Hello, it's Brooke de Vard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty podcast.

Today's episode is all about pregnancy and pregnancy is always a wonderful time. But today's guest

Hannah Brothman and I we've had the shared and unique experience of being pregnant

during this pandemic and being pregnant during a pandemic.

And being pregnant during a pandemic,

there are some things about it that are actually great,

but there are inevitable challenges.

I'd say the first one that I realized very quickly is that partners

couldn't come with you into your ultrasound. So my husband has not been able to

join me for all of my maternal fetal imaging scans where you get to basically see the baby

and hear the heart beat. Some hospitals are loosening up restrictions, but I've been alone for

a lot of those appointments and I've either had to call

him on speaker phone or face time him in, but those are things that you usually feel like you want your

partner right there with you. And then I think especially early on, thinking back to March, I was really

nervous about just even going into a hospital where people are sick. This is at

the peak of COVID when we really didn't know what was going on.

It's just kind of a little bit scary going into these medical spaces, but now all of those

fears have subsided and I know that hospitals are actually some of the safest places you can be

because they're really adhering to strict guidelines.

Another challenge being pregnant during a pandemic, it's hard to plan kind of big gatherings. You know, baby showers look very different. I did my baby shower

outdoors in Central Park with a very small group of friends and it was beautiful and lovely, but I think a lot of people look forward to doing their baby shower.

They don't want to do a baby shower on Zoom.

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