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Tracy Thomas has two boys. They're identical twins, five years old. They were born premature at the end of 2019, just before the pandemic.

Obviously, a respiratory pandemic is terrifying for everybody, but especially someone who's got teeny tiny humans who have had breathing problems.

So I was very panicked. And then to add to that,

my husband is a physician. Tracy's husband is an OBGYN. He works in the hospital where, of course,

there was an overflow of COVID patients. Tracy was worried about her husband getting COVID and worried that he might expose the babies.

So she packed herself and the boys up and moved in with her brother and sister-in-law, who were newlyweds.

Tracy lived apart from her husband for six weeks, breastfeeding, pumping, changing diapers, and doom-scrolling, spiraling when she thought about what could happen if he got sick. This fear Tracy was living with probably sounds familiar to you.

Whether or not you had a frontline worker in your family, I think most parents, especially parents of

babies, were afraid of COVID exposure in 2020. But that year, Tracy

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