Baby Mama

Y&R's Elizabeth Hendrickson Shares The Joys Of First-Time Motherhood

- DEVIN OWENS

Bringing a baby into the world is already an emotional event, but for Elizabeth Hendrickson, who welcomed daughter Josephine on March 27, there was a lot more drama involved, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Before fathers would be banned from the delivery room as a safety measure, the actress and her hubby, Rob Meder, opted to induce labor, but even that took careful planning. “I had to wait until I passed 14 days in quarantine because I had worked with Greg [Rikaart, Kevin] and he was later diagnosed [with the coronavirus],” Hendrickson explains. “On the 15th day, I was induced. When I went into active labor, I was in the most excruciating pain and I was like, ‘Just get me the drugs!’ ”

After an epidural was administered, it was showtime. “I was so scared what giving birth was going to be like, and in the middle of me pushing, I looked at the nurse and said, ‘You know, this really isn’t that bad. This is the coolest thing ever,’ Hendrickson chuckles. “Granted, I was on drugs so I couldn’t feel everything, but it really is the wildest and the most powerful thing you could possibly experience. I pushed her out in an hour and there she was!”