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Covid Babies: how pandemic health measures undermined pregnancy, birth and early parenting
As the Covid-19 pandemic took hold, pregnancy and maternity services underwent a rapid transformation in an attempt to deal with transmission of the virus and the growing pressure on healthcare services. In a climate of fear, and with many unknowns about the virus and the risks to pregnant women and their babies, restrictions and hastily implemented policies often overrode years of work to improve maternity care, with devastating consequences for new families.
Covid Babies: how pandemic health measures undermined pregnancy, birth and early parenting considers how policies put in place to protect us from the immediate threat of the virus ultimately had the unintended consequence of harming many who needed maternity and postnatal care. It highlights how hard-won gains, even when supported by overwhelming evidence, can be lost at the drop of a hat in a crisis.
By learning the lessons of the pandemic – through close examination of the evidence base that is now emerging – Amy Brown shows how we can begin to move forward and unravel what has gone wrong. This is no easy task when our health services continue to face significant challenges, but one that is necessary to ensure the health and wellbeing of our new families and those who care for them.
Covid Babies: how pandemic health measures undermined pregnancy, birth and early parenting considers how policies put in place to protect us from the immediate threat of the virus ultimately had the unintended consequence of harming many who needed maternity and postnatal care. It highlights how hard-won gains, even when supported by overwhelming evidence, can be lost at the drop of a hat in a crisis.
By learning the lessons of the pandemic – through close examination of the evidence base that is now emerging – Amy Brown shows how we can begin to move forward and unravel what has gone wrong. This is no easy task when our health services continue to face significant challenges, but one that is necessary to ensure the health and wellbeing of our new families and those who care for them.
- GenresNonfictionParenting
224 pages, Paperback
Published November 11, 2021
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January 15, 2022
This book will probably be more interesting in 20 years as a historic analysis of what this time was like for new parents. Right now it just reminded me of feeling awful. I also found the British-centered approach funny since the author referred to my hometown of Philadelphia as a “state” in America 😂
January 13, 2022
Interesting read, our experience of pregnancy late in the pandemic didn't include a lot of the struggles described in the book, we got relatively lucky with our experiences with the virtual supports and classes.
Can see how things could have been much more difficult with different circumstances
Can see how things could have been much more difficult with different circumstances
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