Hey, this is Stephen Jackson, one of the Curious City producers. We're back with another

episode of Life Interrupted. Audio snapshots of daily life under Illinois's stay-at-home order.

Any parent will tell you, a first pregnancy is filled with a lot of excitement, but also anxiety.

And today we meet a woman who's about to deliver her baby any day now,

in the midst of a global pandemic.

My name is Tamara Frankel.

I'm 39 weeks pregnant.

How am I feeling? I kind of run the range between kind of really intense panic and excitement. I mean, it's exciting something that we've been waiting for for a long time. So there's a lot of anticipation, that's for sure.

When I found it, I was pregnant.

Well, when you're doing IVF, everything is very scheduled.

So we were waiting for a call from the doctor, and we were supposed to go to a baseball game that day.

And I remember they called us.

And even without the nurse saying anything specific, like I could just hear in her voice. It was like, this is going to be a happy phone call.

And it was. And then we went to the Cobb game. And I remember there was like some birthday

tribute on the Jumbochon to like maybe someone's kid or

I don't know something and I just like started crying and I was like okay guess I'm pregnant

for real now that I'm really close to the end of the pregnancy, I am going in every week for an exam.

The office is really quiet.

Like there are not many patients there.

They take my temperature.

They ask me if I have any symptoms.

If I've been in contact with anyone who's

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