fact that her newborn baby was without his parents. She was only allowed to see him six days later.
The family is now at home. Rachel said: 'We are slowly trying to find a kind of normality and routine that doesn't mean sitting on the sofa all day breastfeeding.' Just normal baby life – luckily!
Sources used: Daily Online