How birth is changing in the age of coronavirus

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Coronavirus is throwing many birth plans up in the air and leading some health trusts to increase home births.

The coronavirus crisis is throwing many pregnant women's birth plans up in the air and leading some health trusts to increase home births.

, with the caption"three generations of social distancing", has since collected nearly 730,000 likes.For some pregnant women it has opened up the prospect of having to give birth alone, or of being unable to have the Caesarean section they were hoping for. For others it's a case of not being able to have the baby in a midwife-led birth centre, but in a hospital instead - or possibly even at home.

Nikki worried that her son's first sight of the world would be disturbing."I thought, when Stanley comes out he is going to be faced with mummy and daddy with surgical masks on," she says. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists says"pregnant women do not appear to be more likely to be seriously unwell than other healthy adults if they develop the new coronavirus".

At the same time, in parts of the country women have been told that the home births they were planning may no longer be possible because of a shortage of midwives - home births require two to be present at all times - or ambulances. An ambulance must always be available in case something goes wrong and the woman has to be taken to hospital.

 

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