Late December 2019, my husband and I joyfully found out I was pregnant with our first child. It was the day before we’d be traveling to visit our families for the holidays and we were over the moon to share the news with our closest relatives over Christmas and the New Year. Looking back now, I feel a sense of naiveté with our only stressor at the time being: Are we sure it’s not too early to share the news?

Little did we know a novel coronavirus had mutated and made the fateful leap to humans, and as a result a worldwide pandemic was on its way to the US.