Pregnancy, babies and ISOLATION

These new mums and mums-to-be should be experiencing great joy, but instead, they’re struggling with lockdown…

- HAYLEY MINN

Usually, women who are becoming parents for the first time are experiencing the most exciting time of their lives. But due to the coronavirus pandemic, this has all changed for new mums.

The ongoing crisis has meant that expectant fathers can’t be in the hospital for scans, and new parents are raising their babies without the help of their extended family and friends. And celebs are no different…

COPING WITH PREGNANCY

Sheridan Smith and her fiancé Jamie Horn welcomed a little boy recently, but before giving birth, the actress confessed that she was fed up with being pregnant, saying, ‘Not sure I can get much bigger.’ And for Sheridan, lockdown meant that she wasn’t able to attend as many ultrasounds as she would have liked.

Sharing a 3D scan of her son on Instagram, she previously revealed, ‘I’ve just been told that I won’t see this little face for a while now because of lockdown, so thought I’d share his beautiful chubby chops with you guys to cheer me up.’