Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally. Starting now, I'm Dr. Aviva Ram with Natural MD radio bringing you episode 124, COVID-19, pregnancy and breastfeeding, what we know is reassuring.

During pregnancy, we're fiercely protective of our health and feel especially

responsible for everything we do and expose ourselves and baby too. If you're

pregnant naturally you're concerned about COVID-19 for your own health and your babies,

who wouldn't be. We're inundated with an overwhelming awareness of how fast it's spreading.

There's a lot of uncertainty about the infection, there are

lockdowns, quarantines, it's like living in a science fiction movie, but it's

really happening. While a thorough search of the medical literature and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

website for data on COVID-19 and pregnancy shows just how very little is known at this time about the impact of COVID-19 on pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes and newborns.

The good news is that what we do know so far and we're a good several months into the outbreak is

generally reassuring about the risks of this infection to otherwise healthy

women who are pregnant and their babies. Let's look at the biggest areas of concern together,

who might be at higher risk,

how to prevent COVID-19 and SARS COVID-2 exposure,

and what to do if you should contract it.

First I want to make something really clear. The wild efforts going on right now to

contain this virus doesn't mean it's a horrible deadly virus to most people.

We're containing it so that those who are at risk have reduced likelihood of

exposure from the rest of us, who will just act as as

as as a cold. Aggressive containment is an appropriate public

health measure to stop the spread of something moving fast.

We can all do our part in that for the sake of the few who might get really, really sick.

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