Birth in a pandemic: 'You are stronger than you think' (BBC News)

Karen Clemmer 4/1/209:57 AM

By Kirstie Brewer, April 1, 2020 for BBC News

The coronavirus crisis is throwing many pregnant women's birth plans up in the air and leading some health trusts to increase home births.

The image captured hearts on social media 10 days ago. Faolán, Gaelic for "little wolf", was born in Drogheda in Ireland on Saturday 14 March and a few days later his grandfather dropped round to see him - through the window. He stayed for 10 minutes, gazing at his first grandchild.

It was hard to have family so close and yet separated by a pane of glass when they wanted more than anything to hold Faolán, says his mother, Emma Dillon Gallagher, who went into labour before Ireland's lockdown and emerged from hospital into a different world.

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