EBB 121 - COVID-19 and Pregnancy

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I cover all the evidence to date on COVID-19 and pregnancy.

This is an uncertain time and many are feeling a range of emotions. Our goal remains the same: to provide you with friendly, accessible, evidence based information so that you can make informed decisions. During a global pandemic, our goal is more important than ever.

I've been working nonstop with Evidence Based Birth Research Editor Anna Bertone, MPH, to stay abreast of new research that comes out nearly every day about COVID-19. This podcast covers the latest as of March 23, 2020.

All Evidence Based Birth research findings and updates on COVID-19 can be found here. Other resources on this page include our virtual doula directory, information on our Virtual Childbirth Class, a full length webinar on this topic, and more.

For more information and news about Evidence Based Birth®, visit www.ebbirth.com. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. Ready to get involved? Check out our Professional membership (including scholarship options) and our Instructor program. Find an EBB Instructor here, and click here to learn more about the Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, on today's podcast, I'd like to reserve this time to talk about the research evidence on COVID-19 and pregnancy,
0:07.6	the issues that pregnant families will be facing over the next few months, and the response from evidence-based birth.
0:14.0	Welcome to the Evidence-based birth podcast.
0:20.0	My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence
0:24.9	Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based
0:29.3	information into the hands of families and professionals around the world.
0:34.0	As a reminder this information is not medical advice.
0:37.0	See EB Birth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:49.0	Hi everyone, thank you for tuning in to this week's episode of the Evidence Space Birth Podcast. Today we're going to focus in on the emerging research evidence on COVID-19 and pregnancy,
0:55.8	its implications for those who will be giving birth soon, and the resources and the plan that
1:00.5	we are implementing at evidence-based birth to do our part for our
1:03.8	community. This week we hosted a live public webinar. We had nearly 6,000
1:09.7	people register for the webinar. We only had 500 seats because that's about the limit to
1:14.4	our ability to moderate the chat room with 500 people and the remaining people
1:19.4	watched the video on Facebook live. We had a thousand people watching it live in real time on
1:25.2	Facebook and since then the webinar has been watched by 40,000 people. We've never
1:30.8	had this level of interest before in the research on any given subject,
1:35.0	but it makes sense because we're living in unprecedented times.
1:39.0	There's a lot of uncertainty, there's a lot of fear, there's even a lot of panic.
1:43.8	When I ask people who are attending the webinar, how anxious they felt on a scale of zero to five,
1:48.6	the majority of people had an anxiety level of three, four, or five, including myself. The pandemic that is global will
1:55.8	touch all of our lives in some way. All of us will probably know someone who is
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